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

[Eric PEYREMORTE]

Le 11/03/2014 17:54, Gene Cumm a écrit :
> 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/ ?
>
Thanks for the suggestion. Not better with both (very slow)