[syslinux] Problem with 90MB Initrd

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/01/2015 05:18 AM, Patrick Masotta via Syslinux wrote:
> 
> Aside from potentially needing smaller buffers for config files before
> parsing (which seems trivial and unnecessary), what other benefits are
> there to this strategy?
> 

At the core, is that Syslinux is a general bootloader which gives access
to a virtual filesystem.  It supports multiple open files, but not
seeking or writing.

SOME of the reasons to support multiple files have gone away because of
the shuffler and more comprehensive memory management, however.

	-hpa