[syslinux] COM32 Implementation Of GFXBoot

Erwan Velu erwan at seanodes.com
Wed Aug 13 01:41:06 PDT 2008


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Erwan
>> Another student started to work on it but apart of the GSOC.
>>     
>
> do you intend to mentor this new attempt too?
>   
Yes.
>
> Does this project consist of reimplementing the patches in C and
> keep calling the loadable gfxboot extension or does it include
> porting that extension to syslinux too?
>   

The project is mainly divided in two parts.

The first one is to understand how GFX boot works and then write a
documentation about it.
This isn't funny at all but it is strongly required to insure a good
maintainabily of the second part.

The second part is to rewrite the gfxboot patch as a com32 module. Part
of the asm patch can be removed as syslinux provides some
libraries/functionnalities requires by gfxboot.
In another way, we'd like to have a com32 module that implements the
gfxboot behaviour by using syslinux internals at the most.

Note that the author is open in helping people understanding his code.




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