[syslinux] Fair warning regarding the future of the COM32 format

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tim Deegan wrote:
>> I just want to give everyone a heads-up that I'm considering removing 
>> support for COM32 in favour of relocatable (-fPIC) ELF files, or some 
>> other relocatable format.  This would allow one "ELFCOM" file to call 
>> out to another, and then return.
>>
>> Part of the idea here is to run the main syslinux UI and probably the 
>> filesystem drivers in "ELFCOM" code, which doesn't work too well with 
>> everything being statically linked to a fixed address.
> 
> That sounds great!  What kind of support will there be for dynamically
> allocating memory when multiple ELFCOM modules are loaded?  I'm thinking
> of the multiboot loader, which needs to allocate potentially quite large
> amounts of memory and be sure they will be safe from other modules.
> 

Probably just high water mark/low water mark.

	-hpa