[syslinux] Domain-specific HLT when idle

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> PS If we had some memory to write to (VPD?) we could automate (lua ?)
> and perform the different steps (and reboots) we have to do (after a
> small timeout) and that would help, but not in all use-cases either.
> 

We have the ADV for disk-based variations; it would be possible to use
server-side storage for PXELINUX (hacky, but...); ISOLINUX is really
hard, though.  I have looked into VPD and some of those things, but it
looks hard to find something that will not have bad failure modes...
there is that bloody reliability thing again.

	-hpa

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