[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.30-pre1 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I have pushed out a SYSLINUX 3.30-pre1.  The main difference versus 
>> earlier versions is that this version contains a *preview* of a VESA 
>> graphical menu system (vesamenu.c32); it's used the same way as 
>> menu.c32, with the addition of a few more commands (which can also be 
>> used in menu.c32 in this new version):
> <snip>
> 
> Very cool!
> 
> It's too bad that all the major graphics card vendors are dropping VESA 
> support from their chips. :(
> 

If what you're talking about is the still-very-indefinite move to UGA, 
then this code should be trivially portable to UGA when that time comes.

If EFI ever takes off, the whole syslinux project will have to be 
seriously reconsidered; EFI is a platform as different from the standard 
x86 BIOS as OpenFirmware on a PowerPC.

	-hpa