lpxelinux is like pxelinux, except it allows retrieving the files for
the kernel (with the KERNEL directive) and initrd (the path to initrd=
in the APPEND directive) from FTP or HTTP, rather than just from TFTP.
Using HTTP or FTP is musch faster than TFTP, so the boot time for big
kernels or big initrds is much shorter than with TFTP.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
[Julien: fix typo in commit title]
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Change all Kconfig entries for packages in the "Bootloaders" menu to
submenus.
Currently many bootloaders and firmwares in this menu use a 'config'
keyword and thus menuconfig presents their sub-options as a flat list in
the same menu. This is not very convenient as some have a lot of
sub-options, and in (more and more common) configurations with multiple
such packages enabled the menuconfig screen becomes very crowded. Moreover
options of 'string' type don't have a visible indentation when their value
exceeds a few characters, thus making it visually hard to grasp which
package the various options belong to.
Non-bootloader packages having suboptions usually use a 'menuconfig'
keywork to have sub-options in a submenu. Do the same for packages in the
"Bootloaders" menu which have more than one sub-option.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Frager <neal.frager@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
The BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_BINUTILS_BUG_19615 and
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_BINUTILS_BUG_20006 options were last selected by the
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_AMD64 toolchain, but this
toolchain has been removed as part of commit
d87e114a8f in August 2020.
It's time to get rid of those two options that are never enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This will be used in packages that depend on gnu-efi, and we take this
opportunity to propagate this dependency where it was missing in
gummiboot and syslinux. In practice, it was not a problem because
gummiboot and syslinux are only available on i386 and x86-64, which is
a subset of the architectures supported by gnu-efi.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.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>
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>
