[syslinux] [PATCH][git-pull] Reminders

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/23/2011 04:27 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> Here's some reminders for various branches that are pending.  All
> branches are at my public repo at
> git://git.zytor.com/users/genec/syslinux.git (
> http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/genec/syslinux.git;a=summary )
> 
> HPA, I'd appreciate a response in the direction of a status like on
> hold, under review, denied or to be completed soon.
> 
> 
> Branch win64-mingw32-ubuntu-for-hpa adds more prefixes in order to
> compile win64/syslinux64.exe as Debian (and Ubuntu) chose to use a
> prefix not in the list.  The list is also expanded to complete the
> permutations.

Merged.

> Branch handoff_mbr_for_hpa introduced a new MBR/VBR to show the
> handoff parameters.  HPA: Should this be moved to diag/ (I'm putting
> my geometry display code in a subdirectory there; still prepping for a
> branch)?

Please move to diag if possible.

> Branch core-diskstart-chkerr-for-hpa fixes DS in the (future)
> situation that copying ldlinux.sys results in DS not being 0.  Segment
> 0 contains the error message string we need in case of failure and DS
> !=0 would prevent this error message from properly displaying.

Merged.

> Branch diskboot-comment-for-hpa adds some comments to diskboot that I
> think will be handy for anyone re-using diskboot.inc.

Merged.

> Branch rosh_for_hpa fixes a bug in rosh's ls that could hang the PC.
> I found that using 'ls -l' with a directory option in certain manners
> caused a failure as an error check was incorrect.

Merged.

> Branch memdisk-maxmem-for-hpa implements the 'mem=' parameter in
> MEMDISK by marking all areas that currently available above a certain
> address as reserved.  This resolved a user issue with a particular old
> application that failed when too much memory was available.

Merged.

> Branch gpxelinux-kpxe-for-hpa adds a new target of gpxelinuxk.0 which
> uses undionly.kpxe rather than undionly.kkpxe with an accompanying new
> script.

Please add documentation about why someone will want to do this.  This
*will* fail to run localboot, so it's important to document.

> Branch memdiskdbg-for-sha0 expands on Shao Miller's additional disk
> probe checks and disk probe debugging display.  This resolved an issue
> with a particular line of laptops whose output was mildly contrary to
> expected output.  This should hopefully contain enough data in the
> display to debug any additional disk probe issues if any arise.  I'm
> currently waiting on Shao's review but would welcome others.

Shao?

I have pushed these changes out as 4.04-pre10, but I would appreciate an
update for the NEWS file if you could.

	-hpa