From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:15:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] fs/iso9660: allow building a hybrid ISO image In-Reply-To: <54CFE871.5090902@mind.be> References: <1421697177-12995-1-git-send-email-nrubinstein@aldebaran.com> <54CFE871.5090902@mind.be> Message-ID: <54D0D811.40303@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 02/02/15 22:13, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > On 19/01/15 20:52, No? Rubinstein wrote: >> This adds an option to build an ISO image using ISOLINUX as a >> bootloader, as ISOLINUX provides "isohybrid", an utility that enables >> using an ISO image as a bootable disk image. >> >> Signed-off-by: No? Rubinstein > > Hi No?, > > While you're working on this, there is something else that you may be > interested in doing. > > Currently, the iso image that is generated is not really the root filesystem, > but it contains a cpio image with the real root filesystem. But in fact, there > is no good reason to work that way, and it really complicates the build. > Instead, it would be a lot more logical to create a real iso9660 root filesystem > using the RockRidge extensions. > > That would also allow the iso9660 fs to finally use the ROOTFS_TARGET > infrastructure, removing a lot of cruft. > > > If you're willing to work on this, you can add it as an additional patch to > your series. It's very likely that it will need a couple of review cycles, so be > prepared for that :-) By the way, take a look at these two very old patches by Jerome Sagnole: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/328051/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/328052/ 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