[syslinux] [PATCH 1/3] Fix loading of *.lkrn images from gPXE

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jul 22 09:43:23 PDT 2008


Sergey Vlasov wrote:
>> Hm.  I don't know what *.lkrn images you're referring to (the newer gPXE 
>> images?)
> 
> Yes - actually I tried your gpxeiso branch (b0c48fa752) and found
> that it does not work.

Right :)

>> but that would be a bug in those images.  If they don't have 
>> any intention of using an initrd it should be set to -1.
> 
> Won't this actually mean that there is no limit on initrd placement
> in the 32-bit address space?  At least memdisk is already using
> 0xffffffff there.

That's what that means.  Obviously, if you don't need an initrd, you 
shouldn't care where in the memory space it ends up :)

Either which way, I should apply your patches.

	-hpa




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