[Buildroot] [PATCH 09/12] fs/iso9660: add support for isolinux
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jun 6 01:03:27 UTC 2015
Yann,
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 00:38:56 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> This patch is quite large, and could benefit from being splitted in three:
>
> - first patch introduces the ROOTFS_ISO9660_BOOTLOADER_CONFIG_PATH and
> ROOTFS_ISO9660_BOOT_IMAGE variables
>
> - second patch to introduce the bootloader choice, but with only a
> single entrey 'grub', and the .mk re-organisation (still with only
> grub handling),
>
> - then a third patch adds isolinux support.
>
> That'd make it easier to review...
True, this seems like a good split. I'll work on that.
> Since I'm quite interested in the end-result of this series
> (multi-format bootable images), I can help if you don;t have time. Just
> ping me... ;-)
Actually, your review is arriving at exactly the right time. I'm having
a 10+ hours flight tomorrow, which will be a perfect opportunity to
prepare a v2 of this series.
I did the v1 on the 10+ hours flight to go, so having something to do
on the return trip is great.
> > + $(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(SYSLINUX_DIR)/bios/com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c32 \
> > + $(ROOTFS_ISO9660_TARGET_DIR)/isolinux/ldlinux.c32
>
> syslinux/isolinux already installs isolinux.bin and the .c32 modules in
> $(BINARIES_DIR)/syslinux, so you should probably get them from there,
> rather than cherry-pick from the package dir (in case a later version
> bump moves them, like it did when I last updated the package).
>
> Except ldlinux.c32 is not systematically installed; we should probably
> change that first (what use would we have of a syslinux/isolinux that
> can't load a Linux kernel? :-] ).
True, will change.
> > diff --git a/fs/iso9660/isolinux.cfg b/fs/iso9660/isolinux.cfg
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..2bdf48b
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/fs/iso9660/isolinux.cfg
> > @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> > +default 1
> > +display sample.msg
>
> Where's that file comming from?
>
> Also, there is the possibility for syslinux/isolinux to display
> graphics, too, but it is much more invvolved (but that'd be great!)
The precise reason why there is this leftover "display sample.msg" is
because I tried to get the splash image support of isolinux to work.
I didn't succeed and gave up (no Internet access while flying, so I was
limited to just the isolinux documentation and source code) but forgot
to kill that line. I'll kill it off for now, until someone interested
enough in having a splash image with isolinux works on that.
Thanks again for the review!
Thomas
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