similar to: SYSLINUX 1.75-pre1 available

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

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ Here is the list of changes in 1.75 so far: 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

On 07.03.2016 06:45, poma wrote: > On 06.03.2016 18:23, poma wrote: >> On 06.03.2016 16:47, poma wrote: >>> ... >>>> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="''" \ >>>> -DHEXDATE="0x56dc3c62" \ >>>> -Di386 \ >>>> -I/tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ \ >>>> -l ldlinux.lsr -o ldlinux.o -MP -MD

On 06.03.2016 16:47, poma wrote: > ... >> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="''" \ >> -DHEXDATE="0x56dc3c62" \ >> -Di386 \ >> -I/tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ \ >> -l ldlinux.lsr -o ldlinux.o -MP -MD ./.ldlinux.o.d /tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ldlinux.asm >> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="''" \

I tracked down the source of the "invalid kernel image" in 1.73 -- it turns out that in two different places I was accessing word-sized variables as dwords :( Consequently, SYSLINUX would reject valid kernels. PXELINUX/ISOLINUX are unaffected. Thus, SYSLINUX 1.74 is out. Expect a 1.75-pre1 quite soon. I'm working on a rewrite using 32-bit code from the very beginning, which

On 06.03.2016 18:23, poma wrote: > On 06.03.2016 16:47, poma wrote: >> ... >>> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="''" \ >>> -DHEXDATE="0x56dc3c62" \ >>> -Di386 \ >>> -I/tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ \ >>> -l ldlinux.lsr -o ldlinux.o -MP -MD ./.ldlinux.o.d /tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ldlinux.asm >>>

On 08.03.2016 17:36, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/08/16 07:49, poma via Syslinux wrote: >> >> ... >> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="'6.03-156-g1ac927d'" \ >> -DHEXDATE="0x56deef98" \ >> -Di386 \ >> -I/tmp/syslinux/core/ \ >> -l ldlinux.lsr -o ldlinux.o -MP -MD ./.ldlinux.o.d /tmp/syslinux/core/ldlinux.asm

... > nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="''" \ > -DHEXDATE="0x56dc3c62" \ > -Di386 \ > -I/tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ \ > -l ldlinux.lsr -o ldlinux.o -MP -MD ./.ldlinux.o.d /tmp/syslinux-6.04-pre1/core/ldlinux.asm > nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="''" \ > -DHEXDATE="0x56dc3c62" \ > -Di386 \ >

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > On 03/08/2016 02:53 PM, Gene Cumm wrote: >> >> Poma, in my opinion, this behavior means it's your/Fedora's responsibility >> to propose a change that distinguishes between broken and working NASM >> 2.11.06 or revert the commit in your/Fedora's build. >> > > Yes, it

On 03/08/16 07:49, poma via Syslinux wrote: > > ... > nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="'6.03-156-g1ac927d'" \ > -DHEXDATE="0x56deef98" \ > -Di386 \ > -I/tmp/syslinux/core/ \ > -l ldlinux.lsr -o ldlinux.o -MP -MD ./.ldlinux.o.d /tmp/syslinux/core/ldlinux.asm > head.inc:26: fatal: NASM 2.11.06 is known to miscompile Syslinux >

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:21 AM, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > On 03/06/16 10:02, Ady via Syslinux wrote: >> >> 1_ The NEWS file would not be an adequate place to post such >> information, for several reasons. >> >> 2_ Expressing the problem with NASM in such a way would be very >> inaccurate. The problem is in NASM

Or a README or something. I don't read the CHANGELOG before building, I read whatever constitutes the installation instructions. I guess I'd read an FAQ if it doesn't work (now that I think about it, rpmbuild doesn't work on the SPEC -- suppose I should report that separately). Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2016, at 13:02, Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:

On 05.03.2016 14:43, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote: > After so much time and improvements, I'm glad to see and publicize a > pre-release, 6.04-pre1 in > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/6.04/ > > Personally, I've already been working testing the pre-release as-is > and my tests have been positive so far. I appreciate feedback like > that

> $ make -j [jobs] > ... > $ nasm -version > NASM version 2.11.06 compiled on Feb 18 2015 > Probably this is part of the problem. Please update NASM to a newer version. I have suggested repeated times that a list of problematic / conflicting software that affects Syslinux (e.g. building environment) should have a wiki page in the official Syslinux wiki. The fact that some

On 03/06/16 10:02, Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > 1_ The NEWS file would not be an adequate place to post such > information, for several reasons. > > 2_ Expressing the problem with NASM in such a way would be very > inaccurate. The problem is in NASM 2.11.06, and only in that version. > The problem is not in Syslinux, and many other versions of NASM (such > as 2.11.05)

> > Emphasize proper NASM versions. > > --- > NEWS | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index d1a5b2c..7848c6b 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Starting with 1.47, changes marked with SYSLINUX, PXELINUX, ISOLINUX > or EXTLINUX apply to that specific program only; other changes apply > to all

On 03/08/2016 02:53 PM, Gene Cumm wrote: > > Poma, in my opinion, this behavior means it's your/Fedora's responsibility > to propose a change that distinguishes between broken and working NASM > 2.11.06 or revert the commit in your/Fedora's build. > Yes, it is highly problematic to have especially build tools with version numbers that don't match upstream having

On 08.03.2016 23:53, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Mar 8, 2016 12:32 PM, "H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com> > wrote: >> >> On 03/08/16 09:19, poma wrote: >>> >>> You don't seem to understand how the packages distribution works, >>> in this particular case, for Fedora 22. >>> >> >> I know far too well,

It's basically the same as 2.13-pre1 but with some makefile and specfile cleanups. For the RPM package, there is now a separate RPM with the com32 build environment. 2.13: Bug fixes for the 2.12 release. 2.12: Add a C runtime library for writing COM32 applications; minor improvements. Changes in 2.13: * MEMDISK: Fix command-line parsing "brown paper bag" class

This release is identical to 1.67-pre1. Unfortunately the people who reported problems with 1.66 never got back to me to indicate if it solved their problem or not, but since it fixes a real bug, regardless, I decided to release it as 1.67. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ -hpa 1.67 is a trivial bug fix release affecting a fairly small number of systems. 1.66 is an