[syslinux] [GIT PULL] gfxboot module changes

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 22 09:12:16 PDT 2010


On 10/22/2010 08:46 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>> the following changes since commit 94fbd0b8d206102757cecd3dbd67cd701fb70470:
>>
>>  Merge remote branch 'liu/master' (2010-10-15 16:41:02 -0700)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>  git://repo.or.cz/syslinux/sherbszt.git gfxboot32
>>
>> Colin Watson (1):
>>      gfxboot: fix buffer overrun when loading kernel/initramfs
>>
>> com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c |    3 ++-
>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks for sorting out the confusion around this while I was away.  Do
> you have any thoughts on
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2010-July/014870.html?  It's not
> clear that I'm going to have time for the refactoring that HPA suggested
> in the only follow-up to that patch; it wasn't clear to me whether that
> was going to be a blocker.
> 
> I do think this is an improvement and it's just adding support for
> syntax already documented in doc/menu.txt ...
> 

Well, I want to put out Syslinux 4.03 *today*, and I'm not familiar
enough with gfxboot to know if this patch is correct or likely to
introduce problems...

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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