[Buildroot] Interest in upgrading syslinux to 5.x?

Daniel Price daniel.price at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 21:22:15 UTC 2013


Sorry: I guess I should have said " additional changes to make it possible
(optionally) to deliver **more of** syslinux onto the target system".

     -dp

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Daniel Price <daniel.price at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if there is interest in having the syslinux bootloader
> upgraded to the 5.x series.  Right now in buildroot we have 4.05.
>
> I have a 64-bit x86 system wherein there is a requirement that I
> deliver syslinux's utilities and the mbr.bin to the target, and what I
> have found after some experimentation is that syslinux 5.x seems
> better suited to this, and is more amenable to running on a 64-bit x86
> system.
>
> I have a private recipe I'm calling 'syslinux-tgt' which accomplishes
> this for myself, but I was wondering if it makes sense to drive (a) an
> upgrade to 5.x and (b) additional changes to make it possible
> (optionally) to deliver syslinux onto the target system.  Thoughts?
> I'm willing to at least take a first pass at it.
>
>        -dp
>
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