Syslinux - Mar 2014 - Very slow download with pxelinux > 4.07 on specific hardware

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Eric PEYREMORTE
<eric.peyremorte at iut-valence.fr> wrote:
> Le 11/03/2014 15:27, Ady a ?crit :
>
>>> Le 11/03/2014 10:32, Eric PEYREMORTE a ?crit :
>>> Some news here. I didn't test with 5.01 yet (didn't see
that one sorry).
>>> With 5.01 i don't have any problem. Problems begin with 5.10.
>>> --
>>> Eric PEYREMORTE
>>
>>   Hello Eric:
>>
>> To sum up your report:
>> _ 4.0x works;
>> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
>> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
>> _ 5.10 (lwip merge into elflink) fails;
>>
>> I wonder if testing 6.03-pre5 (which is *not* the latest) pre-built
>> binaries (look under the bios/ directory) would work OK for you.
>>
>> If you happen to test it, please remember to use the pre-built
>> binaries already included in the official archive (as oppose to
>> rebuilding them, which could introduce undesirable interactions), and
>> to use all c32 files from the same 6.03-pre5 version (instead of
>> mixing files from different versions), specially including
>> ldlinux.c32, all lib*.c32 and all the rest of c32 modules (from the
>> same archive from which you take pxelinux.0, under some subdiretory
>> under "bios/").
>>
>> TIA,
>> Ady.
>
> Hello Ady,
>
> To sum up :
>
>
> _ 4.0x works;
> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
> _ 5.10 and beyond (lwip merge into elflink) fails; --> pxelinux.0 very
slow,
> lpxelinux.0 freezes (i don't get the menu)
>
> I just tried with 6.03 pre 5 :
> pxelinux.0 very slow
> lpxelinux.0 hangs displaying pxelinux 6.03 lwip
Could you try 5.10-pre1 or -pre2 from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/5.10/ ?


-- 
-Gene

Le 11/03/2014 17:54, Gene Cumm a ?crit :
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Eric PEYREMORTE
> <eric.peyremorte at iut-valence.fr> wrote:
>> Le 11/03/2014 15:27, Ady a ?crit :
>>
>>>> Le 11/03/2014 10:32, Eric PEYREMORTE a ?crit :
>>>> Some news here. I didn't test with 5.01 yet (didn't see
that one sorry).
>>>> With 5.01 i don't have any problem. Problems begin with
5.10.
>>>> --
>>>> Eric PEYREMORTE
>>>    Hello Eric:
>>>
>>> To sum up your report:
>>> _ 4.0x works;
>>> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
>>> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
>>> _ 5.10 (lwip merge into elflink) fails;
>>>
>>> I wonder if testing 6.03-pre5 (which is *not* the latest) pre-built
>>> binaries (look under the bios/ directory) would work OK for you.
>>>
>>> If you happen to test it, please remember to use the pre-built
>>> binaries already included in the official archive (as oppose to
>>> rebuilding them, which could introduce undesirable interactions),
and
>>> to use all c32 files from the same 6.03-pre5 version (instead of
>>> mixing files from different versions), specially including
>>> ldlinux.c32, all lib*.c32 and all the rest of c32 modules (from the
>>> same archive from which you take pxelinux.0, under some subdiretory
>>> under "bios/").
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Ady.
>> Hello Ady,
>>
>> To sum up :
>>
>>
>> _ 4.0x works;
>> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
>> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
>> _ 5.10 and beyond (lwip merge into elflink) fails; --> pxelinux.0
very slow,
>> lpxelinux.0 freezes (i don't get the menu)
>>
>> I just tried with 6.03 pre 5 :
>> pxelinux.0 very slow
>> lpxelinux.0 hangs displaying pxelinux 6.03 lwip
> Could you try 5.10-pre1 or -pre2 from
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/5.10/ ?
>
Thanks for the suggestion. Not better with both (very slow)

> >> Hello Ady,
> >>
> >> To sum up :
> >>
> >>
> >> _ 4.0x works;
> >> _ 4.10-pre22 (lwip branch) works;
> >> _ 5.01 (elflink branch) works;
> >> _ 5.10 and beyond (lwip merge into elflink) fails; -->
pxelinux.0 very slow,
> >> lpxelinux.0 freezes (i don't get the menu)
> >>
> >> I just tried with 6.03 pre 5 :
> >> pxelinux.0 very slow
> >> lpxelinux.0 hangs displaying pxelinux 6.03 lwip
> > Could you try 5.10-pre1 or -pre2 from
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/5.10/ ?
> >
> Thanks for the suggestion. Not better with both (very slow)
 
Hi Eric,

Could you please perform similar tests with official Syslinux 
5.02-pre{3,2,1}?

 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/5.02/ 

 The intention is to narrow down the problematic commit(s) by 
identifying which pre-release is the last to work correctly and the 
first with a different behavior.

As usual, please use the pre-built binaries from each archive, all 
from the same respective version as each pxelinux.0 to be tested, 
including ldlinux.c32, lib*.c32 and any additional c32 module.

TIA,
Ady.