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

Steffen Winterfeldt wfeldt at suse.de
Wed Jan 7 03:33:18 PST 2009


On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, a178235 wrote:

> Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I hope that the work done on GFXBoot comes to fruition. Some of the
> previous posted comments seemed negative and I hope that it doesn’t
> discourage those involved from completing the module. I think that it
> would be very beneficial as PXELINUX does not have this ability and
> ISOLINUX does.

I've sent a patch for the gfxboot.com module to Sebastian that addresses the
file size issue. Also, the latest gfxboot at
https://gfxboot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gfxboot/trunk works with files
of unknown size. I've put the latest gfxboot.com patch I've seen in the
patches directory for testing.

I haven't seen any major issues during my tests. And as it currently looks I
will discontinue the gfxboot patches for syslinux and go for the com module
instead.

Sebastian, are you still working on the module?


Steffen

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