[syslinux] syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback

[H. Peter Anvin]

Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4)
> 
> Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux
> kernel from floppy on the 2 machines.
> Tested with 3 different disquettes that were know to work, boot is reached
> after this very long time.
> Noise from floppy head make think floppy wait approximatly one minute
> between each read.
> 

Actually, what I really want to know is: was this new slowness 
introduced between 3.36-pre2 and 3.36-pre3?

	-hpa