[syslinux] Thank you for Syslinux 5.00
François Laverdure
city_design at progression.net
Thu Dec 6 13:16:02 PST 2012
Now WOW!
This version actually boots fine on my netbook!
So I want to send all the developers a very warm thank you for releasing
this version.
You guys totally rock!
Cheers!
François
On 06/12/2012 15:20, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Syslinux 5.00 is out in time for the holidays. This release includes a
> lot of changes from 4.06. I've included the NEWS entries below, which
> highlight the major changes.
>
> Lots of assembly code has been rewritten in C, which makes further
> development much easier (and also really helped for the 'firmware'
> abstraction that appears in Syslinux-6.00-pre1). So be on the lookout
> for regressions in this release when compared with 4.0x, though many
> bugs have been hammered out thanks to some excellent testing and
> feedback from various people.
>
> The COMBOOT stuff has been removed and now all modules are ELF objects,
> which allows us to do some neat things with symbols at runtime and
> provides the groundwork for more advanced things in the future.
>
> And we've also now got XFS filesystem support.
>
> Happy hacking.
>
> ---
>
> Changes in 5.00:
> * com32: Switched from the COM32 object format to ELF as it is
> a much more powerful format that allows undefined symbols to
> be resolved at runtime and dynamic loading of module
> dependencies, which means modules now become shared object
> files instead of statically linked binaries - reducing both
> disk space and runtime memory consumption.
> * core: Split non-core functionality into ldlinux.c32, which
> is an ELF module loaded by the core that contains everything
> the core doesn't require to boot the system, e.g. config
> parser, command-line interface, etc.
> * Replaced __intcall() calls with direct function calls now
> that we can resolve undefined symbols at runtime, thanks to
> the ELF object support. Now that we no longer need to go
> through the 16-bit interrupt mechanism we can make full use
> of the 32-bit execution environment. This change required
> reimplementing lots of the 16-bit assembly code from core/
> in C.
> * com32: __com32.cs_bounce is gone now we always run in a
> 32-bit environment once we execute ldlinux.c32.
> * ldlinux: A new "PATH" directive was added to the ldlinux.c32
> config parser that specifies a colon-separated list of
> directories to search when attempting to load modules.
> * ALL: Delete all references to/code for 16-bit COMBOOT files.
> COMBOOT files (.cbt and .com) are no longer supported under
> Syslinux.
>
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