Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] boot/syslinux: Bump to 6.04-pre2

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 04:48:51AM +0000, Andreas Ziegler wrote:
> On 2026-10-27 08:19, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 04:54:45AM +0000, Andreas Ziegler wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, there is still interest in this software, and I sadly mourn the
> > > absence
> > > of the don't-delete-host-syslinux patch.
> > 
> > Not sure to understand this one. Could you clarify? Is Alexander's
> > patch dropping some feature that exists today in boot/syslinux/ and
> > that is important for you?
> 
> The v1 of this patch was a series, which contained one additional patch: https://patchwork.buildroot.org/project/buildroot/patch/20260830181907.106154-2-alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com/
> . This unfortunately did not meet the upstream requirement. This change
> would make a messy (and dangerous) installation of syslinux on the build
> machine obsolete.

Which change? Your proposed change at
https://patchwork.buildroot.org/project/buildroot/patch/20260830181907.106154-2-alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com/
? Sorry, I'm still not following you. Could you perhaps bring a bit
more context?

> Last time I did low-level C and assembler programming was during university,
> which is now more than 30 years in the past -- but if it helps keeping
> syslinux active, why not.

All we care is about keeping syslinux active: reacting to build
issues, to new upstream releases, to patches being submitted against
syslinux in Buildroot.

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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