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

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:58, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

At first I continued on my old branch and pushed it but figured since
it's new it'd be easier off of the top of master and created
diag-mbr-handoff-for-hpa and cherry-picked.

HPA, I did not add diag/ to the root Makefile as I think I need to
know what you feel should or should not be built for the package.  Any
'make' operation from the diag/ directory should produce reasonable
results.  This will be more critical for the diag-geodsp-for-hpa
branch (24 MiB during build although it should be easy to just
directly make the final compressed image; let me know).

>>> 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 doc-syslinux-for-hpa has some updates that I noted in a
separate thread.  If I'm thinking correctly, "LOCALBOOT -1" is the
only LOCALBOOT that has any reasonable hope of running properly.

>>> 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.

Branch news-for-hpa has an update.

-- 
-Gene