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...oesn't clear the memory between them. Or rather, the code for it does not work. The patch below fixes it. Steffen --- loadhigh.inc +++ loadhigh.inc @@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ push edi ; <C> Target buffer mov cx,ax xor bx,bx ; ES:0 + push dx call getfssec ; Load the data into xfer_buf_seg + ; getfssec destroys dx! + pop dx pop edi ; <C> Target buffer pop ecx ; <B> Byte count this round push ecx ; <B> Byte count this round

This set of patches add some support for sector size >512. Currently it fixes extlinux, MBR for GPT and ext partitions. Other code is unaffected. This set of patches has been tested on a read Dell machine running a beta firmware.

From: Sylvain Gault <sylvain.gault at gmail.com> These patches basically remove unused linker scripts and port a change that was made to an unused script. Those are to be applied on top of the gcc 5 bug fixes as they would conflict otherwise. Sylvain Gault (4): diag/mbr: fix dependency to linker script Remove unused linker scripts core: Make symbols defined in linker script HIDDEN

...lt;stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <errno.h> +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/times.h> +#include <consoles.h> +#include <minmax.h> + + +#ifdef __COM32__ +#define BUFSZ 2048 +/* What's optimal? Under 4k? + * layout.inc: xfer_buf_seg equ 1000h + */ + +float get_tps(){ return 18.2; } + +#else /* __COM32__ */ + +#define BUFSZ 16384 +/* Need to check what might be a "best" buffer/fetch block size here */ + +float get_tps(){ return (float)sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK); } +void print_cp_result2(char *fn, int bcnt, clock_t bc, clock...

...= ASSERT(_end16 <= 0x10000, "64K overflow")); - - /* - * Special 16-bit segments - */ - - . = ALIGN(65536); - .real_mode (NOLOAD) : { - *(.real_mode) - } - HIDDEN(real_mode_seg = core_real_mode >> 4); - - . = ALIGN(65536); - .xfer_buf (NOLOAD) : { - *(.xfer_buf) - } - HIDDEN(xfer_buf_seg = core_xfer_buf >> 4); - - /* - * Used to allocate lowmem buffers from 32-bit code - */ - .lowmem (NOLOAD) : { - HIDDEN(__lowmem_start = .); - *(.lowmem) - HIDDEN(__lowmem_end = .); - } - HIDDEN(__lowmem_len = ABSOLUTE(__lowmem_end) - ABSOLUTE(__lowmem_start)); - HIDDEN(__lowmem_dwords =...

...rno.h> +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/times.h> +#include <consoles.h> +#include <minmax.h> +#include <limits.h> +#include <string.h> + +#ifdef __COM32__ +# define BUFSZ_DEF 2048 +/* What's optimal? Under 4k? + * layout.inc: xfer_buf_seg equ 1000h + */ +# define O_DIRECT 0 + +static inline float get_tps(){ return 18.2; } + +#else /* __COM32__ */ + +# define BUFSZ_DEF 16384 +/* Need to check what might be a "best" buffer/fetch block size here */ + +static inline float get_tps(){ return (float)sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK); } + +#...

...information */ + /* Add auxiliary information */ mboot_make_memmap(); mboot_apm(); mboot_syslinux_info(); diff --git a/core/i386/syslinux.ld b/core/i386/syslinux.ld index 36b1a69..e8d32dd 100644 --- a/core/i386/syslinux.ld +++ b/core/i386/syslinux.ld @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ SECTIONS xfer_buf_seg = core_xfer_buf >> 4; /* - * The auxilliary data segment is used by the 16-bit code + * The auxiliary data segment is used by the 16-bit code * for items that don't need to live in the bottom 64K. */ diff --git a/doc/extlinux.txt b/doc/extlinux.txt index d8cbb5d..f0cac8d 100...

From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com> The following patch series is available at, git://git.zytor.com/users/mfleming/syslinux.git elflink All patches are against the 'elflink' branch. This series fixes a few serious bugs and some behavioural incompatibilities with the 4.x series. Matt Fleming (19): ldlinux: Initialise 'p' before using it. ldlinux: Parse