[syslinux] 3.70 without "finished" gpxelinux.0?

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz at cmu.edu
Mon Jun 9 09:20:36 PDT 2008


--On Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:33:00 PM +0200 Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> 
wrote:

> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>
>> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm thinking about wrapping up a 3.70 release, even though gpxelinux.0
>>>> is technically not feature-complete.  I'd like people's opinion on it.
>>>
>>> "Release early and often." :)  But what does "not feature-complete"
>>> mean?
>>
>> In particular, loading another PXE stack (i.e. a .0 file) from
>> gpxelinux.0 is currently pretty badly broken.
>
> Including gpxelinux.0 itself?  Just curious, I don't think a single
> user would turn away from (g)pxelinux for this.

It certainly will prevent us from using it -- we use pxelinux to provide a 
multi-level menu tree from which to select OS installers, each of which 
have their own PXE bootloader.  So being able to chain is important to us.

Then again, we don't mind waiting.

-- Jeff




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