[syslinux] SDI loading patch

[Andrew Stuart]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> It might be worth building the original patch (which looks like it's 
> against syslinux-2.11) and see if that boots the image or not.  I built 
> what still builds of syslinux-2.11 with current tools, with the patch, 
> and put it at:
> 
> http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/syslinux/syslinux-2.11-sdi.tar.gz
> 
> 	-hpa

Yeah, I was going to investigate that myself. I downloaded the files, I 
was not able to work on it today, I had about a dozen fires I needed to 
put out (and unfortunately didn't complete).

I will attempt to try this tomorrow.

Going off topic.. If it is not to much trouble, can you take a look at 
http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/02/14/compiling-pxelinux-and-memdisk-on-freebsd 
and see if you can work it into future versions? The relevant part is 
below.

#tar -xjpvf syslinux-3.36.tar.bz2
#cd syslinux-3.36
#find . -type f -exec grep -le ‘elf_i386′ {} \; | xargs perl -i -p -e 
’s/elf_i386/elf_i386_fbsd/g;’

I have confirmed this working with 3.62 (excluding syslinux which has a 
compile error, if interested in adding FreeBSD support, I will report 
the issue separately)

-Andrew