[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] syslinux: add support for host-install

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Wednesday 31 August 2011 10:19:35, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> You don't have the $(eval $(call GENTARGETS,boot,syslinux,host)) line
> anymore, so the HOST_* variables are quite useless no ? This line was
> present in your previous posting.

 Oops!  Messed up rebase, and I didn't think it was necessary to test...  
Patch v3 coming up.

> Also can you comment how this host package is used ? It isn't part of
> the dependencies of any target package, so it doesn't seem to be used
> anywhere (except by manually running "make host-syslinux").

 Indeed, manually running "make host-syslinux" in the script that creates a 
USB image.  I guess the host-grub support that was submitted a couple of days 
ago had the same purpose.


> Not related to your patches directly, but could you elaborate a bit on
> how syslinux is used in practice by giving an example usage. This would
> explain a bit why a host version is needed, how to set up syslinux on
> the target, etc.

 To build a rescue disk that rewrites the disk of the target device.  The idea 
is that the whole thing can be sent as a zip file and the customer just has to 
unzip it to a USB stick and run syslinux (from Windows) and voila, he has a 
rescue USB stick.  The compiled syslinux.exe is taken from the tar file for 
that.  However, I also want to be able to create a rescue disk directly from 
buildroot, hence I want a working host-syslinux.

 FYI the make_rescue script is attached.

 
 Regards,
 Arnout



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