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H. Peter Anvin

2014-Oct-06 16:35 UTC

[syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released

Hi everyone,

I have released Syslinux 6.03.  It is by and large identical to 6.03-pre20.

I would like to do a short cycle for 6.04, because 64-bit support for
ext4 has come up as a very high priority.  Therefore I do not want to
stuff too many things into the 6.04 release but hold them for 6.05.

Thanks to Ady for most of the changelog.

Changes in 6.03:
        * chain: Fix chainloading on 6.02 (Raphael S. Carvalho).
        * core: Do not leak the __lowmem and __bss16 macros to modules;
          hide them so modules will not use them.
        * load_linux: Do not use size heuristic for non-relocatable
          kernels, for zImage kernels and for non-Linux kernels.
        * PXELINUX: Fix the SENDCOOKIES feature for HTTP
          (Russel Santillanes).
        * gnu-efi: Add gnu-efi as a submodule.
        * ANSI: Support color tables with more than 256 entries
          (James Buren).
        * EFI: Fix displayed version; add DATE (Gene Cumm)
        * PXELINUX, EFI: Fix bad read of file size over TFTP on EFI64
          (Sylvain Gault).
        * Fix hand over to kernel:
          "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" error.
        * ISOLINUX: EDX, LBA values higher than 65535; work around for
          buggy BIOS, where the system would hang, would reboot, or
          would show a "Disk error 01, AX=42" message.
        * core/legacynet: Enable dot quad resolution (Gene Cumm).
        * diag/geodsp improvements (Gene Cumm).
        * DOS: Fix syslinux.com DOS-based installer.
        * Improve gcc 4.3.0 compatibility.
        * syslxint: fix compilation on non-x86 architectures.
        * localboot: Fix "localboot 0x80" and similar cases.
        * Add memset() calls prior to any intcall() and other mem fixes;
          specially relevant for older hardware and/or buggy BIOS.
        * poweroff.c32: Fixes (Gene Cumm).
        * HDT: Fix memory leak in CLI (Felipe Pena).
        * ACPI: Remove memset of buffer; it makes things clearer but
          also prevents some compilation warnings (Erwan Velu).
        * Add manpages for isohybrid, memdiskfind
          (Peter Jones, Gene Cumm).
        * ISOLINUX: Experimental Rock Ridge support (Thomas Schmitt).
        * comapi: Remove the comapi interfaces.
        * EFI: Fixes on PE files and OVMF compatibility
          (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
        * EFI: Updates and fixes for gnu-efi sub-module
          (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
        * BIOS: Fix low memory check.
        * Filesystem UUID to SYSAPPEND bit 0x40000 for FAT and ext2
          (Serj Kalichev).
        * Makefiles: Export the firmware type as a cpp variable.
          Additional improvements. Fix "make spotless".
        * core, BIOS: Move __syslinux_shuffler_size to assembly.
          Actually get the shuffler size sanely. Fix booting recent
          Syslinux versions on certain hardware and on certain
          virtualization software (e.g. QEMU 0.11.1, VirtualBox 4.1.x).
        * lua: Upgrade to v.5.2.3 (Ferenc W?gner) and additional fixes.
        * chainload: Fixes to chain.c32 and pxechn.c32.
        * NTFS: Make byte_shift a constant.
        * NTFS: Correct parsing of file runs (Andy Alex).
        * core, BIOS: Correct detection of EDD (Andy Alex).
        * core: Avoid initializing the cache more than once
          (Raphael S. Carvalho).
        * NTFS: Handle fragmented $MFT file (Andy Alex).
        * BIOS: Use int 0x16, ah=0x02 to probe for shift flags. Attempt
          workaround for USB keyboards not responding at boot time.
        * kbd: Getting the keyboard shift state is now a firmware
          method.
        * kbd: Fix force-prompt features.
        * BTRFS: Fix booting on BTRFS.
        * cache, btrfs: Provide a general cached read routine.
        * NTFS: Correct file->offset usage in ntfs_readdir (Andy Alex).
        * New support for UFS/FFS (UFS1/2) (Raphael S. Carvalho).
        * adv: Remove double definition;
          it should fix uses of the ADV, including "--once".
        * memdump: Remove old obsolete COM16 binary.
        * isohybrid: Numerous fixes (Thomas Schmitt).
        * chain.c32: Add an adjustable "strict={0,1,2}" flag, improve
          error reporting (Michal Soltys.)
        * lpxelinux.0: Workaround for various buggy BIOSes (Gene
          Cumm.)
        * PXE: Fix a stack-smashing bug which broke a large number of
          systems.

Ady

2014-Oct-06 17:37 UTC

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[syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released

> 
> I would like to do a short cycle for 6.04, because 64-bit support for
> ext4 has come up as a very high priority.  Therefore I do not want to
> stuff too many things into the 6.04 release but hold them for 6.05.
>  
The "64-bit support for ext4" was one of those I listed in my prior 
email about _some_ of the pending issues, (Subject: "Are any of these 
still relevant?") 
 http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-September/022635.html 

There are more known issues (with and without some kind of patch), 
not included in that email.
> 
> Changes in 6.03: 
I have some minor additional items listed (or with a slightly 
different wording). One that might be worth mentioning:

	* pxe: (Re-)add support for embedded DHCP options.

Thank You and Best Regards,
Ady.

Daniel Baumann

2014-Oct-07 05:46 UTC

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[syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released

On 10/06/2014 06:35 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> I have released Syslinux 6.03.
thank you very much, this is very, very much appreciated.

Regards,
Daniel

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Michael D. Setzer II

2014-Oct-14 15:11 UTC

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[syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released

With the release of 6.03 on October 6th. but page still shows latest as

2013-10-13 : Syslinux 6.02 released.

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project

On 6 Oct 2014 at 9:35, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:35:19 -0700
From:           	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
To:             	For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa 
<syslinux at zytor.com>
Subject:        	[syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have released Syslinux 6.03.  It is by and large identical to 6.03-pre20.
> 
> I would like to do a short cycle for 6.04, because 64-bit support for
> ext4 has come up as a very high priority.  Therefore I do not want to
> stuff too many things into the 6.04 release but hold them for 6.05.
> 
> Thanks to Ady for most of the changelog.
> 
> Changes in 6.03:
>         * chain: Fix chainloading on 6.02 (Raphael S. Carvalho).
>         * core: Do not leak the __lowmem and __bss16 macros to modules;
>           hide them so modules will not use them.
>         * load_linux: Do not use size heuristic for non-relocatable
>           kernels, for zImage kernels and for non-Linux kernels.
>         * PXELINUX: Fix the SENDCOOKIES feature for HTTP
>           (Russel Santillanes).
>         * gnu-efi: Add gnu-efi as a submodule.
>         * ANSI: Support color tables with more than 256 entries
>           (James Buren).
>         * EFI: Fix displayed version; add DATE (Gene Cumm)
>         * PXELINUX, EFI: Fix bad read of file size over TFTP on EFI64
>           (Sylvain Gault).
>         * Fix hand over to kernel:
>           "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" error.
>         * ISOLINUX: EDX, LBA values higher than 65535; work around for
>           buggy BIOS, where the system would hang, would reboot, or
>           would show a "Disk error 01, AX=42" message.
>         * core/legacynet: Enable dot quad resolution (Gene Cumm).
>         * diag/geodsp improvements (Gene Cumm).
>         * DOS: Fix syslinux.com DOS-based installer.
>         * Improve gcc 4.3.0 compatibility.
>         * syslxint: fix compilation on non-x86 architectures.
>         * localboot: Fix "localboot 0x80" and similar cases.
>         * Add memset() calls prior to any intcall() and other mem fixes;
>           specially relevant for older hardware and/or buggy BIOS.
>         * poweroff.c32: Fixes (Gene Cumm).
>         * HDT: Fix memory leak in CLI (Felipe Pena).
>         * ACPI: Remove memset of buffer; it makes things clearer but
>           also prevents some compilation warnings (Erwan Velu).
>         * Add manpages for isohybrid, memdiskfind
>           (Peter Jones, Gene Cumm).
>         * ISOLINUX: Experimental Rock Ridge support (Thomas Schmitt).
>         * comapi: Remove the comapi interfaces.
>         * EFI: Fixes on PE files and OVMF compatibility
>           (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
>         * EFI: Updates and fixes for gnu-efi sub-module
>           (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
>         * BIOS: Fix low memory check.
>         * Filesystem UUID to SYSAPPEND bit 0x40000 for FAT and ext2
>           (Serj Kalichev).
>         * Makefiles: Export the firmware type as a cpp variable.
>           Additional improvements. Fix "make spotless".
>         * core, BIOS: Move __syslinux_shuffler_size to assembly.
>           Actually get the shuffler size sanely. Fix booting recent
>           Syslinux versions on certain hardware and on certain
>           virtualization software (e.g. QEMU 0.11.1, VirtualBox 4.1.x).
>         * lua: Upgrade to v.5.2.3 (Ferenc W?gner) and additional fixes.
>         * chainload: Fixes to chain.c32 and pxechn.c32.
>         * NTFS: Make byte_shift a constant.
>         * NTFS: Correct parsing of file runs (Andy Alex).
>         * core, BIOS: Correct detection of EDD (Andy Alex).
>         * core: Avoid initializing the cache more than once
>           (Raphael S. Carvalho).
>         * NTFS: Handle fragmented $MFT file (Andy Alex).
>         * BIOS: Use int 0x16, ah=0x02 to probe for shift flags. Attempt
>           workaround for USB keyboards not responding at boot time.
>         * kbd: Getting the keyboard shift state is now a firmware
>           method.
>         * kbd: Fix force-prompt features.
>         * BTRFS: Fix booting on BTRFS.
>         * cache, btrfs: Provide a general cached read routine.
>         * NTFS: Correct file->offset usage in ntfs_readdir (Andy Alex).
>         * New support for UFS/FFS (UFS1/2) (Raphael S. Carvalho).
>         * adv: Remove double definition;
>           it should fix uses of the ADV, including "--once".
>         * memdump: Remove old obsolete COM16 binary.
>         * isohybrid: Numerous fixes (Thomas Schmitt).
>         * chain.c32: Add an adjustable "strict={0,1,2}" flag,
improve
>           error reporting (Michal Soltys.)
>         * lpxelinux.0: Workaround for various buggy BIOSes (Gene
>           Cumm.)
>         * PXE: Fix a stack-smashing bug which broke a large number of
>           systems.
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Gene Cumm

2014-Oct-14 20:54 UTC

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:> With the release of 6.03 on October 6th. but page still shows latest as
>
> 2013-10-13 : Syslinux 6.02 released.
>
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project
Done.
> On 6 Oct 2014 at 9:35, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Date sent:              Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:35:19 -0700
> From:                   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> To:                     For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
> <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Subject:                [syslinux] Syslinux 6.03 released
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have released Syslinux 6.03.  It is by and large identical to
6.03-pre20.
-- 
-Gene

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text,
especially the archives of mailing lists.
Q: Why is Top-posting such a bad thing?

Ferenc Wagner

2014-Oct-17 07:19 UTC

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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> I would like to do a short cycle for 6.04, because 64-bit support for
> ext4 has come up as a very high priority.  Therefore I do not want to
> stuff too many things into the 6.04 release but hold them for 6.05.
hpa,

if 64-bit support for ext4 is mostly ready, you may want to release 6.04
in less than ten days, so that Daniel has a chance to package it up for
Debian jessie (unless he has other requirements, of course).
-- 
Regards,
Feri.

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