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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 24 12:30:51 PST 2008


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> 
> If i don't mistake the original gfxboot patch did only implement gfxboot for
> syslinux and isolinux. The gfxboot COMBOOT module does work with syslinux,
> isolinux and extlinux. The cb_fopen callback from gfxboot core does expect file
> length in ecx. I did assume pxelinux can not return the file length on file open, tho
> i did not verify it.
> 

PXELINUX will return that information if it gets it (i.e. if using TFTP
and the TFTP server support tsize.)  This used to be required, but
gPXELINUX obviously can't handle those restrictions.

	-hpa




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