[syslinux] Embedding COM32 modules into pxelinux.0

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun May 3 15:46:02 PDT 2009


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> There is ... around 32K.  The build should fail if you run out of space.
> 

Clarification: that limit comes from the fact that the Syslinux core is
a "tiny model" program (single 64K segment).  The PXE spec itself limits
the downloaded program to 32K (this was actually the reason for basing
PXELINUX on SYSLINUX), but it turns out that no known PXE stack depends
on that limit, and in practice one can load at least a few hundred K.

	-hpa

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