[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.55 and 3.60 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jan 10 23:13:14 PST 2008


Changes in 3.60:
         * Support for "auxilliary data vector", a small amount of
           writable storage.  Currently only supported for EXTLINUX,
           but the infrastructure is there for the other derivatives,
           assuming a suitable storage location can be found.
         * EXTLINUX: boot-once support (--once, --clear-once, and
           --reset-adv).
         * A command is now required to the EXTLINUX installer, i.e. at
           least one of --install, --update, --once, --clear-once, or
           --reset-adv.

Changes in 3.55:
         * PXELINUX: as per RFC 5071, PXELINUX no longer requires the
           use of the magic cookie option (208) for unencapsulated
           options.  Currently it does not require it for
           vendor-encapsulated options (vendor-option-space) either,
           but that MAY be reverted in the future if it causes
           problems.
         * Documentation text files moved to a common "doc" directory;
           man pages from the Debian project added to the "man"
           directory.
         * Correct bug with self-overlapping memory areas when using
           the shuffle interface.


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

	-hpa




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