[syslinux] .ERROR: idle with IF=0 with 3.81 syslinux update.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 31 May 2009 at 21:34, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Date sent:      	Sun, 31 May 2009 21:34:39 -0700
From:           	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
To:             	"Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
Copies to:      	For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa 
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Subject:        	Re: [syslinux] .ERROR: idle with IF=0 with 3.81 syslinux 
update.

> Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > 
> > But the question is, why did it work just fine with 3.80 and not with 3.81??
> > The BIOS is the latest version for this motherboard as I just confirmed with 
> > the MSI web site.
> > American Megatrends Inc.
> > V3.A
> > 09/29/2004
> > as reported by HDT.
> > 
> > I've used various versions of isolinux on these machines for years, and only 
> > with the 3.81 did the error occur??
> > 
> 
> It's the new halt-on-idle code.

Question. Will this fix be worked into the syslinux, or will it need to be 
patched each time? Additionally, I use this for my g4l project disk imaging 
program, which gets about 8,000 to 15,000 downloads each month from 
sourceforge, and I have no ideal what hardware all the users have, so want 
to make sure it works with the largest amount of hardware. Haven't had any 
issues reported, but am sure that this error would have some users 
confused. 

Thanks for the time and all your work with the project...


> 
> 	-hpa
> 
> -- 
> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.
> 


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