doc: Recommend NASM 2.07+

Recommend NASM 2.07+ to avoid the overlong instructions problem around
NASM 2.05.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ab7f8d..971ef09 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ Changes in 4.00:
          instead of downwards, in order to avoid a fairly common
          bug on some BIOSes where probing drive 0xFF causes a
          failure.
-       * NASM 2.03 or later required to build.
+       * NASM 2.03 or later required to build.  2.07 or later
+          recommended.
 
 Changes in 3.86:
        * chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken

diff --git a/README b/README
index d660638..ff905aa 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ Also see the files:
        COPYING             - For the license terms of this software.
 
 SYSLINUX now builds in a Linux environment, using nasm.  You need nasm
-version 2.03 or later to build SYSLINUX from source.  See
-http://www.nasm.us/ for information about nasm.
+version 2.03 or later (2.07 or later recommended) to build SYSLINUX
+from source.  See http://www.nasm.us/ for information about nasm.
 
 There is now a mailing list for SYSLINUX.  See the end of syslinux.txt
 for details.