[syslinux] Thoughts About Direction?

[Matt Fleming]

On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 04:32 -0400, Shao Miller wrote:
> If Syslinux [eventually] has multiple FS support, will the Syslinux EFI 
> variant use the EFI FS drivers, the Syslinux FS drivers, or both?  If 
> the answer is "both" and, let's suppose, FAT was provided by both, how 
> would we choose between them?  - Shao

It's actually currently using both, the firmware's vfat driver for the
ADV code in efi/adv.c and the Syslinux vfat code for everything else.
Using the firmware driver for the ADV code is fine because we had to
rewrite the ADV functions for EFI anyway - they don't work the same way
as BIOS. But we wanted to avoid having to rewrite all of the file I/O
code just for EFI.

I think unless someone wants to rip out all the file system code to
create a really small syslinux.efi boot loader, using the existing
Syslinux fs code makes the most sense.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center