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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
>>> It is currently used to get some info from the iso9660 header. Also, it
>>> would be needed if you're going to parse the partition table.
>>>
>> No, reading the partition table needs some other stuff.
> 
> What other stuff?
> 

The INT 22h API gets access to the filesystem, not to arbitrary disks.

>> All in all, it really feels like gfxboot is worse than a kluge than I
>> ever imagined...
> 
> Whatever. syslinux didn't provide a usable api when I started working on
> gfxboot and you plain refused any co-op. So that's what you end up with.

I had never even heard of gfxboot until I started getting bug reports 
about it.

> It _might_ have helped when you'd given some constructive feedback over the
> last years instead of always just complaining.

By the time I first heard about it, gfxboot was already an apparent fait 
accompli, out there running binary bytecode blobs, by your own admission 
completely undocumented.  The code was hardly elucidative, either. What 
kind of feedback were you either soliciting or just plain expecting?

	-hpa