I have released SYSLINUX 1.75 -- this one is identical to 1.75-pre9
except the version number. I have gotten enough testing done that I
feel it's time to release...
Changes in 1.75:
* ALL: NASM 0.98.32 or later is now required to build
SYSLINUX from sources.
* SYSLINUX: put back in the workaround for the BIOS floppy
table. This seems to be a requirement for "extended"
floppy
formats to work correctly.
* SYSLINUX: No longer warn if one is trying to boot on a 286
or older. The above BIOS workaround no longer fits if the
requirement to use only 8086-compatible code in the early
boot is maintained. It made sense in 1994, but in 2002 a
286 or older is a museum object.
* SYSLINUX: Use a downright bizarre, stateful algorithm to try
to guess the maximum transfer size. I am *hoping* this will
cut down on the number of systems for which -s is required
to work at any acceptable speed.
* ISOLINUX: Add a few more workarounds for various broken El
Torito BIOSes.
* Make sure .depend files aren't accidentally packed...
* ALL: Fix bugs in the extension-detect code; this caused
files like COMBOOT images and CD boot sectors to be
mis-identified as Linux kernels and rejected.
* ALL: Fix the return from COMBOOT.
* ALL: Do some of the early groundwork for supporting DOS
system calls in COMBOOT.
* Get rid of unnecessary "near" directives, making the code
bigger.
* PXELINUX: Put the PXE stack back in the init state before
invoking a chain-loaded NBP.
* PXELINUX: Actually found the combination of calls that
allows some (most?) PXE 2+ stacks to be unloaded from memory
properly.
* PXELINUX: Add "keeppxe" command-line option to disable
the standard unloading of the PXE stack.
Get it from the usual places...
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
-hpa
