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

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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.

Still same problem (IF=0) here with Qemu and Bochs and pxelinux (etherboot and gpxe rom).
Syslinux works tho.

- Sebastian