Syslinux - Oct 2009 - Syslinux 3.83 released

Hi all,

I have just released Syslinux 3.83.  Special thanks to my employer,
Intel, for letting me spend time on this.

It is somewhat of a meager release despite four months, as most of the
work has gone into the future-work branches.

	-hpa


Changes in 3.83:
        * PXELINUX: clear memory before handing over to a chainloaded
          NBP.  This may help avoid a bug in Windows RIS.
        * PXELINUX: fix localboot after NBP chainloading on certain
          BIOSes (including ASUS A8N-E, but possibly others.)
        * chain.c32: support chainloaded bootloaders on ISOLINUX.
        * PXELINUX: allow filenames up to 251 characters.
        * MEMDISK: fix problems booting from USB on Thinkpads, and
          possibly other machines or hardware combinations.
        * isohybrid: fix the -id option.
        * HDT: updated to version 0.3.4.
        * MEMDISK: the stack size is now configurable, with the stack         
option.
        * Simple menu: fix Ctrl-W (word erase) in command-line edit.
        * Simple menu: fix crash on some platforms.
        * Gfxboot: fixes to the configuration file parsing.
        * PXELINUX: add a tool to override specific DHCP options via
          values hardcoded in the pxelinux.0 file.  These hardcoded
          values can be either "before DHCP" (defaults if DHCP do not
          provide values), or "after DHCP" (overrides DHCP).  The tool
          pxelinux-options can be used to set these options.  This
          feature does not apply to gpxelinux.0; when used with gPXE
          this is better handled by modifying the embedded script.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        3.83
Entered-date:   2009-10-05

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.

                This version includes gPXE, to allow accessing network
                files via other protocols than TFTP.

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
                3905194 2009-10-05 15:08 syslinux-3.83.tar.gz
                4812308 2009-10-05 15:08 syslinux-3.83.zip
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and NASM 0.98.39 or
                later required to build from source.  A future version will
                require NASM 2.00 or later.
Copying-policy: GPL, MIT
End

>         * MEMDISK: fix problems booting from USB on Thinkpads, and
>         * MEMDISK: the stack size is now configurable, with the stack
I'm guessing this means that memdisk-iso isn't included yet?

Is there still a deadlock in the merge process:
> > > H. Peter: If you feel like reviewing/merging, could I 
> request that 
> > > you cherry-pick the commits instead of merging?  That 
> would help me 
> > > to identify bugs in the future.  Thanks!
> > 
> > That's a bit of a strange request?  Normally a merge would be a
lot
> > better.  If you want a clean string of commits, you 
> probably want to 
> > produce a rebased branch for me to merge instead...
> 
> 
> The above posting didn't get a follow-up until now.
> 
> I wonder who is waiting for who.
> 
> Stappers
Cheers,
Daniel

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have just released Syslinux 3.83.  Special thanks to my employer,
> Intel, for letting me spend time on this.
>
> It is somewhat of a meager release despite four months, as most of the
> work has gone into the future-work branches.
It is NOT meager. It contains HDT 0.3.4 ! :-)

Thanks Peter and Erwan and everyone that worked on it...
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