[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.10 released

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Wed Aug 24 15:14:32 PDT 2005


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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:37:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Changes in 3.10:
>         * gcc 4.0.1 compilation fixes.
>         * Add support for querying the PCI BIOS in libcom32
>           (used by ethersel et al.)
>         * Fix PCI handing (ethersel etc) on several old chipsets (and
>           VMWare.)
>         * Try to deal with systems with broken EBIOS.
>         * New API call to do "localboot".
>         * New API call to query features.
>         * New API call to run kernel image, a lower-level call than
>           "run command".  See comboot.doc.
>         * Fix for bug in EBIOS code discovered by Arwin Vosselman.
>         * NOESCAPE security fix.
>         * Comments are now recognized even without a space following #.
>         * Fix incorrect handling of mixes of entries with and without
>           MENU PASSWD.
>         * The idle API call now harmlessly returns failure if it is a
>           no-op.  That way the caller can decide whether or not to
>           bother invoking it again.
>         * Temporarily disable the idle API call on PXELINUX, due to
>           some platforms on which the idle API call seems to hang; this
>           problem has not yet been debugged.
>         * MEMDISK: the handling of DOSEMU-headered images was broken;
>           fix it.
>         * EXTLINUX: symlinks are now supported.

COOL!

>         * Simple menu system: N and P now work correctly as hotkeys.
>         * MEMDISK: more BIOS bug workarounds.
> 
> Begin3
> Title:          syslinux
> Version:        3.10
> Entered-date:   2005-08-24


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