From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:38:18 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Interest in upgrading syslinux to 5.x? In-Reply-To: References: <2F83768108B8464BAD971EB5BCDBE1E5@beraninstruments.com.local> Message-ID: <514FF0DA.4030105@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 20/03/13 13:29, Will Moore wrote: > It might help to see what Arnout is up to with his grub2 patch which is also > looking at providing a bootloader with host and target tools. See > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/191813/ That patch has been sitting in the freezer :-) As you can see from the corresponding mail thread, there is no convergence about what to call the two variants of a bootloader. It's a bit like gcc: the normal variant builds an installer running on the host, but it includes binary code for the target; the other variant is completely running on the target. Note that for u-boot, the chosen solution is to create a completely separate package uboot-tools for the target. But it's a bit a special case, because mkimage is not an installer. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F