[syslinux] where to swap
Ady Ady
ady-sf at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 14 07:20:07 PDT 2017
>
> > And meanwhile at the more central git repository.
> >
> > Thank you Gene.
> >
>
>
> The following two commits:
>
> _
> mbr/isohdpfx.S: correct stack for heads/sectors; revert
>
> 32c09027423f61c305e2423e52f5f69ecad8e2c0
>
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/?id=32c09027423f61c305
> e2423e52f5f69ecad8e2c0
>
> _
> mbr/isohdpfx.S: Clear CX on INT 13h AH 41h failure
>
> 8739e2ff9ba3f92652c8df846924fd00e1ce2753
>
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/?id=8739e2ff9ba3f92652
> c8df846924fd00e1ce2753
>
>
> were recently applied to the Syslinux git Master Head.
>
>
> Their respective two patches:
>
>
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/patch/?id=32c09027423f61c305e
> 2423e52f5f69ecad8e2c0
>
>
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/patch/?id=8739e2ff9ba3f92652c
> 8df846924fd00e1ce2753
>
> can also be applied cleanly to the 'syslinux-4.xx' branch.
>
>
> Considering the following facts:
>
> _ the above two patches have more (potential) impact on older computers
> (than on newer ones);
>
> _ the 'syslinux-4.xx' branch is being used by many active (Linux)
> distributions, such as Slackware, SUSE, RHEL and their derivatives
> (e.g. Salix, OpenSUSE, Centos, Oracle, Scientific...) among many
> others;
>
>
> I would like to request for the aforementioned two patches to be also
> applied
> to the 'syslinux-4.xx' branch in the official Syslinux git
> repositories.
>
> TIA,
> Ady.
Is there any reason not to apply this to 'syslinux-4.xx'? I would
really like to know.
TIA,
Ady.
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