[syslinux] Extend Multiboot1 with support for ELF64 file format

[Geert Stappers]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:14:27AM +0300, Ady via Syslinux wrote:
> This patch is just a (shameless) copy from bug #28 [1].
> 
> The original patch has been sitting there for a couple of years now, 
> and it was based on Syslinux v 4.05.

   :-/


> The patch I am posting here is just a re-base on v.6.03. Whichever 
> inadequate formatting (tabs, trailing spaces...), or any kind of 
> correction that was required for the original patch to be accepted, is 
> probably still required now.

I will removel trailing spaces in an additional patch.


> I have not tested this patch in any way, at all. I do not know whether 
> it is formatted adequately, whether it actually builds correctly,

It applied cleanly
and builds without errors.


> nor whether the potential resulting binaries would work as expected
> in any case.

Here we will need help from people
that do use mboot module mboot.c32

> The only "credit" (for lack of a better term) that could be attributed 
> to me could be bringing up the existence of this pending-patch to the 
> official Syslinux mailing list, after 2 years of being initially posted 
> to the official Syslinux Bugzilla tracker. Credit should go to the 
> original poster.

`git format-patch` is work in progress, it's output will have
the original poster as author.

> I am hoping this pending-for-review-patch can be evaluated, (corrected, 
> improved) and eventually accepted and merged in the official Syslinux 
> code.
> 
> Please don't leave this patch awaiting another 2 years.
> 
> TIA,
> Ady.
> 
>  [1]: http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28 
> 


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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