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13 years agocore: remove HAS_LOCALBOOT
Sebastian Herbszt [Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:32:54 +0000 (22:32 +0200)]
core: remove HAS_LOCALBOOT

HAS_LOCALBOOT is set unconditionally in config.inc.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
13 years agoNEWS: document fix for non-partitioned devices. syslinux-4.04-pre3
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:55:12 +0000 (09:55 -0800)]
NEWS: document fix for non-partitioned devices.

13 years agocore, diskstart: add more sanity checks for handover info
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:53:42 +0000 (09:53 -0800)]
core, diskstart: add more sanity checks for handover info

In particular, somehow we failed to actually test for DS:SI = 0:0!
This tests both for SI < 16 and DS:SI < 1024.  The former of those
tests is a bit iffy and probably should be removed.

This should also be promoted into isohdpfx.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
13 years agosyslinux.ld: ld 2.20.51 seems to want .bss16 explicitly (NOLOAD)
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:51:33 +0000 (09:51 -0800)]
syslinux.ld: ld 2.20.51 seems to want .bss16 explicitly (NOLOAD)

ld 2.20.51 seems to want the .bss16 explicitly marked (NOLOAD).  We do
that for most of the other bss sections, so we might as well.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
13 years agomemdiskfind: abstract get page size so we can compile against klibc
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:35:01 +0000 (16:35 -0800)]
memdiskfind: abstract get page size so we can compile against klibc

klibc doesn't have sysconf(), because it involves a hideously
inefficient multiplex.  Thus, if _SC_PAGESIZE is not defined, invoke
getpagesize().  Call the routine get_page_size() so it doesn't
conflict on a platform which has both sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) and
getpagesize().

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
13 years agoNEWS: further updates syslinux-4.04-pre2
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 00:02:12 +0000 (16:02 -0800)]
NEWS: further updates

13 years agoMerge remote branch 'genec/news-for-hpa'
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 00:00:58 +0000 (16:00 -0800)]
Merge remote branch 'genec/news-for-hpa'

13 years agocom32: fix a ffile descriptor leak on open() of a nonexistent file
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:54:24 +0000 (15:54 -0800)]
com32: fix a ffile descriptor leak on open() of a nonexistent file

If we try to open a nonexistent file, free the resulting file
descriptor.

Reported-by: Antonio Carlini <arcarlini@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
13 years agogfxboot: require LABEL keywords
Sebastian Herbszt [Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:43:45 +0000 (21:43 +0100)]
gfxboot: require LABEL keywords

Require LABEL keywords in config file.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
13 years agogfxboot: support TEXT and ENDTEXT keywords
Sebastian Herbszt [Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:34:42 +0000 (21:34 +0100)]
gfxboot: support TEXT and ENDTEXT keywords

Support TEXT and ENDTEXT keywords; ignore the help text.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
13 years agoNEWS: Update for 4.04 as of 4.04-pre1
Gene Cumm [Sat, 4 Dec 2010 02:18:08 +0000 (21:18 -0500)]
NEWS: Update for 4.04 as of 4.04-pre1

13 years agoBump version to 4.04 syslinux-4.04-pre1
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:04:35 +0000 (16:04 -0800)]
Bump version to 4.04

14 years agoman: remove long-since-obsolete note about name mangling
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:08:47 +0000 (12:08 -0800)]
man: remove long-since-obsolete note about name mangling

We haven't mangled label names for a very long time...

14 years agocore, pxe: Fix handling of unqualified DNS names
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:14:49 +0000 (13:14 -0800)]
core, pxe: Fix handling of unqualified DNS names

Actually append the domain name to the end of an unqualified DNS name
like we should have done all along.

Reported-by: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdisk: use char array for external symbols
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:13:25 +0000 (13:13 -0800)]
memdisk: use char array for external symbols

Use "extern const char foo[];" for an external symbol rather than
"extern void" (gcc 4.5 fix.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agogfxboot: use a character array for an absolute symbol
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:12:28 +0000 (13:12 -0800)]
gfxboot: use a character array for an absolute symbol

The best way to access an absolute symbol is "extern const char
foo[];" -- older gccs let you get away with "extern void" but gcc 4.5
chokes on it.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodisklib: remove improper "inline"
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:11:30 +0000 (13:11 -0800)]
disklib: remove improper "inline"

Remove improper inlines from static functions which cause gcc 4.5 to
abort due to inlining failure.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocom32: add a centralized bitops header
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:09:48 +0000 (13:09 -0800)]
com32: add a centralized bitops header

Add a centralized bitops header <sys/bitops.h> which uses x86 bitops
instructions.  This is necessary to keep gcc 4.5 from aborting
compilation due to the inlined code being larger than the non-inlined
version, and well, we should really use the bitops.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'genec-rosh-for-hpa', remote branches 'genec/sample-make-for-hpa', ...
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:51:07 +0000 (12:51 -0800)]
Merge branch 'genec-rosh-for-hpa', remote branches 'genec/sample-make-for-hpa', 'genec/drmk-ver-for-hpa' and 'genec/pxechain-for-hpa'

14 years agoPXELINUX: shorten code in pxenv call
Gene Cumm [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:29:08 +0000 (11:29 -0500)]
PXELINUX: shorten code in pxenv call

Now that both scenarios are clear (do/do not call timer_cleanup/
timer_init), shorten it to eliminate a needless jmp.

14 years agoPXELINUX: add gPXE PXENV_FILE_EXEC in addition to PXENV_RESTART_TFTP; comments
Gene Cumm [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:22:54 +0000 (11:22 -0500)]
PXELINUX: add gPXE PXENV_FILE_EXEC in addition to PXENV_RESTART_TFTP; comments

Both of these calls will not return if successful

14 years agover.com: Update some of how DRMK is handled
Gene Cumm [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:15 +0000 (08:09 -0400)]
ver.com: Update some of how DRMK is handled

14 years agoPXELINUX: Fix timer bug
Gene Cumm [Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:32:52 +0000 (13:32 -0400)]
PXELINUX: Fix timer bug

Certain calls to the PXE stack could potentially remove us from
memory.  Revert the INT 1Ch timer to its previous state.

14 years agover.com: Fix month calculation for DRMK Build Date
Gene Cumm [Wed, 3 Nov 2010 02:52:09 +0000 (22:52 -0400)]
ver.com: Fix month calculation for DRMK Build Date

14 years agosample/Makefile: re-add the include
Gene Cumm [Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:01:24 +0000 (13:01 -0400)]
sample/Makefile: re-add the include

Without the include, .ppm.gz to .lss messes up as $(GZIPPROG) is
not expanded properly

14 years agomodules/Makefile: add ver.com
Gene Cumm [Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:59:47 +0000 (12:59 -0400)]
modules/Makefile: add ver.com

14 years agover.com: Fixed width number output; Conditional skip DOS serial
Gene Cumm [Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:56:36 +0000 (12:56 -0400)]
ver.com: Fixed width number output; Conditional skip DOS serial

Create two functions, writedecb[23], to output a byte AL as fixed with of
2 or 3 characters wide, 0 prepend

If all of the DOS Serialnumber is 0, don't bother with printing anything.

14 years agover.com: Compact file by reuse of string
Gene Cumm [Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:03:23 +0000 (20:03 -0400)]
ver.com: Compact file by reuse of string

14 years agover.com: Update to pull info from DRMK
Gene Cumm [Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:30:30 +0000 (17:30 -0400)]
ver.com: Update to pull info from DRMK

14 years agocore/writedec: Remove writechr; fix overflow in .cloop
Gene Cumm [Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:15:41 +0000 (17:15 -0400)]
core/writedec: Remove writechr; fix overflow in .cloop

writechr is found in other files and this prevents a compile error.

14 years agover.com: Import from previously private branch as new file
Gene Cumm [Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:14:53 +0000 (10:14 -0400)]
ver.com: Import from previously private branch as new file

14 years agogfxboot: fix buffer overrun when loading kernel/initramfs syslinux-4.03
Colin Watson [Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:23:02 +0000 (21:23 +0200)]
gfxboot: fix buffer overrun when loading kernel/initramfs

If the file size wasn't a multiple of 64KB, we could overwrite the next
entry in the malloc arena so reading the initramfs would fail.

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agorosh: rosh_argcat now has length. if DO_DEBUG, show startup command
Gene Cumm [Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:07:02 +0000 (08:07 -0400)]
rosh: rosh_argcat now has length.  if DO_DEBUG, show startup command

14 years agorosh: display command entered and a command unknown message when not known
Gene Cumm [Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:58:31 +0000 (07:58 -0400)]
rosh: display command entered and a command unknown message when not known

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'liu/master' syslinux-4.03-pre6
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:41:02 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'liu/master'

14 years agochain.c32: DRMK: Fix comment at top of source
Gene Cumm [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:50:58 +0000 (23:50 -0400)]
chain.c32: DRMK: Fix comment at top of source

14 years agochain.c32: DRMK: Add comment about only using a DWORD for partition offset
Gene Cumm [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:51:06 +0000 (19:51 -0400)]
chain.c32: DRMK: Add comment about only using a DWORD for partition offset

14 years agochain.c32: DRMK: clean up output; clean up and correct comments
Gene Cumm [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:39:19 +0000 (19:39 -0400)]
chain.c32: DRMK: clean up output; clean up and correct comments

14 years agochain.c: Progress on DRMK and notes that it's not perfect yet.
Gene Cumm [Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:34:32 +0000 (12:34 -0400)]
chain.c: Progress on DRMK and notes that it's not perfect yet.

14 years agoMerge branch 'master' into rosh_for_hpa
Gene Cumm [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:32:13 +0000 (16:32 -0400)]
Merge branch 'master' into rosh_for_hpa

14 years agorosh: add another item in the ToDos comment
Gene Cumm [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:28:53 +0000 (16:28 -0400)]
rosh: add another item in the ToDos comment

14 years agogfxboot: add include and menu include support syslinux-4.03-pre5
Colin Watson [Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:11:14 +0000 (14:11 +0100)]
gfxboot: add include and menu include support

Ubuntu CDs use multiple configuration files and the include directive as
well as gfxboot, so it's useful for gfxboot to support these.

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodoc: extlinux falls back to syslinux.cfg
Ferenc Wagner [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:55:52 +0000 (17:55 +0200)]
doc: extlinux falls back to syslinux.cfg

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodoc: reorganize config file intro
Ferenc Wagner [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:55:51 +0000 (17:55 +0200)]
doc: reorganize config file intro

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodoc: comments don't need a leading space
Ferenc Wagner [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:55:50 +0000 (17:55 +0200)]
doc: comments don't need a leading space

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agochain.c32: make CHS calculation match core/fs/diskio.c
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:46:15 +0000 (22:46 -0700)]
chain.c32: make CHS calculation match core/fs/diskio.c

Use the same format for the CHS calculation as in core/fs/diskio.c;
also, apply the correct limits, and propagate the fix to the write
routine.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agostrspn.c: drop "inline"
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:42:27 +0000 (22:42 -0700)]
strspn.c: drop "inline"

Drop "inline" from bit operations.  These should be recoded to use x86
bts/bt instructions, but for now just drop the "inline" which causes
failures on gcc 4.5 due to inlining failures.

Reported-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoNEWS: Update for 4.03
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:40:46 +0000 (22:40 -0700)]
NEWS: Update for 4.03

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoisohybrid: Use ftruncate instead of seek for final padding
P J P [Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:38:37 +0000 (12:08 +0530)]
isohybrid: Use ftruncate instead of seek for final padding

Pad the image via ftruncate instead of seeking to the end (which was
done incorrectly).

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agochain.c32: fix conversion from LBA to CHS
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:31:09 +0000 (22:31 -0700)]
chain.c32: fix conversion from LBA to CHS

Bits [9:8] of the cylinder goes into the top bits of the sector
register, not the bottom (and the math for that was wrong, anyway.)

Reported-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agorosh: Fix rosh_ls(); fix FTBFS on rosh_more(); add ROSH_DEBUG2_ARGV_V macro
Gene Cumm [Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:28:48 +0000 (11:28 -0400)]
rosh: Fix rosh_ls(); fix FTBFS on rosh_more(); add ROSH_DEBUG2_ARGV_V macro

14 years agolib: Update memmem function
Liu Aleaxander [Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:10:14 +0000 (23:10 +0800)]
lib: Update memmem function

The current memem implementation can not handle the case that the length
of the third parameter(needle) is equal *ONE*. So that the current
strstr implemention doesn't work when the lenght of substring is ONE.

For example, strstr("linux", "l") it will return NULL instead of
"linux", which is not right.

This code is stolen from klibc ;)

Signed-off-by: Liu Aleaxander <Aleaxander@gmail.com>
14 years agounistd.h: Add missing getopt declarations
Gene Cumm [Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:32:46 +0000 (08:32 -0400)]
unistd.h: Add missing getopt declarations

14 years agoMerge branch 'master' into rosh_for_hpa
Gene Cumm [Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:41:12 +0000 (07:41 -0400)]
Merge branch 'master' into rosh_for_hpa

14 years agorosh: Remove unneeded cases in rosh_command() switch statements
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:28:02 +0000 (18:28 -0400)]
rosh: Remove unneeded cases in rosh_command() switch statements

14 years agorosh: Clean up rosh_command to remove old stuff
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 16:05:45 +0000 (12:05 -0400)]
rosh: Clean up rosh_command to remove old stuff

14 years agorosh: code cleanup
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:02:11 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
rosh: code cleanup

14 years agorosh: Change rosh_ls()/rosh_dir() to use argc/argv; use getopt()
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:24:38 +0000 (09:24 -0400)]
rosh: Change rosh_ls()/rosh_dir() to use argc/argv; use getopt()

14 years agorosh: Change rosh_more()/rosh_less() to use argc/argv
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:15:52 +0000 (09:15 -0400)]
rosh: Change rosh_more()/rosh_less() to use argc/argv

14 years agorosh: remove cmdstr from rosh_pwd()
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:22:59 +0000 (07:22 -0400)]
rosh: remove cmdstr from rosh_pwd()

14 years agorosh: clear errno before possibly using it. might be set by a previous call
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:17:54 +0000 (07:17 -0400)]
rosh: clear errno before possibly using it.  might be set by a previous call

14 years agorosh: Add argc/argv rosh_reboot(); Allow warm reboots
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:12:06 +0000 (07:12 -0400)]
rosh: Add argc/argv rosh_reboot(); Allow warm reboots

14 years agorosh: In main, use string macro directly
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:00:25 +0000 (07:00 -0400)]
rosh: In main, use string macro directly

14 years agorosh: Change rosh_run() to use argc/argv
Gene Cumm [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:59:44 +0000 (06:59 -0400)]
rosh: Change rosh_run() to use argc/argv

14 years agorosh: Change rosh_help() to use the string passed to it directly
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:20:07 +0000 (13:20 -0400)]
rosh: Change rosh_help() to use the string passed to it directly

14 years agorosh: ROSH_DEBUG_ARGV_V in header
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 05:11:23 +0000 (01:11 -0400)]
rosh: ROSH_DEBUG_ARGV_V in header

14 years agorosh: convert rosh_cat() to argc/argv
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 05:10:49 +0000 (01:10 -0400)]
rosh: convert rosh_cat() to argc/argv

14 years agorosh: Add function header comments that were missing
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 05:05:03 +0000 (01:05 -0400)]
rosh: Add function header comments that were missing

14 years agorosh: Fix warning on rosh_ls_arg(); remove rosh_echo() for rosh_pr_argv()
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:55:02 +0000 (00:55 -0400)]
rosh: Fix warning on rosh_ls_arg(); remove rosh_echo() for rosh_pr_argv()

14 years agorosh: Rename function as it's verbose
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:43:24 +0000 (00:43 -0400)]
rosh: Rename function as it's verbose

rosh_pr_argv and ROSH_DEBUG_ARGV are verbose, printing the
argument number and single-quoted string out.

14 years agorosh: closedir() only if actually opened
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:18:27 +0000 (00:18 -0400)]
rosh: closedir() only if actually opened

14 years agorosh: compact previous commit
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:16:54 +0000 (00:16 -0400)]
rosh: compact previous commit

14 years agorosh: Fix rosh_ls_arg() to prevent segfault on access denied
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:13:38 +0000 (00:13 -0400)]
rosh: Fix rosh_ls_arg() to prevent segfault on access denied

14 years agorosh: main, prompt and command try to use argc/argv mostly
Gene Cumm [Sat, 2 Oct 2010 04:03:29 +0000 (00:03 -0400)]
rosh: main, prompt and command try to use argc/argv mostly

prompt still uses a string but parses it and passes the parsed
argc/argv pair to command.  main doesn't need a string anymore

14 years agorosh: rosh_cd fix DEBUG
Gene Cumm [Fri, 1 Oct 2010 03:11:10 +0000 (23:11 -0400)]
rosh: rosh_cd fix DEBUG

14 years agorosh: fix errors in previous commit
Gene Cumm [Fri, 1 Oct 2010 03:08:24 +0000 (23:08 -0400)]
rosh: fix errors in previous commit

14 years agorosh: change rosh_cd() to use argc/argv
Gene Cumm [Fri, 1 Oct 2010 03:03:35 +0000 (23:03 -0400)]
rosh: change rosh_cd() to use argc/argv

14 years agorosh: Use internal parser for argc/argv; use argc/argv in rosh_command
Gene Cumm [Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:41:21 +0000 (22:41 -0400)]
rosh: Use internal parser for argc/argv; use argc/argv in rosh_command

14 years agorosh: start parse_args(); prep for use; make print_argv()
Gene Cumm [Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:06:10 +0000 (22:06 -0400)]
rosh: start parse_args(); prep for use; make print_argv()

parse_args() for parsing a string into an argv/argc pair for easier
parsing and the potential use of getopt().

print_argv() for printing an argv/argc pair to show functionality

14 years agorosh: fix commented out WS usage in linux to grab screen size
Gene Cumm [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:56:28 +0000 (11:56 -0400)]
rosh: fix commented out WS usage in linux to grab screen size

14 years agorosh: add echo
Gene Cumm [Fri, 9 Jul 2010 00:05:39 +0000 (20:05 -0400)]
rosh: add echo

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'genec/rosh_for_hpa' syslinux-4.03-pre4
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:46:26 +0000 (13:46 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'genec/rosh_for_hpa'

14 years agocore: fix handling new directory "/" for CONFIG in ISOLINUX and EXTLINUX
Gene Cumm [Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:51:14 +0000 (21:51 -0400)]
core: fix handling new directory "/" for CONFIG in ISOLINUX and EXTLINUX

14 years agoFix missing option -s in libinstaller syslinux-4.03-pre3
Arwin Vosselman [Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:17:30 +0000 (22:17 +0200)]
Fix missing option -s in libinstaller

In 'libinstaller/syslxopt.c' on line 71 the "s" (undercast) is missing in:

   const char short_options[] = "t:fid:UuzS:H:rvho:OM:ma";

Adding the 's' there seems to solve our problem.

14 years agopxe: add a "pxeretry" option to deal with 404's in web apps syslinux-4.03-pre2
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:45:53 +0000 (14:45 -0700)]
pxe: add a "pxeretry" option to deal with 404's in web apps

For web downloads, sometimes a mirror site will not be fully synced.
Add an option to retry the open a specific number of times before
giving up.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoextlinux: try to get the disk offset from sysfs
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:27:44 +0000 (17:27 -0700)]
extlinux: try to get the disk offset from sysfs

It is possible(?) that HDIO_GETGEO can't return the full offset, and
in either case it is too small -- only 32 bits on 32-bit platforms.
Thus query sysfs for the real value, if available.

sysfs also contains information for slave devices -- this is going to
really matter for the md/lvm issues.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: remove redundant register write
Don Hiatt [Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:51:12 +0000 (09:51 -0700)]
diskio: remove redundant register write

The disk number is set twice in diskio.c/edd_rdwr_sectors() this patch
removes the redundant setting.

14 years agoversion: next version will be 4.03 syslinux-4.03-pre1
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:50:48 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
version: next version will be 4.03

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocore: look for invalid MBR handover information address
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:42:51 +0000 (10:42 -0700)]
core: look for invalid MBR handover information address

The Win7 MBR doesn't provide proper handover information.  Instead, it
leaves DS:SI = 0:0x7e00, so reject that information as invalid on
grounds that it is pointed into the bootloader area.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agochain: Extra comments; shrink the new space to minimum
Gene Cumm [Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:55:27 +0000 (12:55 -0400)]
chain: Extra comments; shrink the new space to minimum

14 years agochain: Just assign the value rather than using memcpy()
Gene Cumm [Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:39:19 +0000 (12:39 -0400)]
chain: Just assign the value rather than using memcpy()

14 years agochain: add drmk= to usage
Gene Cumm [Sun, 1 Aug 2010 14:23:51 +0000 (10:23 -0400)]
chain: add drmk= to usage

14 years agochain: Fix up and clean up DRMK load code; fix filename length; Patch memory.
Gene Cumm [Sun, 1 Aug 2010 14:23:00 +0000 (10:23 -0400)]
chain: Fix up and clean up DRMK load code; fix filename length;  Patch memory.

14 years agochain.c32: prepare for loading DRMK
Gene Cumm [Sun, 1 Aug 2010 03:14:06 +0000 (23:14 -0400)]
chain.c32: prepare for loading DRMK

14 years agosyslxopt: remove lengthy warning message
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:20:08 +0000 (10:20 -0700)]
syslxopt: remove lengthy warning message

Remove a lengthy warning message which cause the actual command
reference to overflow a 24-line screen.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosyslxopt: fix fatal warnings
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:17:52 +0000 (10:17 -0700)]
syslxopt: fix fatal warnings

Fix fatal warnings in syslxopt.c partly due to legal but non-idiomatic
use of switch().  Since the only purpose was to conditionalize single
output statements, just do it explicitly.

In addition, since they are conditional messages, there is no need to
explain when they apply.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agochain.c: fix public index value in mbr and gpt iterators
Michal Soltys [Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:07 +0000 (08:46 +0200)]
chain.c: fix public index value in mbr and gpt iterators

mbr and gpt iterators skip empty / non-data partitions properly, but don't
update publicly visible index. With this patch, such partitions are counted as
well.

Signed-off-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agolibinstaller/syslxopt.c: remove unneeded usage text from certain variants.
Gene Cumm [Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:58:46 +0000 (18:58 -0400)]
libinstaller/syslxopt.c: remove unneeded usage text from certain variants.

Gert Hulselmans noticed this.

14 years agoMake __free_tagged actually free memory
Sebastian Herbszt [Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:46:57 +0000 (14:46 +0200)]
Make __free_tagged actually free memory

__free_tagged called by comboot_cleanup_lowmem (core/mem/free.c) doesn't
seem to work correctly. Memory allocated with lmalloc() isn't marked as free
after the allocating module exits:

boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x000353e0
boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x000553f0
boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x00075400
boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x00000000
boot:

The expected behaviour

boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x000353e0
boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x000353e0
boot: mem
lowmem_buf: 0x000353e0

can be achieved with the following patch.

14 years agoMerge branch 'm' into rosh_for_hpa
Gene Cumm [Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:54:37 +0000 (22:54 -0400)]
Merge branch 'm' into rosh_for_hpa