[syslinux] Syslinux 5.00-pre1 preview release

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/09/2012 08:11 PM, Paulo Alcantara wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:59:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> elflink shouldn't really be using core/ui.inc at all...
>>
>> 	-hpa
> 
> Ok. The problem with core/ui.inc being used in core/pxelinux.asm is that
> PXELINUX is hanging on any code in core/ui.inc.
> 
> I think core/ui.inc must be used in core/pxelinux.asm because it declares some
> variables that are used in core/fs/pxe.c (e.g: IPOption, IPAppends, etc). Or
> maybe we shouldn't declare them in core/ui.inc - instead declare them in
> core/pxelinux.asm.
> 
> I could add some code in core/pxelinux.asm to remove the dependency of
> core/ui.inc and then we don't need to include it anymore.
> 

That sounds like a good place to start.  ui.inc should be removed from
the elflink branch; it no longer has any valid use.

	-hpa