Re: [dev] [OT] software recommendations

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:42:42 +0200

On 7 April 2016 at 20:05, Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> I like SYSLINUX, Lilo was a while goal but that is
> probably great too. I don't know if they can boot
> BSD but if they have their own bootloaders, you can
> chainload.

SYSLINUX is 250k SLOC, of course it targets all kinds of different
boot approaches, but this seems far beyond a real suckless solution.
(just efi64 of SYSLINUX is 11k SLOC for instance).

For sta.li development I'm currently tempting for ELILO which is
14kSLOC and quite maintainable.

-Anselm
Received on Thu Apr 07 2016 - 22:42:42 CEST