[syslinux] Display graphic from filename broken?

H. Peter Anvin
Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:49:14 -0000

On 10/30/2014 07:25 AM, Ady wrote:
>
> Yes, the lss16 support for DISPLAY files is broken since Syslinux 5+.
> This has been reported in this Syslinux Mailing List several times
> already, and there is also a bug report for it
> http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10 .
>
> FWIW, version 5.xx has many other problems, part of them resolved in
> 6.03 (but the lss16 issue is not yet resolved).
>
> I hope your initial scrutiny of the source code can bring up an
> actual solution / patches for both, Syslinux CLI and menu parsers
> (and if possible for both, BIOS and UEFI).
>
> Any developers willing to look at this issue and actually solve it?
>

Just a huge lack of time.  We should support all image formats for this.

	-hpa