[syslinux] Thoughts: chaindev -> altchain

[Michal Soltys]

On 11-03-06 21:33, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/06/2011 12:28 PM, Michal Soltys wrote:
>>  Hi
>>
>>  I was thniking about that chaindev branch I see slowly
>>  rotting in my git - and I was wondering: would it be
>>  acceptable to change it from "replace existing
>>  chain.c32" to "provide alternative altchain.c32" ?
>>  The rationale for such request:
>>
>>  - chaindev resides in its own directory under com32,
>>    so there're no conflicts possible
>>
>>  - the dependency on disklib is trivial to solve - just
>>    move disklib.{c,h} (which is de-facto used only by chain,
>>    and consists of functions moved outside original
>>    chain.c) to the chaindev subdir; any further swaps (e.g.
>>    towards core disk functions) / backporting would be
>>    a trivial matter too
>>
>>  - the code would be easily available for others to
>>    experiment with (use, patch, comment). I haven't had
>>    any problems presonally since my last commit, and
>>    it was tested pretty extensively
>>
>>  - the documentation is also included, though it needs
>>    some un-engrishing and a bit more friendliness
>>
>
> Refresh my memory ... (yes, I know I have been the bottleneck in a lot
> of things lately), but is this a 1:1 replacement (or superset), or is
> this an incompatible change?
>
> 	-hpa
>

It's superset with compatible command line options. It should work for 
anyone as a drop-in replacement.

doc/chain.txt lists all the currently implemented features

git://git.hasevolq.net/syslinux.git chaindev