[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.53 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 20 10:01:39 PST 2007


Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> This is a bug fix release; identical to SYSLINUX 3.53-pre6.
>>
>> Changes in 3.53:
>>          * Fix bugs related to the $PnP BIOS functionality on some
>>            platforms.
>>          * PXELINUX: Fix the "naked" version of :: (suppress prefix.)
>>          * elf.c32: better error messages.
>>          * Faster operation under Intel VT virtualization.
>>          * PXELINUX: Fix DHCP bootfile option.
>>          * mkdiskimage: Support more than 1024 cylinders.
>>          * (Hopefully) fix installer on non-x86 platforms.
>>          * Fix shuffle_and_boot_rm, used by linux.c32.
>>          * Fix shuffle_and_boot_pm on 386/486.
>>          * ISOLINUX (at least): fix bss memory overwrite hang.
>>          * MBR: Fix booting from logical partitions.
>>          * Code cleanups.
> 
> Since some time syslinux did not compile anymore on RH7 or EL2 (somewhere
> between 2.11 and 3.09), I looked today what made the build fail and a
> duplicate definition in the term_state/default_state structure definition
> breaks the old gcc.
> 
> Not sure if there is a simple way to fix this so it can still be compiled ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Try grabbing 0188c20b01e4c5702108390eae6ea60a0af0a8e5.

	-hpa




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