[syslinux] Status of syslinux git master

hpa at zytor.com hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jul 7 18:59:28 PDT 2019


On July 7, 2019 8:37:10 AM PDT, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt at gmx.de> wrote:
>Gene,
>
>it looks like the syslinux master branch is broken since February [1].
>Peter created the wip.makefixes branch but I wasn't able to get it
>working (yet) and it lacks activity since March.
>
>I think it might be time to revert commit 458a54133ecd ("Fix all
>warnings, and better separate code that should not be mixed") which
>broke master. Then apply at least the outstanding patch "Force the
>linker to put all sections into a single PT_LOAD segment" [2] from
>Debian which is required for EFI. And maybe tag the result as
>syslinux-6.04-pre4.
>
>[1] https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2019-February/026335.html
>[2] https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2018-August/026167.html
>
>Sebastian

Could you make a tree that I can pull?
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