[syslinux] Recent (6.02) PXELINUX on Soekris net4501

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/11/2014 09:12 AM, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> * Ady, 2014-06-11 :
> 
>> Perhaps it would be worth testing with official pre-built binaries of 
>> Syslinux 6.03-pre14 using the following config:
> 
> Different behaviour.
> 
> * pxelinux.0:
>   After TFTP load of pxelinus.0, spits out gibberish for ~1 minute
>   (as though it had set an incorrect default serial port speed),
>   then loads config and switches back to correct baud rate.
>   "Hello world" displays just fine; however since your test config takes
>   no user input, I can't say whether the serial connection works in
>   the other direction. (With my previous Clonezilla menu it seemed to
>   still not receive anything).
> 
> * lpxelinux.0:
> Interesting, does not freeze anymore apparently. Gibberish after
> loading; if I switch to 115200 bps then I see it's actually in an
> endless loop of:
> 
> Thread 0x003a0010 (idle) runnable priority 2147483647
> Thread 0x00122034 (root) runnable priority 0
> Schedule Thread 0x003a4050 (pxe receive) runnable priority -20
> Thread 0x003a0010 (idle) runnable priority 2147483647
> Thread 0x00122034 (root) runnable priority 0
> Schedule Thread 0x003a4050 (pxe receive) runnable priority -20
> Thread 0x003a0010 (idle) runnable priority 2147483647
> Thread 0x00122034 (root) runnable priority 0
> 
> Does not seem to reach "hello world" though.
> 

*Blink*... sounds like the binaries got built with debugging turned on.

My bad in that case...
	
	-hpa