From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:33:16 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Add syslinux installer host package In-Reply-To: <20181111150652.17459-2-alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com> References: <20181111150652.17459-1-alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com> <20181111150652.17459-2-alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20181111213316.18f86c81@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, Thanks for this contribution! I'm adding Carlos Santos, who also uses syslinux. On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:06:47 +0100, Alexander Sverdlin wrote: > Add host installer for syslinux bootloader which allows to pre-install > syslinux in the generated firmware images. BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT > can do something like this: > > ${HOST_DIR}/usr/bin/syslinux -d /syslinux/ -i ${IMGFILE} > > if the rest of syslinux is installed under /syslinux inside the firmware > image. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin > --- > package/Config.in.host | 1 + > package/syslinux-installer/Config.in.host | 7 +++++++ > package/syslinux-installer/syslinux.mk | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Instead of making a separate package for this, what about adding a host variant of the existing syslinux package ? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com