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

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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.

I hope I can try it tomorrow at work on a bunch of different systems, 
before the long weekend. I very much want this to work fine too :)

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