[syslinux] GSOC 2008 ELF Loader

[Stefan Bucur]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Chad Z. Hower <Chad at hower.org> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> As command line parameters.  And yes, you're probably correct in that
>> regards.
>
>
> In its current form its not practically usable then. It totally ignores
> command line parameters as far as I can see.

Hi Chad,

I'm Stefan Bucur, the last year's GSoC student who wrote ELF loading
support for SYSLINUX. As you correctly noticed, the COM32 module that
enables this functionality is not useful in its current form. It was
designed as a simple testing platform (for development purposes), and
as a show-case application that would show a successful use of the ELF
loading framework API.

The purpose of the ELF loading framework is to be integrated into the
core of SYSLINUX 4. The API I designed is fairly complete and well
documented in its header files, although its shape might change during
integration. If you need to use it for your application, you would
need to write yourself a COM32 module suitable for your needs, that
would use the API. The COM32 module I wrote is just a "testing bench".

If you need more assistance with that, please let us know.

Cheers,
Stefan