[syslinux] Very slow download with pxelinux > 4.07 on specific hardware

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Eric PEYREMORTE
<eric.peyremorte at iut-valence.fr> wrote:
> Le 11/03/2014 15:27, Ady a écrit :
>
>>> Le 11/03/2014 10:32, Eric PEYREMORTE a écrit :
>>> Some news here. I didn't test with 5.01 yet (didn't see that one sorry).
>>> With 5.01 i don't have any problem. Problems begin with 5.10.
>>> --
>>> Eric PEYREMORTE
>>
>>   Hello Eric:
>>
>> To sum up your report:
>> _ 4.0x works;
>> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
>> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
>> _ 5.10 (lwip merge into elflink) fails;
>>
>> I wonder if testing 6.03-pre5 (which is *not* the latest) pre-built
>> binaries (look under the bios/ directory) would work OK for you.
>>
>> If you happen to test it, please remember to use the pre-built
>> binaries already included in the official archive (as oppose to
>> rebuilding them, which could introduce undesirable interactions), and
>> to use all c32 files from the same 6.03-pre5 version (instead of
>> mixing files from different versions), specially including
>> ldlinux.c32, all lib*.c32 and all the rest of c32 modules (from the
>> same archive from which you take pxelinux.0, under some subdiretory
>> under "bios/").
>>
>> TIA,
>> Ady.
>
> Hello Ady,
>
> To sum up :
>
>
> _ 4.0x works;
> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
> _ 5.10 and beyond (lwip merge into elflink) fails; --> pxelinux.0 very slow,
> lpxelinux.0 freezes (i don't get the menu)
>
> I just tried with 6.03 pre 5 :
> pxelinux.0 very slow
> lpxelinux.0 hangs displaying pxelinux 6.03 lwip

Could you try 5.10-pre1 or -pre2 from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/5.10/ ?


-- 
-Gene