Hi, Le 18/06/2020 ? 22:24, Tom Huibregtse via Syslinux a ?crit?:> I am a UEFI/BIOS developer. We UEFI PXE boot dozens of times per night. We have run into this error more than a couple of times. We have also done thousands of UEFI PXE boots with debug statements to prove that the patch works.<snip> As far as I can tell, the development of Syslinux has stalled since more than one year as shows the log of the git repository. And if I remember well many very old patches are still in the waiting list. If you don't want to continue maintaining your patches, either fork syslinux (good luck) or more realistically if possible move to an active project. GRUB comes to mind. Sorry not to give a more relevant answer. Have a good day, Didier
Gregory Bartholomew
2020-Jun-18 22:37 UTC
[syslinux] [PATCH] efi/main: add retry to exit_boot()
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:09 PM Didier Spaier via Syslinux < syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:> > As far as I can tell, the development of Syslinux has stalled since more > than one year as shows the log of the git repository. And if I remember > well many very old patches are still in the waiting list. >FWIW, this is one of the last posts I see from H. Peter Anvin: https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2019-November/026599.html I think he might be involved in some ongoing work to remove x32 support from the linux kernel that might be exhausting his resources: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/1169 I don't know anything, I'm just speculating (derived from the above references).
Gregory Bartholomew
2020-Jun-18 22:55 UTC
[syslinux] [PATCH] efi/main: add retry to exit_boot()
P.S. Here is a search that you can paste into google that might help to illustrate that he really has been busy/active: site:lkml.org/lkml "hpa at zytor" ", 2020 " I don't think this project is by any means "dead". I think it has just taken a back seat to higher priorities.
Tom Huibregtse
2020-Jun-19 13:24 UTC
[syslinux] [PATCH] efi/main: add retry to exit_boot()
I had noticed that development activity had slowed down. I did not realize just how stalled it had become though, so thank you for filling me in. We are going to maintain our own copy locally, but we did want to contribute this fix. With legacy booting on its way out eventually, more systems will be UEFI PXE booting, so this issue is more likely to come up. From: "syslinux" <syslinux at syslinux.org> To: "Didier Spaier" <didier at slint.fr> Cc: "syslinux" <syslinux at syslinux.org> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 5:37:07 PM Subject: Re: [syslinux] [PATCH] efi/main: add retry to exit_boot() On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:09 PM Didier Spaier via Syslinux < syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:> > As far as I can tell, the development of Syslinux has stalled since more > than one year as shows the log of the git repository. And if I remember > well many very old patches are still in the waiting list. >FWIW, this is one of the last posts I see from H. Peter Anvin: https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2019-November/026599.html I think he might be involved in some ongoing work to remove x32 support from the linux kernel that might be exhausting his resources: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/1169 I don't know anything, I'm just speculating (derived from the above references). _______________________________________________ Syslinux mailing list Submissions to Syslinux at syslinux.org Unsubscribe or set options at: https://lists.syslinux.org/syslinux