[syslinux] Syslinux 3.81 released

[Miller, Shao]

I think that it's great that Intel has let you spend some time on the
Syslinux suite.  Not only do they make CPUs, but it seems that they have
an interest in the folks who use those CPUs, and what they use them for.

Many thanks, H. Peter and thanks, Intel.

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 17:19
To: syslinux-announce at zytor.com; For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
Subject: [syslinux] Syslinux 3.81 released

Hi everyone,

I have pushed out Syslinux 3.81 to the usual places.

Again, special thanks to my employer, Intel, for letting me spend time
working on this stuff ;)

	-hpa


Syslinux 3.81 is primarily a bug fix release.  The main new features
are halt-on-idle support and some features to isohybrid, including the
ability to boot from an image written to a partition.

Changes in 3.81:
        * Shuffler: fix bug in real-mode entry.  This affected a
          number of modules, probably in relatively unimportant ways,
          but it completely broke linux.c32.
        * Improved performance.
        * Attempt to halt the processor while idle.  This can cause
          bad reponsiveness when using a serial console especially for
          automated input; if that ends up being a problem, use the
          new "NOHALT 1" configuration command.
        * linux.c32 now suppresses all messages if the "quiet" flag is
          specified.
        * isohybrid: add a variety of options, and a help message.
        * ISOLINUX: fix booting in hybrid mode when CBIOS is used.
          This unfortunately means that the isohybrid handoff protocol
          has changed, so the isohybrid utility must version-match
          isolinux.bin.
        * Drop support for ACPI 3 extended memory flags.
        * Menu system: don't set the autocr flag on the serial
          console.
        * altmbr: fix handling of logical partitions.
        * altmbr: cap at 439 bytes so the partition select byte isn't
          part of the file.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        3.81
Entered-date:   2009-05-29

Description:    SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
                operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
                filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
                using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.  The FAT
                filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
                Linux.

                It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
                modules, including a significant subset of the
                standard C library.

                It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
                operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
                or CD-ROM.

                This version includes gPXE, to allow accessing network
                files via other protocols than TFTP.

Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
                floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
                memdisk com32
Author:         hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by:  hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site:   ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
                3794892 syslinux-3.81.tar.gz
                4699863 syslinux-3.81.zip
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and NASM 0.98.39
 		or later required to build from source.  A future
		version will require NASM 2.00 or later.
Copying-policy: GPL, MIT
End

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