[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.32-pre7 release candidate

[H. Peter Anvin]

Curtis Doty wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I'm going to promote SYSLINUX 3.32-pre7 to release candidate unless 
>> someone objects, with the intent of releasing 3.32 immediately after 
>> Christmas.  Please let me know if there are problems that should make me 
>> *not* do so, even if you have previously reported them.
>>   
> 
> Testing both pxelinux with 3.31 and 3.32-pre8 on a Dell PowerEdge 1800,
> I notice that if I have:
> 
> DISPLAY menu/benhead.msg
> DEFAULT syslinux/menu.c32
> SAY Enter destruct sequence now, or press <Enter> for a simple menu.
> LABEL cpuid
>         MENU LABEL Identify ^Processor
>         KERNEL syslinux/cpuidtest.c32
> LABEL pxelinux.0
>         MENU LABEL Return To ^Splash Screen
>         MENU DEFAULT
> 
> And in menu/benhead.msg:
>     ^Xmenu/benhead.rle
> 
> And if I select the cpuidtest option from the menu, the output is not
> visible. However, if I remove the leading ^X from benhead.msg above, it
> will be visible.
> 
> Also, possibly related, I've observed that the color of the SAY text
> above is always "borrowed" from the palette of the rle image right above
> it on the screen.

Yes, that's necessary since that's all the hardware can display.  In 
particular, it will always use color 7.

> Lastly, with vesamenu.c32, I *never* see the output of cpuidtest.

The problem is that cpuidtest.c32 writes directly to the screen, without 
verifying that this is safe to do.  Should be easy enough to fix, I hope.

	-hpa