[syslinux] *.c32 for efi64 and efi32?

Steven Shiau steven at nchc.org.tw
Wed Apr 23 04:49:31 PDT 2014


On 04/23/2014 06:12 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> Currently, the linker drops text strings into hdt.c32 specifying its
> dependencies and the Syslinux core hunts for those. It would be a change of
> the Makefiles and the list of filename suffixes to attempt which is already
> variant-specific.  I believe this becomes a near-trivial development change.
> 
> However, I think the bigger impact is on the user side as any scripts used
> to copy them around and any config files will likely change.  Currently, my
> config files all reference COM32s with ".c32" (the preferred setup add it
> eliminates the filename guessing game) and I'd need to remove that to keep
> things universal and slow things down in the process.
> 
> --Gene
Hi Gene,
Thanks. If you agree, maybe it can be changed in some major modified
versions, like 6.1.
My 2 cents.

Steven.
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