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

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 18:43, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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.

Gladly.

>> 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.

Thank you for the additional feedback.  I'll add notes to
doc/pxelinux.txt about both variants.

>> 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
>

Thank you on all branches.  I'll drop a message when the changes are done.

-- 
-Gene