[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Nov 30 23:22:32 PST 2003


It seems that quite a bit of stuff built up very quickly after the 2.07 
release:

Changes from 2.07 to 2.08-pre6:
         * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout
           to have a different action than just pressing Enter.
         * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom
           command to be executed in case the kernel image is not found.
         * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing.  APPEND
           now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.
         * PXELINUX: Poll for ARP requests while sitting at the
           prompt.  This makes some boot servers a lot less unhappy.
         * PXELINUX: Actually free sockets when we get a failure
           (including file not found.)  This bug would cause us to run
           out of sockets and thus "go deaf" after a while.
         * MEMDISK: Add an API to query for the existence of MEMDISK.
         * SYSLINUX: Fix loading boot sectors (.bs/.bss) from floppy
           disk.
         * .c32 is now one of the extensions searched for
           automatically.

I have gotten one feature request to have PXELINUX support some kind of 
server+path syntax (i.e. something like 192.0.2.69:/path/file); I'm not 
sure if it's better to move -pre6 to release candidate status and hold 
off on that one (it's a reasonably major change of the internals) or if 
I should implement it and expect a few more prereleases before final 2.08.

Also, anything else for 2.08 (unfixed bugs or wanted features) please 
speak up now...

	-hpa




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