[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: add extlinux.conf support description

Alexander Shiyan eagle.alexander923 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 01:19:38 PDT 2026


Hello Ahmad.

> On 4/16/26 3:45 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923 at gmail.com>
>
> Thanks for adding documentation.
>
> I have been wanting to add bootloader spec support to openembedded-core
> to barebox can be used to boot Beaglebone black images generated by it,
> but with extlinux support in barebox that should work as well.
> I will surely give this a try in the future.
>
> Could I motivate you to add a self test that exercises the parser?
>
> Doesn't have to be anything extensive, see test/self/blspec.c for an
> example. It's basically adding a few configs into the barebox
> environment, calling bootentry_create_from_name() on the directory and
> then running some assertions.

I think this can be done later, so as not to bloat the patch series...



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