[syslinux] [RFC][PATCH] Gfxboot COMBOOT module
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 24 15:36:03 PST 2008
Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Then the module should work as long as pxelinux does return the file size.
> The cb_fopen callback should then check for size -1 and fail if size is not
> available.
>
That does kind of suck, too... all in all, I'm assuming most of this
stuff is breakage inherent in gfxboot, but it should be addressed.
-hpa
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