[syslinux] Loading progress indication

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/18/2015 03:20 AM, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2015 6:14 AM, "Paul Civati via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 18 Mar 2015, at 1:39 am, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Would code be accepted if someone were to contribute it?
>>>
>>> Likely but bear in mind the printing would have to be quite conditional.
>>
>> In what respect?
>>
>> I would opt for some kind of progress bar or percentage, but I have
> realised that
>> whatever is coded would have to play nicely over serial as well as VGA
> output,
>> which may neccessitate keeping it very simple.
> 
> The function is used to load all files, including ldlinux.c32,
> configurations, and menu.c32.  It must not display anything by default.
> Otherwise you have the right thought. Just outputting a period for every N
> bytes is the simplest if you print anything at all and VGA mode might get
> nothing.
> 

On a technical level, it would be good to be allowed to register a
callback of some kind to allow people to do graphics hacks and what have
you.

	-hpa