Syslinux - Jun 2013 - Syslinux 5.10 released

Folks,

Finally, Syslinux 5.10 has been released. This release includes a merge
of the 4.10 development branch, which means that there's a new network
stack availble, based on the lwIP embedded TCP/IP stack. The jump from
the previous 5.01 release to 5.10 may be a little confusing, but a new
network stack is such a large change that it deserved a significant bump
in the version minor number.

To use the new stack you'll need to deploy lpxelinux.0. Using
lpxelinux.0 gets you support for HTTP/FTP out of the box. The legacy
stack is still available as pxelinux.0.

Also a number of regressions have been fixed that were introduced in
Syslinux 5.00. The shortlog appended below shows the changes since
Syslinux-5.10-pre1 because I've just realised I didn't send an
announcement for -pre2.

There are still a number of fairly important bugs that are causing
people issues and unfortunately I haven't had the time to fix them in
this release. But they are still on the TODO list.

---

H. Peter Anvin (3):
      pxe: disentangle the legacy and lwip stacks without #ifdef
      font: load data as a single block
      serial: Clean up and abstract handling of serial ports

Josh Triplett (1):
      Fix support for Linux kernel images with no protected mode code

Matt Fleming (12):
      ldlinux: Always update ConfigName when opening a config file
      readconfig: Don't display "(null)" labels when hitting TAB
      Partially revert "pxe: Pass absolute path to pxe_chdir()"
      ldlinux: Fixup lwip merge botch
      pxe: Fix compiler warnings and real bug
      load_linux: update errno before returning
      linux: Clear up error message
      font: increment pointer to fontbuf by font height
      serial: fix SERIAL directive for ports > 0
      font: write to 'fontbuf', not random memory
      NEWS: Clarify network stack files
      NEWS: Mention noteworthy changes in 5.10

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

On 06/04/2013 06:16 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Finally, Syslinux 5.10 has been released. This release includes a merge
> of the 4.10 development branch, which means that there's a new network
> stack availble, based on the lwIP embedded TCP/IP stack. The jump from
> the previous 5.01 release to 5.10 may be a little confusing, but a new
> network stack is such a large change that it deserved a significant bump
> in the version minor number.
> 
> To use the new stack you'll need to deploy lpxelinux.0. Using
> lpxelinux.0 gets you support for HTTP/FTP out of the box. The legacy
> stack is still available as pxelinux.0.
> 
> Also a number of regressions have been fixed that were introduced in
> Syslinux 5.00. The shortlog appended below shows the changes since
> Syslinux-5.10-pre1 because I've just realised I didn't send an
> announcement for -pre2.
> 
> There are still a number of fairly important bugs that are causing
> people issues and unfortunately I haven't had the time to fix them in
> this release. But they are still on the TODO list.
> 
> ---
> 
> H. Peter Anvin (3):
>       pxe: disentangle the legacy and lwip stacks without #ifdef
>       font: load data as a single block
>       serial: Clean up and abstract handling of serial ports
> 
> Josh Triplett (1):
>       Fix support for Linux kernel images with no protected mode code
> 
> Matt Fleming (12):
>       ldlinux: Always update ConfigName when opening a config file
>       readconfig: Don't display "(null)" labels when hitting
TAB
>       Partially revert "pxe: Pass absolute path to pxe_chdir()"
>       ldlinux: Fixup lwip merge botch
>       pxe: Fix compiler warnings and real bug
>       load_linux: update errno before returning
>       linux: Clear up error message
>       font: increment pointer to fontbuf by font height
>       serial: fix SERIAL directive for ports > 0
>       font: write to 'fontbuf', not random memory
>       NEWS: Clarify network stack files
>       NEWS: Mention noteworthy changes in 5.10
> 
Nice, thanks for this release.

I guess can be a good time, to take again issues with PXE booting with
special dhcp-options 209, 210, that I recently tested with 5.10 (but
using the new stack) and still fails. Sending details again in a new
message if needed...

PS: gpxelinux.0 looks broken, at least on qemu-1.5.0, the machine is
rebooted automatically, too quickly to read what happens. (lpxelinux.0
and pxelinux.0 works)

-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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On 06/04/2013 09:58 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> 
> Nice, thanks for this release.
> 
> I guess can be a good time, to take again issues with PXE booting
> with special dhcp-options 209, 210, that I recently tested with
> 5.10 (but using the new stack) and still fails. Sending details
> again in a new message if needed...
> 
> PS: gpxelinux.0 looks broken, at least on qemu-1.5.0, the machine
> is rebooted automatically, too quickly to read what happens.
> (lpxelinux.0 and pxelinux.0 works)
> 
We should drop the bundled gpxelinux.0.  It uses a very slightly
forked and ancient gPXE snapshot; stock iPXE is better, but I suspect
it is better to just have people get iPXE from iPXE...

	-hpa

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> On 06/04/2013 06:16 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Finally, Syslinux 5.10 has been released. This release includes a merge
>> of the 4.10 development branch, which means that there's a new
network
>> stack availble, based on the lwIP embedded TCP/IP stack. The jump from
>> the previous 5.01 release to 5.10 may be a little confusing, but a new
>> network stack is such a large change that it deserved a significant
bump
>> in the version minor number.
> Nice, thanks for this release.
>
> I guess can be a good time, to take again issues with PXE booting with
> special dhcp-options 209, 210, that I recently tested with 5.10 (but
> using the new stack) and still fails. Sending details again in a new
> message if needed...
Using pxechn.c32, I'm having no issues with options 209/210 to
Syslinux-5.10 official core/pxelinux.0 or core/lpxelinux.0.

Is there any chance you could do a packet capture?  I'm going to try
to get an experiment with forcing these options but not sure my dhcpd
will comply.

--
-Gene