[syslinux] Comments sought on the graphical menu infrastructure

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I would really appreciate feedback on the graphical menu system and its 
>> infrastructure.  It's not really clear to me that it's what people want; 
>> it seems to me that it makes more sense than gfxboot, for example (C 
>> rather than pseudo-Forth), but I can understand people would disagree.
>>
>> Anyway, the more feedback I get the easier it will be to pick a 
>> direction and a priority for future work, so any comments are appreciated.
> 
> I haven't yet tried configuring the menu, though I've already seen it in
> action.
> 
> I'm wondering if there is some possibility of somehow doing an if/then
> operation.
> 
> The idea would be that if VESA was set successfully, then a variable
> could be passed to the Linux kernel stating that is the case.
> 
> I'm not sure of how useful that would be to others, but perhaps it could
> detect broken VESA on cards before anyone tries to modprobe vesafb. Or
> maybe ISOLINUX would crash equally nicely on these broken machines. I'm
> not sure.
> 

What's probably worse is that it probably works fine in SYSLINUX, and 
would still die probing vesafb, since SYSLINUX use it through real mode 
(even though COM32 runs in protected mode.)

	-hpa