[syslinux] [PATCH 0/9] linux/syslinux: support ext2/3/4 device

[Robert Yang]

On 01/06/2015 08:04 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/01/2015 09:05 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>> 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 remove the repo when these patches are
>> reviewed).
>>
>
> In my opinion, linux/syslinux really should just be part of extlinux,
> since it is exactly equivalent to mounting the filesystem, running
> extlinux, and unmounting the filesystem.  That automatically adds
> support for all filesystems.
>
> mtools/syslinux is the one that doesn't require root privileges, and
> where libext2fs belongs.  Ideally the FAT support ought to be
> internalized into a library, too.
>
> The one thing with mtools/syslinux is that some people like to compile
> it for non-Linux platforms (how successfully, I don't know) and so
> ext*fs support should probably be conditionalized.

Thanks for the reply, how about:

1) Add the libext2fs' syslinux to mtools/syslinux
2) The "make" will compile libext2fs by default, and make EXT2FS=0 will disable
    the compile ?

// Robert

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> 	-hpa
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