[syslinux] [RFC][PATCH] Gfxboot COMBOOT module

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Nov 23 22:40:52 PST 2008


Gene Cumm wrote:
> 
> Hmmm... gfxboot as a COMBOOT?  Sounds appealing.  Doesn't modify the
> core yet allows the eye candy of gfxboot.  Seems like it should have
> been this way from the beginning.
> 

I'm rather confused, though, about the I/O stuff... does this attempt to
read the filesystem itself?  That's hardly code we want to duplicate for
the syslinux core.  Otherwise, why is pxelinux excluded?

	-hpa




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