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

From: Andreas Ziegler <br025@umbiko.net>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] boot/syslinux: Bump to 6.04-pre2
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:48:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec78e4b982b6b8b0a3ccc04fc9b70ca5@umbiko.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <auBeTP2NwmLiaDGR@windsurf>

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.

> In any case: thanks a lot for raising your interest in syslinux. If
> both of you could add yourself in DEVELOPERS for boot/syslinux/, it
> would be much appreciated.

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.

Kind regards,
Andreas

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