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

[Steffen Winterfeldt]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> >> 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.

That is certainly untrue. I've contacted you _before_ I put it out. Your
reply was IIRC, to give it a positive spin, dismissive.

> > 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 

Nothing wrong with bytecodes; shorter and faster than plain text. Plus you
get a syntax check in advance.

> completely undocumented.  The code was hardly elucidative, either. What 

He he, having the source code surely doesn't count as _completely_ undocumented. ;-)

> kind of feedback were you either soliciting or just plain expecting?

And that led you to brood silently, swamped with bugreports and unable to
tell me? Really, come on.

Going to forward the bugreports to me surely was out of the question? How
did you expect them to get fixed?

What I've seen from you instead over the years was the unability to resist
writing a single message with 'gfxboot' in it without a derogative remark.


Steffen

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