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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Nov 26 09:23:21 PST 2008


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
>> Not in yet.
>>
>> In principle I can do the int 13 calls directly in gfxboot but it seemed an
>> unnecessary code duplication. Technically no big deal.
>>
> 
> Why is gfxboot parsing the partition tables?
> 

I should also point out that the Syslinux core *NEVER* parses the 
partition tables.  It shouldn't -- it has no business to.  If we 
chainload (chain.c32), *then* we parse the partition tables - in C code.

	-hpa




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