Syslinux - Aug 2013 - build for ARM (rpi)

On Aug 5, 2013 1:33 PM, "Geert Stappers" <stappers at
stappers.nl> wrote:
>
> Op 2013-08-05 om 16:11 schreef Dash Four:
> > Geert Stappers wrote:
> > >Op 2013-08-05 om 12:29 schreef Dash Four:
> > >>Well, I am preparing the image using livecd-creator to install
all
> > >>the packages. This never completes, however, because there is
a
> > >>dependency on the syslinux package, which is never satisfied
since I
> > >>can't build that package.
> > >>
> > >>The actual boot loader is unlikely to be used at all, since
> > >>RaspberryPi has its own way of booting up (it relies on its
GPU):
> > >>when powered up, *only* the GPU is active, which reads certain
files
> > >>on the first partition (config.txt, cmdline.txt to name just a
few),
> > >>parses the options specified in those boot up files, then it
brings
> > >>the CPU up, loads the kernel image from the same partition and
> > >>transfers control over.
> > >>
> > >>So, since my only purpose of using syslinux is to satisfy the
> > >>dependencies when creating the actual image (I then extract
the
> > >>kernel/initramfs images and use the root system), I only need
> > >>syslinux to "fool" livecd-creator that I have that
package
> > >>installed, but I am unable to do that at present since I
can't build
> > >>the actual package (rpm), hence my initial query.
> > >
> > >Welcome to the world outside of x86
> > What's that supposed to mean?
>
> As it says 'Welcome to the world outside of x86'
>
> It is a "Welcome", so a friendly greeting.
> And it implies that you are entering a new world.
>
> Feel comfortable, you are about to learn more about your known (x86 only)
world
> by discovering a new world, this time the Rpi world. You will see
> different bootloaders, cross-compilers, executable formats.
>
>
> Back to the original topic:
>
>   Reconsider the (hard??) dependency on Syslinux by
"livecd-creator".
Looks like open source to me.  Probably a bunch of python scripts. Why not
modify it for your use? Even better, figure out its command-line/configs
and do it modularly and contribute it?
> Or even to use something else as a "CD creator"
Or build creator.

--Gene

Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2013 1:33 PM, "Geert Stappers" <stappers at
stappers.nl> wrote:
>   
>> Op 2013-08-05 om 16:11 schreef Dash Four:
>>
>>
>> Back to the original topic:
>>
>>   Reconsider the (hard??) dependency on Syslinux by
"livecd-creator".
>>     
>
> Looks like open source to me.  Probably a bunch of python scripts. Why not
> modify it for your use? Even better, figure out its command-line/configs
> and do it modularly and contribute it?
>   
Livecd-creator is part of the livecd-tools package, which is indeed open 
source and although it contains python scripts, it is arch-dependent. If 
I had the time to study every little bit of software which gives me 
problems in order to "modify" it, I won't have time to do anything
else,
so that simply isn't going to happen.
>> Or even to use something else as a "CD creator"
>>     
>
> Or build creator.
>   
As if that's going to happen.

On Aug 5, 2013 5:43 PM, "Dash Four" <mr.dash.four at
googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2013 1:33 PM, "Geert Stappers" <stappers at
stappers.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Op 2013-08-05 om 16:11 schreef Dash Four:
>>>
>>>
>>> Back to the original topic:
>>>
>>>   Reconsider the (hard??) dependency on Syslinux by
"livecd-creator".
>>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like open source to me.  Probably a bunch of python scripts. Why
not
>> modify it for your use? Even better, figure out its
command-line/configs
>> and do it modularly and contribute it?
>>
>
> Livecd-creator is part of the livecd-tools package, which is indeed open
source and although it contains python scripts, it is arch-dependent. If I
had the time to study every little bit of software which gives me problems
in order to "modify" it, I won't have time to do anything else, so
that
simply isn't going to happen.
>
>
>>> Or even to use something else as a "CD creator"
>>>
>>
>>
>> Or build creator.
>>
>
> As if that's going to happen.
System overconstrained.

--Gene