[syslinux] Comboot Menu

[ganapathy murali krishnan]

Some comboot questions:

How does one allocate memory? Is there a BIOS interrupt to allocate memory?

Can the comboot api also include an interrupt to allocate some memory?

I presume a .COM file can still access memory outside its 64K segment, 
using ES and FS?

The simple menu system is working fine as a .COM file and hard coded 
menu entries. Need some memory allocation scheme if I read this stuff
from a file and if I have to suport submenu's and so forth.

- Murali

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
> 
>>OK. For now, I will hard code the menu entries in a variable and worry
>>about reading files for later.
>>
>>The only thing I will be using from the C library is printf, that too
>>only for debugging. All print statements will happen through appropriate
>>BIOS calls. All debugging prints will happen through printf. Once I am
>>done, removing the printf statements will be trivial.
>>
>>Is there any comboot program which reads files out there? Then I dont
>>have to re-invent the wheel.
>>
> 
> 
> There is a simple demo in the samples directory.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
>