[syslinux] syslinux (pxelinux.0) debug prints

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Wissam Shoukair <wissams at mellanox.com>
wrote:
> Op 2014-05-29 om 06:27 schreef Gene Cumm:
>> On May 29, 2014 5:25 AM, "Wissam Shoukair" <wissams at mellanox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Gene,
>> >
>> > I was wondering how I can set the ???printf??? output to be visible on
the
>> screen? (I???m using syslinux-6.03-pre02)
>>
>> printf () or dprintf ()? You need to watch what functions are available
at
>> the time you want to print. For example, printf isn't available until
>> ldlinux.c32 is loaded.
>>
>> Why not 6.03-pre12?
>>
>
> I have to work with this version???

> Do you have any suggestions?

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 09:50 AM, Wissam Shoukair wrote:
>>
>> I have to work with this version???
>>
>
> That is highly unfortunate, since the version you "have to work with"
> has a number of bugs, many of which have already been fixed.
>
> -hpa

I agree.

The biggest suggestion is to NOT use a pre-release version which has
numerous bugs resolved in later pre-release versions as you are likely to
encounter at least one of them. I believe at least some of these bugs were
carry-overs from 5.0x.

-- 
-Gene