[syslinux] Gfxboot COMBOOT module vs Ubuntu patches

[Steffen Winterfeldt]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
>> 
>> I will no longer maintain the original patch set against syslinux. So 3.63
>> will be the last version as far as I'm concerned.
>> 
>> Instead, use Sebastians gfxboot COM module.
>> 
>> I'm currently looking into adding the missing functions. Which will
>> probably end into a patch adding 3 comboot api calls: chdir [done], mount
>> (for media changes) [done], and setting some callback function to get a
>> progress bar [wip].
>> 
>
> It's probably worth me putting in a strong warning here... Syslinux 4 will 
> have dramatically different management of high memory.  COM32 in its current 
> form will no longer exist, instead it will be replaced with ELF loadable 
> modules, and an always-on arena memory manager.
>
> The current load_high will not exist, instead the code that will do kernel 
> loading is going to be the code that currently is implemented as linux.c32.

This is probably not that dramatic. For one reason or another I'm considering
a full C-rewrite right now. That hopefully makes integration easier.


Steffen