[syslinux] Updated status on UEFI compliant version of the pxechn-module

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Jan Frode Jæger <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have browsed through your syslinux archives and see that the issue of an UEFI compliant version of the pxechn-module has come up several times:
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> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-August/022611.html
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> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-March/023320.html
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> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-September/024231.html
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> Now the issue as I understand it is that the original pxechn-module has been written to interface with legacy BIOS and not UEFI. It also seems that Patricks update as of March 2015 gave positive indications that a general fix for com32-modules were possible.
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> It would have been nice to receive some update on both com32-module compliance for the UEFI architecture as well as for the pxechn-module in specific. We have a setup at my workplace that are dependant upon this working and right now the only solution is to use legacy BIOS PXE-boot.
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> Is there any fix for this in the recently mentioned 6.04 pre-release (soon to become release?)?

No, I removed all modules with BIOSisms from UEFI builds like pxechn.c32.

More importantly, Syslinux can't load arbitrary UEFI images yet.

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-Gene