Since [1] syslinux is built with the target toolchain in order to
properly build with gnu-efi package. But toolchains built with
binutils 2.26 break the syslinux legacy-BIOS build as reported at [2],
due to binutils bug #19615.
Thanks to Benoît Allard for the investigation and the link to the
binutils bug [3].
[1] 6e432d5ecb
[2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2017-July/196253.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19615
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
Cc: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Until now, the host toolchain was used to build syslinux, as it was
not possible to build a 32-bit syslinux with a x86-64 toolchain.
However, syslinux requires gnu-efi, and gnu-efi is built using the
target toolchain. Mixing different toolchains doesn't work well, so
this commit changes the syslinux package to use the target toolchain
for syslinux as well. This is made possible by patches
0003-Fix-ldlinux.elf-Not-enough-room-for-program-headers-.patch and
0004-memdisk-Force-ld-output-format-to-32-bits.patch.
Since syslinux also contains some utilities that have to run on the
host, those have to continue being built with the host toolchain,
which requires patch 0005-utils-Use-the-host-toolchain-to-build.patch.
Patch 0006-lzo-Use-the-host-toolchain-for-prepcore.patch is about
building prepcore, another utility with the host toolchain as it is
required at build-time.
This was tested using a Buildroot's built x86_64 toolchain, and
checked that the output binaries are 32-bits. It was tested as well if
they actually boot on hardware.
Signed-off-by: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This becomes handy when building hybrid images that needs to be able
to boot in MBR and GPT mode.
Signed-off-by: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Tested-by: Matt Weber <matt@thewebers.ws>
Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matt@thewebers.ws>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This MBR blob will look for an active partition, and boot the bootcode
present in that partition. This can be used to boot an extlinux-prepared
partition.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Lundquist <lists@zelow.no>
Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
syslinux can now also build an EFI application.
If the target is 64-bit, we build the 64-bit EFI app,
otherwise we build the 32-bit EFI app.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Rewrite the options prompt in preparation to adding a new
type of image to install.
Add help entries to each option, too.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently it is possible to choose either, both or none of
the pxelinux or isolinux images.
But it does not make sense to build none or both, as we need
at least one to boot the target, and the target can not use
more than one.
So, we need one and only one image to be selected at once.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Lundquist <thomasez@redpill-linpro.com>
Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The pxelinux and isolionux images are 32-bit binaries, so we need a
compiler that can generate them (ie. a compiler that understands -m32).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Tested-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
In the Config.in file of package foo, it often happens that there are other
symbols besides BR2_PACKAGE_FOO. Typically, these symbols only make sense
when foo itself is enabled. There are two ways to express this: with
depends on BR2_PACKAGE_FOO
in each extra symbol, or with
if BR2_PACKAGE_FOO
...
endif
around the entire set of extra symbols.
The if/endif approach avoids the repetition of 'depends on' statements on
multiple symbols, so this is clearly preferred. But even when there is only
one extra symbol, if/endif is a more logical choice:
- it is future-proof for when extra symbols are added
- it allows to have just one strategy instead of two (less confusion)
This patch modifies the Config.in files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Moreover, the installation of pxelinux and/or isolinux is now handled
as suboptions, like we traditionally do for other packages. This allows
to have a single option (BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX) that enables the
syslinux package.
[Peter: drop basename in install step]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
