[syslinux] Gfxboot COMBOOT module vs Ubuntu patches

[H. Peter Anvin]

Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> 
> I will no longer maintain the original patch set against syslinux. So 3.63
> will be the last version as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> Instead, use Sebastians gfxboot COM module.
> 
> I'm currently looking into adding the missing functions. Which will
> probably end into a patch adding 3 comboot api calls: chdir [done], mount
> (for media changes) [done], and setting some callback function to get a
> progress bar [wip].
> 

It's probably worth me putting in a strong warning here... Syslinux 4 
will have dramatically different management of high memory.  COM32 in 
its current form will no longer exist, instead it will be replaced with 
ELF loadable modules, and an always-on arena memory manager.

The current load_high will not exist, instead the code that will do 
kernel loading is going to be the code that currently is implemented as 
linux.c32.

	-hpa