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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 9 16:45:20 PDT 2008


Andrew Stuart wrote:
> 
> I haven't kept up on the devel releases, would 3.70 include both 
> pxelinux and gpxelinux? If so I see no reason to not release it. Just 
> throw up an warning on gpxelinux to let people know what is broken.
> 

Absolutely.  I don't expect pxelinux will be deprecated for a very long 
time.

> Potentially this will be beneficial, as it will get more eyes on it and 
> hopefully help solve any bugs faster. It could also allow for changes 
> should someone come up with feature X which is a large change to 
> something not fully implemented?
> 
> I do know that gpxelinux is broken in regards to loading other pxe 
> stacks, does the same apply to it being loaded by pxelinux? It would be 
> nice to start trying it out, and converting some of my images that do 
> not have the pxe stack requirement (without changing my dhcp config).

pxelinux can load gpxelinux just fine.  Of course, that all will go 
through TFTP.

	-hpa




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