[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.30-pre1 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> 
> I don't have a URL, if that's what you mean. But, at work, when playing
> with using VESA framebuffers for our splash screen, when testing on the
> rather large inventory of hardware we have, we saw trends forming.
> 
> 1) No new nVidia card seems to support VESA
> 2) Some of the ATI PCIe do funny things with palettes. I suspect this
>    means deprecation/neglect.
> 3) Talking with folks at Intel about the new modesetting branch of the
>    i810 driver, it seems pretty clear that they're removing the legacy
>    BIOS calls in upcoming chipsets. AFAIK, these are required for VESA.
> 
> So, VESA's future looks grim. :(
> 

Some of this doesn't match my experience and/or doesn't matter, but yes, 
if VBE support is dropped, then obviously there isn't any way to support 
fancy splash screens at all, and we'll fall back to plain VGA and/or 
text mode.

	-hpa