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

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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 :)

Works already fine in Qemu on my system.

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