[syslinux] Syslinux direction

Steffen Winterfeldt wfeldt at suse.de
Mon Feb 28 09:26:57 PST 2005


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

> > That was way before com32. But yes, com32 is a step into the right
> > direction.
> > 
> > The point is that you need some hooks into syslinux, basically into the
> > loader for a progress bar and into the error handler for feedback in case
> > things go wrong.
> > 
> 
> Actually you don't; a com32 program is perfectly capable of loading everything
> needed.  Some of the higher-level convenience functions I haven't released
> yet, because of lack of time; I have it working "in the lab" though.

Ok, you can get the progress thing right in com32. But I'm not convinced
comapi_read does something useful on a disk error.

> I really, REALLY do not want to add more stuff into the assembly code.

THAT is something I fully agree with.


Steffen




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