[syslinux] extlinux: missing text on serial output

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
>> Compiling with NASM 2.02 and then running my Extlinux+vesamenu.c32 test 
>> under Qemu works just fine.  Perhaps you could send me a copy of 
>> extlinux.bin from your compile session (or even better, tar up a full 
>> build tree)?
> 
> I will send you the full build tree tomorrow, this GPRS connection
> isn't up to that.  But I attached extlinux.bin and a disk image
> freezing into reboot.c32.
> 

Okay, I installed Debian Etch under KVM, and was able to reproduce this 
problem.  It appears to be a problem with ld 2.17, which is the default 
version in Etch; it does not depend on the version of NASM.

There isn't all that much I can do about it, other than use an indirect 
call here (see patch.)

I'm slightly hesitant to add this patch to the main code, though, to 
support a very old and obviously broken linker.

	-hpa
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