Syslinux - Jul 2010 - Very last call for Syslinux 4.02

Hi all,

I would like to release Syslinux 4.02 TODAY.  If there is anything I'm
missing, or which is wrong in Syslinux 4.02-pre3, please scream loudly
NOW...

	-hpa

Good day H. Peter,

I wonder if my com32lib_disk branch might be easy to incorporate.

Possibly also the top three commits of my for_hpa branch?

- Shao Miller

On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Miller, Shao wrote:
> Good day H. Peter,
> 
> I wonder if my com32lib_disk branch might be easy to incorporate.
> 
> Possibly also the top three commits of my for_hpa branch?
> 
> - Shao Miller
> 
com32lib_disk will have to be after 4.02, this is supposed to be a bug
fix release.  Sorry.

	-hpa

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I would like to release Syslinux 4.02 TODAY.  If there is anything I'm
> missing, or which is wrong in Syslinux 4.02-pre3, please scream loudly
> NOW...
Hi Peter,

I produced 4.02-pre3 builds without a problem for RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5.

Today we came across another small change that would serve us well. We are 
implementing a disaster-recovery solution and are in need for 
keyboard-mappings for syslinux. We only need a few, but for us it would be 
helpful if the keyboard-mappings are readily available (and of good 
quality).

Currently we are using the keyboard mappings as they come with the 
RIPLinux ISO. However it would make more sense IMO to ship them with 
syslinux, especially since we now have working keyb.c32 that allows to 
change keyboard settings on the fly.

Would it be possible to include those files (coming from RIPLinux) into 
the syslinux distribution ?

PS On a side-note we do have problems with the numeric keypad using the BE 
mappings, which I don't think we can easily fix using the current 
implementation. It seems that the numeric keypad is mapped directly to the 
US numerical keys and therefore produce the wrong characters if not 
similar to US. Not something I expect to be a priority ;-)

-- 
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/20/2010 09:52 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>> But it will require people to specifically convert and provide them in
>> advance, rather than have a syslinux that is enabled for all keyboards
by
>> default (eg from /boot/extlinux/maps/). Which for non-US
>
> I think the best would be for distros to make that with a syslinux-kbd
> package which depends on syslinux and kbd...
Perfect, although it might be possible that distributions may do this 
differently. We may want to create a page with recommendations for 
packagers like other projects do ?

>> For some reason I have a deja-vu, did we have this discussion before ?
:)
>>
>> BTW Did the below issue ever got fixed:
>>
>>      http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2006-March/006720.html
>>
>> Because it prevented us in the past from converting on-the-fly.
>
> The script was updated in 2009, so I *hope* that was fixed.
Ok, I read your write-up too, I will test this later this week. Holiday 
coming up ;-)

On a Belgian keyboard some characters (namely \, |, @, #, ~, {, }, [, ], 
`) are formed using AltGr and are impossible to make in syslinux right 
now. And as reported, numeric keypad is a no-go as well.

Thanks for the feedback,
-- 
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Op 20100719 om 10:44 schreef H. Peter Anvin:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to release Syslinux 4.02 TODAY.  If there is anything I'm
> missing, or which is wrong in Syslinux 4.02-pre3, please scream loudly
> NOW...
> 
At http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2010-July/014809.html is a minor
patch that I didn't see in the patches mailinglist.
It removes an unjustified comment line.

The same patch is also
 at http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2010-July/014902.html
and
http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/20100716/2ea1de15/attachment.bin

Stappers