[syslinux] Syslinux 3.81-pre4 (RC): halt on idle included

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon May 18 16:34:42 PDT 2009


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> CLI locks up here using pxelinux on qemu and bochs with etherboot 5.4.2,
>>> but not on VMware (syslinux-3.81-pre4-1-g8771b74).
>> Bochs says in bochsout.txt:
>> 00102409354i[CPU0 ] WARNING: HLT instruction with IF=0!
> 
> That would be problematic, indeed.

OK, I have really been *way* too cavalier about disabling interrupts.
It really isn't a good thing to do, even if it mostly works.  I have
pushed out a -pre6 which enables interrupts in most places.

	-hpa




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