[syslinux] syslinux-6.04-pre2

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:35 PM H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/6/19 9:17 AM, Joakim Tjernlund via Syslinux wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 16:00 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 14:07 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote:
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> It has been the case for quite a while that the master tree is
> >>> unambiguously better than 6.03. I have thus tagged and pushed out a
> >>> syslinux-6.04-pre2 release, however, due to the issues with continuing
> >>> to keep the main archive on kernel.org, I have moved the release archive to:
> >>
> >> Please add a non ancient gnu-efi snapshot too.
> >>
> >>  Jocke
> >
> > You vill need two commits( Update the longjump calls to fit the new declaration, The VPrint definition is now part of the exports of gnu-efi)
> > from https://github.com/joakim-tjernlund/syslinux/commits/master
> > to build against a modern gnu-efi
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I merged your tree and added the install patch on top of it.  Thank you!
>
>         -hpa

Is it worth doing another -pre immediately since upgrading gnu-efi
took such a large leap?  My thought is if someone has an issue with
the new proposed -pre, they can try -pre2 with minimal differences to
separate a gnu-efi related issue from others.


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-Gene