[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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