similar to: Initial support for sector size >512

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will

Hello syslinux, Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN or $ extlinux -i file_block Also it can work with something like: $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv or $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv We don't use a new option (I planed to use "-d" but it is already in use), it will check whether the

This is part of some patches to support sectors > 512. Currently I'm able to boot a Ubuntu kernel but seems that mboot is not working for some reason. This patch try to fix first stage of extlinux bootloader but have some problems with ADV Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio at citrix.com> --- dos/syslinux.c | 2 +- extlinux/main.c | 36

On 2016.03.07 03:27, Shao Miller via Syslinux wrote: > - Casting to a uintptr_t is ugly (and not C89, not that Syslinux cares > about that) Yeah, I'd have liked to avoid that too, but some compilers will complain about pointer arithmetic logic, unless you specifically use uintptr_t. But, considering your other very valid point, let me see if I can work something better here, that

From: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphael.scarv at gmail.com> Wrote the documentation below. I think it would be good to push the doc to the wiki as soon as the UFS support gets merged. Unix Fast File System (UFS/FFS) 1/2 on Syslinux - (usage/install) ----- There is a confusion about the name of this file system, then I decided to contact the author who replied: "The name has always been

From: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphael.scarv at gmail.com> Change since v1: * Fix bug on dentry structure (thank you specification; btw, sarcasm), and consequently a bug on ufs_readdir. * Add readlink support (applied tests for symlinks whose destionation path were stored in blk pointers and the file itself). * Several improvements. Wrote the documentation below. I think it would be good to

It's needed to enumerate both UFS1/2 since they have different magic numbers and super block offsets. Besides, UFS2 can be installed in the 0-64k range like BTRFS, whereas UFS1 can't. Signed-off-by: Raphael S.Carvalho <raphael.scarv at gmail.com> --- extlinux/main.c | 71 +++++++++--- extlinux/ufs.h | 26 ++++ extlinux/ufs_fs.h | 307

It's needed to enumerate both UFS1/2 since they have different magic numbers and super block offsets. Besides, UFS2 can be installed in the 0-64k range like BTRFS, whereas UFS1 can't. UFS2 has no cow feature unlike BTRFS. Signed-off-by: Raphael S.Carvalho <raphael.scarv at gmail.com> --- extlinux/main.c | 79 ++++++++++--- extlinux/ufs.h | 26 ++++

Hi Jens, this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a really odd duck in the last years. The prime reason why most people use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to the block_device structure. But it also calls into the rather ill defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the callers. So this adds a new helper to just

This is part of some patches to support sectors > 512. Currently I'm able to boot a Ubuntu kernel but seems that mboot is not working for some reason. This patch try to fix ADV size problem. Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio at citrix.com> --- extlinux/main.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff

Merge btrfs_read_adv and xfs_read_adv into a single generic function ext_read_adv and split ext_write_adv_offset out of ext_write_adv. Use those new functions in rewrite_boot_image and btrfs_install_file where it is actually hardcoded. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cornu <nicolac76 at yahoo.fr> --- extlinux/main.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 55

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cornu <nicolac76 at yahoo.fr> --- extlinux/main.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/extlinux/main.c b/extlinux/main.c index 6871fb1..385b364 100644 --- a/extlinux/main.c +++ b/extlinux/main.c @@ -1415,21 +1415,12 @@ static int open_device(const char *path, struct stat *st, char

Merge installation of ldlinux.c32 from ext2_fat_install_file, btrfs_install_file and xfs_install_file into one function ext_install_ldlinux_c32 Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cornu <nicolac76 at yahoo.fr> --- extlinux/main.c | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) diff --git a/extlinux/main.c b/extlinux/main.c index

devname is put on heap for all cases to avoid memory leak, and ease of use in future as well Signed-off-by: Imran Zaman <imran.zaman at intel.com> --- extlinux/main.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/extlinux/main.c b/extlinux/main.c index 55a1495..b7cdf92 100644 --- a/extlinux/main.c +++ b/extlinux/main.c @@

devname is put on heap for all cases to avoid memory leak, and ease of use in future as well Signed-off-by: Imran Zaman <imran.zaman at intel.com> --- extlinux/main.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/extlinux/main.c b/extlinux/main.c index 55a1495..7bb7443 100644 --- a/extlinux/main.c +++

When I submitted the qcow2 patch for blktap, suggestions came up that the qemu block drivers should be used also for blktap to eliminate the current code duplication in ioemu and blktap. The attached patch adds support for a tap:ioemu pseudo driver. Devices using this driver won''t use tapdisk (containing the code duplication) any more, but will connect to the qemu-dm of the domain. In

Hi, I found a bug in extlinux/main.c. Writing a bootloader on a file mounted via /dev/mapper in Lunix it crashed on me with a segment fault. The bug is here: if (!ioctl(devfd, HDIO_GETGEO, &geo)) { Since we are already called with geo as a pointer the & is wrong as the pointer itself will be overwritten. This works: int get_geometry(int devfd, uint64_t totalbytes, struct

The following changes since commit 868c474546ba68e9e448734e1833f873fd50ec0a: diskstart: Add a pointer to the syslinux_banner to the EPA (2011-04-04 17:40:59 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/pcacjr/syslinux.git syslinux-update-for-hpa Paulo Alcantara (4): libinstaller: implement syslinux_already_installed extlinux: use syslinux_already_installed

In response to Avi's excellent analysis, I've updated virtio as promised (apologies for the delay, travel got in the way). === This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O mechanisms. It will no-doubt need further enhancement. The details of probing the device are left to hypervisor-specific

In response to Avi's excellent analysis, I've updated virtio as promised (apologies for the delay, travel got in the way). === This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O mechanisms. It will no-doubt need further enhancement. The details of probing the device are left to hypervisor-specific