Syslinux - Dec 2007 - SYSLINUX 3.54 released

This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor 
documentation changes.

Changes in 3.54:
         * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu
disabled"
           (see README.menu).
         * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
           memory buffers.  In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
           when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
           default.)
         * Support for calling real mode functions using far calls,
           with argument on the stack.  This was implemented to support
           the BIOS BBS specification, but subsequent experiments show
           that the at least one of the most common BIOS cores, Award,
           passes the presence check but doesn't actually implement the
           functionality.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        3.54
Entered-date:   2007-12-12

Description:    SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
                 operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
                 filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
                 using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.  The FAT
                 filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
                 Linux.

                 It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
                 modules, including a significant subset of the
                 standard C library.

                 It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
                 operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
                 or CD-ROM.

Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
                 floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
                 memdisk com32
Author:         hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by:  hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site:   ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
                 2041832 syslinux-3.54.tar.gz
                 2342138 syslinux-3.54.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or
                 later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:22:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin
wrote:
> This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor 
> documentation changes.
> 
> Changes in 3.54:
>          * Add "menu separator", "menu indent",
"menu disabled"
>            (see README.menu).
>          * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
>            memory buffers.  In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
>            when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
>            default.)
FWIW, this also fixes the splash screen on a real hardware:
ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]

-- 
lfr
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Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:22:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few
minor
>> documentation changes.
>>
>> Changes in 3.54:
>>          * Add "menu separator", "menu indent",
"menu disabled"
>>            (see README.menu).
>>          * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
>>            memory buffers.  In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
>>            when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
>>            default.)
> 
> FWIW, this also fixes the splash screen on a real hardware:
> ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
> 
Excellent!  Thanks for letting me know.

	-hpa