[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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