[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.20-pre14 released - RELEASE CANDIDATE

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alexander Heinz wrote:
> 
>>> I have also formally decided to call the final release 3.00 when it's 
>>> ready.  Between code base rewrite + EXTLINUX + libcom32 + simple 
>>> menu, there is plenty of reason to bump the major version number.  
>>> Yes, libcom32 was introduced a little bit ago, but only with the 
>>> simple menu system has it really gotten a shakedown
>>
>>
>>
>> I am grateful to you for implementing the NOESCAPE flag and the new 
>> menu system. Compared to pxegrub pxelinux only lacks one feature that 
>> is important to me: multiple tftp servers.
>> In October you wrote that this was on your short TODO list. Have you 
>> rescheduled this feature for syslinux 4.X?
>>
> 
> It'll probably be in 3.01 or so; at this point I'm not sure if I want to 
> hold up 3.00 for it (although maybe I'll just get inspired and finish it 
> off.)
> 
> It'd be useful to know what exactly is important to you, and preferrably 
> why:
> 
> a) TFTP server directive vs. TFTP server prefix (hostname::path or 
> something);
> b) IP address vs DNS query.
> 

Oh, one more thing: how would you expect this to interact with the "TFTP 
prefix" feature -- i.e. that pxelinux automatically prefixes the 
pathname in which the pxelinux.cfg directory is found, unless otherwise 
directed.

This is my current thinking:

filename
	... load <pathprefix><filename> from default server

::filename
	... load <filename> from default server

ipaddress::filename
	... load <filename> from <ipaddress>

Using :: as the separator to avoid problems with e.g. Windows servers.

	-hpa