[syslinux] where to swap

[Ady Ady]

> 
> > And meanwhile at the more central git repository.
> > 
> > Thank you Gene.
> > 
> 
>  
> The following two commits:
> 
> _ 
>  mbr/isohdpfx.S: correct stack for heads/sectors; revert 
>  
>  32c09027423f61c305e2423e52f5f69ecad8e2c0 
>  
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/?id=32c09027423f61c305
> e2423e52f5f69ecad8e2c0 
> 
> _ 
>  mbr/isohdpfx.S: Clear CX on INT 13h AH 41h failure 
>   
>  8739e2ff9ba3f92652c8df846924fd00e1ce2753 
>  
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/?id=8739e2ff9ba3f92652
> c8df846924fd00e1ce2753 
>  
> 
> were recently applied to the Syslinux git Master Head.
> 
> 
> Their respective two patches:
> 
>  
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/patch/?id=32c09027423f61c305e
> 2423e52f5f69ecad8e2c0 
> 
>  
> http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git/patch/?id=8739e2ff9ba3f92652c
> 8df846924fd00e1ce2753 
> 
> can also be applied cleanly to the 'syslinux-4.xx' branch.
> 
> 
> Considering the following facts:
> 
> _ the above two patches have more (potential) impact on older computers 
> (than on newer ones);
> 
> _ the 'syslinux-4.xx' branch is being used by many active (Linux) 
> distributions, such as Slackware, SUSE, RHEL and their derivatives 
> (e.g. Salix, OpenSUSE, Centos, Oracle, Scientific...) among many 
> others;
> 
> 
> I would like to request for the aforementioned two patches to be also 
> applied 
> to the 'syslinux-4.xx' branch in the official Syslinux git 
> repositories.
> 
> TIA,
> Ady.
 
Is there any reason not to apply this to 'syslinux-4.xx'? I would 
really like to know.

TIA,
Ady.