[syslinux] Proposal for Chain-Loadable LDLINUX.SYS

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/03/2013 02:05 PM, Shao Miller wrote:
> On 1/3/2013 12:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 01/02/2013 10:20 AM, Shao Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Well Syslinux 6.00 has a (U)EFI binary.  I'd have to review if PE
>>> conflicts with Linux x86 kernel-format.
>>>
>>
>> It does not -- in fact recent Linux kernels are directly EFI bootable as
>> well as valid bzImages.
>
> Pretty awesome!  I wonder if there's any advantage to merging
> ldlinux.sys and the >= 6.00 (U)EFI binary in this fashion, later on.
>
> - Shao Miller
>

Syslinux 6+ has syslinux.efi for UEFI platforms.  I don't think there is 
any significant advantage to merging the BIOS ldlinux.sys and 
syslinux.efi, especially since one is likely to be 16/32 bit and the 
other 64 bit.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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