profile/ivi/syslinux.git
13 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

13 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>
13 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'

13 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

13 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

13 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

13 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.

13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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'

13 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

13 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.

13 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>
13 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>
13 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.

13 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>
13 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>
13 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

13 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()

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

13 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.

13 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

13 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>
13 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>
13 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>
13 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.

13 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.

13 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

13 years agocore: define and use set_flags() helper
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:57:34 +0000 (13:57 -0700)]
core: define and use set_flags() helper

Rather than opencoding the arithmetic flag mask, define an inline to
make that happen properly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
13 years agosample: remove obsolete "raw" comboot/com32 samples
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:33:37 +0000 (13:33 -0700)]
sample: remove obsolete "raw" comboot/com32 samples

We really don't want people to write code without using the library,
so just remove these obsolete and no longer functional samples.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
13 years agolibmenu: Fix cursor on exit from showmenus()
Gene Cumm [Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:09:43 +0000 (15:09 -0400)]
libmenu: Fix cursor on exit from showmenus()

This fixes the issue in hdt.c32 that Kent Robotti noticed where
exiting directly from Menu Mode caused the cursor to not be displayed.
This same issue also affects com32/cmenu/simple.c32 and probably
others using showmenus().

Signed-off-by: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
13 years agocore: don't hang if no config file is found
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:27:37 +0000 (17:27 -0700)]
core: don't hang if no config file is found

If we can't find a configuration file, we need to do something
slightly more friendly than hanging.

Reported-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agowin64: experimental Win64 installer (syslinux64.exe) syslinux-4.02
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:33:13 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
win64: experimental Win64 installer (syslinux64.exe)

Experimental Win64 installer.  This is necessary to be able to run on
WinPE64, since WinPE64 doesn't support running 32-bit binaries.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agowin32: fix README, adjust broken +x bits
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:12 +0000 (12:00 -0700)]
win32: fix README, adjust broken +x bits

Fix the win32/README file and adjust some stray +x bits which had
crept in.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agolua: remove obsolete FIXME comment
Geert Stappers [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:12:36 +0000 (15:12 -0700)]
lua: remove obsolete FIXME comment

Remove an obsolete FIXME comment; the problem was caused by a stale
library.

14 years agoNEWS: document IP byte order fix. syslinux-4.02-pre5
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:45:18 +0000 (23:45 -0700)]
NEWS: document IP byte order fix.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxe: fix byte order of output from parse_dotquad()
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:42:41 +0000 (23:42 -0700)]
pxe: fix byte order of output from parse_dotquad()

parse_dotquad() incorrectly returned output in host byte order.

Reported-by: Alexander Wuerstlein <arw@arw.name>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoextlinux, linux: Ignore --force in these installers syslinux-4.02-pre4
Shao Miller [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:34:04 +0000 (23:34 -0400)]
extlinux, linux: Ignore --force in these installers

Previous commits described this behaviour, but did not
actually implement it. :)

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
14 years agodos: Use libinstaller option parser
Shao Miller [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:21:57 +0000 (23:21 -0400)]
dos: Use libinstaller option parser

We will produce an error message if a user attempts
to use an option we don't implement.

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
14 years agodos: add .size directives to int2526.S
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:36:12 +0000 (17:36 -0700)]
dos: add .size directives to int2526.S

Add .size directives to int2526.S.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos: add .size attribute for syslinux_ldlinux_len
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:33:22 +0000 (17:33 -0700)]
dos: add .size attribute for syslinux_ldlinux_len

Just for the sake of good order, a .size attribute for
syslinux_ldlinux_len.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos: add missing file ldlinux.S
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:30:30 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
dos: add missing file ldlinux.S

Add missing assembly wrapper for ldlinux.sys.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agowin32: remove an archive before running ar on it
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:28:25 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
win32: remove an archive before running ar on it

Always remove an archive before ar...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos, win32: use our own getopt_long() for both
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:23:16 +0000 (17:23 -0700)]
dos, win32: use our own getopt_long() for both

Use our own version of getopt_long() for both the DOS and Win32
installers.  Currently, on MinGW, getopt_long() is a static library,
but that could change in some installations.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos: fix non-executable files which were +x
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:15:44 +0000 (17:15 -0700)]
dos: fix non-executable files which were +x

Don't make non-executable files +x...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'master' into libinstaller_dos_wip
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:56:35 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into libinstaller_dos_wip

Resolved Conflicts:
libinstaller/syslxopt.c
mtools/syslinux.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos: advance the pointer correctly
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:37:00 +0000 (16:37 -0700)]
dos: advance the pointer correctly

Advance the pointer into the payload segment correctly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos: add memcpy_from_sl() and use it where appropriate
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:29:24 +0000 (16:29 -0700)]
dos: add memcpy_from_sl() and use it where appropriate

Add memcpy_from_sl() and use it to handle pointers into the payload
section.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodos: change the link procedure to use negative pointers below DGROUP
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:17:04 +0000 (16:17 -0700)]
dos: change the link procedure to use negative pointers below DGROUP

Use negative pointer values below DGROUP, i.e. for the .payload
segment.  This makes it a lot easier to figure out if we are dealing
with pointers that shouldn't come from where they do, since the DGROUP
and .payload segments no longer overlap, and in fact are congruent.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoNEWS: mtools, win32 uses new CLI
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:57:44 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
NEWS: mtools, win32 uses new CLI

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoman: update syslinux.1. It is still out of date, however.
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:55:16 +0000 (14:55 -0700)]
man: update syslinux.1.  It is still out of date, however.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoMerge remote branch 'gerth/lua'
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:18:24 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'gerth/lua'

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'gerth/ifplop_comments'
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:18:14 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'gerth/ifplop_comments'

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'sha0/for_hpa' syslinux-4.02-pre3
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:48:15 +0000 (10:48 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'sha0/for_hpa'

14 years agodiskio: add a paranoia cast
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:40:01 +0000 (12:40 -0700)]
diskio: add a paranoia cast

Make sure we don't overflow the shift, even though that should never
be possible.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodiskio: fix name for secpercyl field, remove unused type field
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:36:26 +0000 (12:36 -0700)]
diskio: fix name for secpercyl field, remove unused type field

Fix the name for the incorrectly named "t" (track) field; it is in
fact the sectors/cylinder (secpercyl) field.  Furthermore, remove the
completely unused "type" field... right now the pointer to the
rdwr_sectors field acts as a proxy, and if we need more complex stuff
in the future it is probably better handled by pointing to an ops
structure.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoNEWS: document EDD->CHS fallback. syslinux-4.02-pre2
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:38:16 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
NEWS: document EDD->CHS fallback.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: remove locally coded ilog2()
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:35:41 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
diskio: remove locally coded ilog2()

Use the centrally coded ilog2() function.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: expand most fields; cache the number of total tracks
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:33:39 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
diskio: expand most fields; cache the number of total tracks

Expand most fields in struct disk to 32 bits -- it makes the code
smaller in general, and struct disk is not a common data element.

Add a field for the number of tracks (number of heads*sectors).

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: move strict CHS start value check into chs_rdwr_sectors()
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:29:17 +0000 (16:29 -0700)]
diskio: move strict CHS start value check into chs_rdwr_sectors()

It really makes more sense in chs_rdwr_sectors()...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: check early for an impossible LBA value for CHS requests
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:25:53 +0000 (16:25 -0700)]
diskio: check early for an impossible LBA value for CHS requests

Make sure we don't end up trying to do a CHS request for a truly
absurd value, that could possibly be misconverted.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: when falling back EDD->CHS make sure to get the offset right
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:24:08 +0000 (16:24 -0700)]
diskio: when falling back EDD->CHS make sure to get the offset right

When we decide to go from EDD to CHS, make sure we convert from
absolute back to a partition offset.  The cylinder check should still
be on the absolute value, however.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: remove redundant sector count cap
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:20:22 +0000 (16:20 -0700)]
diskio: remove redundant sector count cap

The sector count cap on CHS is automatically given as a result of the
no-track-crossing rule.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agodiskio: allow fallback from EDD to CHS
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:18:16 +0000 (16:18 -0700)]
diskio: allow fallback from EDD to CHS

At least one system has been found which require fallback from EDD to
CHS, so actually make it doable.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoNEWS: Try again for proper lua.c32 credits
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:11:36 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
NEWS: Try again for proper lua.c32 credits

Trying again to get this right...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'master' of ssh://terminus.zytor.com/pub/git/syslinux/syslinux
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:06:21 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://terminus.zytor.com/pub/git/syslinux/syslinux

14 years agowhichsys.c32: Fix example in the comments and Usage output
Gert Hulselmans [Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:26:09 +0000 (00:26 +0200)]
whichsys.c32: Fix example in the comments and Usage output

Fix example in the comments and Usage output.

Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth@zytor.com>
14 years agoifplop.c32: Fix spelling errors and other mistakes in comments
Gert Hulselmans [Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:54:14 +0000 (23:54 +0200)]
ifplop.c32: Fix spelling errors and other mistakes in comments

Fix various spelling errors and other mistakes in the comment section.

Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth@zytor.com>
14 years agodoc: Recommend NASM 2.07+
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:06:21 +0000 (09:06 -0700)]
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>
14 years agodoc: NASM 2.03+ has been required since 4.00 at least
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:05:02 +0000 (09:05 -0700)]
doc: NASM 2.03+ has been required since 4.00 at least

At least since the 4.00 code was merged, NASM 2.03 or higher has been
required.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodos: Work-in-progress 2
Shao Miller [Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:47:55 +0000 (00:47 -0400)]
dos: Work-in-progress 2

14 years agowin32: Use libinstaller option parser
Shao Miller [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 20:23:44 +0000 (16:23 -0400)]
win32: Use libinstaller option parser

We will produce an error message if a user attempts
to use an option we don't implement.

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
14 years agomtools: Use libinstaller option parser
Shao Miller [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:04:16 +0000 (06:04 -0400)]
mtools: Use libinstaller option parser

We will produce an error message if a user attempts
to use an option we don't implement.

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
14 years agolibinstaller: Add --mbr, --active, and --force options
Shao Miller [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 07:47:25 +0000 (03:47 -0400)]
libinstaller: Add --mbr, --active, and --force options

In order to consolidate the installer option-parsing system,
we add the --mbr (-m), --active (-a), and --force (-f)
options from the DOS, Win32, and mtools installers to
libinstaller.

Since the -m and -a options are not currently valid for the
Linux 'syslinux' and 'extlinux' installers, we add error
messages to both of these.  The -f option is allowed but
does nothing for them.

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
14 years agoNEWS: correct credit for new Lua work.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:53:02 +0000 (14:53 -0700)]
NEWS: correct credit for new Lua work.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoNEWS: update syslinux-4.02-pre1
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:22:40 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
NEWS: update

Update in preparation of a 4.02 release cycle.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoDMI: Fixing memory mgmnt in dmi_memory_module_types
Laurent Licour [Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:53:22 +0000 (20:53 +0200)]
DMI: Fixing memory mgmnt in dmi_memory_module_types

In some case, dmi_memory_module_types could read the entire memory as a
result of a bogus snprintf usage.

14 years agorosh: show environment
Gene Cumm [Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:13:42 +0000 (11:13 -0400)]
rosh: show environment

14 years agorosh: more remove unneeded check
Gene Cumm [Mon, 5 Jul 2010 11:22:28 +0000 (07:22 -0400)]
rosh: more remove unneeded check

14 years agorosh: move ioctl.h include for Linux-only
Gene Cumm [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:59:24 +0000 (20:59 -0400)]
rosh: move ioctl.h include for Linux-only

14 years agorosh: bump build
Gene Cumm [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:11:03 +0000 (20:11 -0400)]
rosh: bump build

14 years agorosh: more: overallocation, better feedback for debug
Gene Cumm [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:09:24 +0000 (20:09 -0400)]
rosh: more: overallocation, better feedback for debug

14 years agorosh: make getscreensize more effective and usable
Gene Cumm [Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:08:07 +0000 (20:08 -0400)]
rosh: make getscreensize more effective and usable

14 years agorosh: move scrbuf to more's main function; malloc and free oversize buffer.
Gene Cumm [Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:40:39 +0000 (17:40 -0400)]
rosh: move scrbuf to more's main function; malloc and free oversize buffer.

14 years agorosh: more: if it's the first line, dump it to screen for now even if it's too long
Gene Cumm [Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:57:45 +0000 (21:57 -0400)]
rosh: more: if it's the first line, dump it to screen for now even if it's too long

14 years agorosh: fix displaying too many lines because a line is too long.
Gene Cumm [Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:50:16 +0000 (21:50 -0400)]
rosh: fix displaying too many lines because a line is too long.

14 years agorosh: fix the DATE macro stuff
Gene Cumm [Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:49:36 +0000 (21:49 -0400)]
rosh: fix the DATE macro stuff

14 years agorosh: begin to add Syslinux version string with DATE
Gene Cumm [Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:52:59 +0000 (09:52 -0400)]
rosh: begin to add Syslinux version string with DATE

Was from commit 226224fdd1dff5cfcac641c1405303932b59aa4f; This is incomplete but will be fixed in the next commit

14 years agolua: Add .syslinux.derivative() and .syslinux.version()
Gert Hulselmans [Wed, 7 Jul 2010 00:54:53 +0000 (02:54 +0200)]
lua: Add .syslinux.derivative() and .syslinux.version()

Add .syslinux.derivative() and .syslinux.version().
Add an example script which shows how you can use .syslinux.derivative().

Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth@zytor.com>
14 years agozlib: rename DEBUG to DEBUG_ZLIB again
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:16:15 +0000 (14:16 -0700)]
zlib: rename DEBUG to DEBUG_ZLIB again

We don't want to use the global DEBUG for zlib...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agolua: remove obsolete header used for old sleep function
Gert Hulselmans [Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:41:29 +0000 (22:41 +0200)]
lua: remove obsolete header used for old sleep function

Remove obsolete header used for old sleep function.

Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth@zytor.com>
14 years agomtools: slightly more obvious definition of tmpdir fallback
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 6 Jul 2010 01:16:02 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
mtools: slightly more obvious definition of tmpdir fallback

Make it a bit more obvious what actually happens for the tmpdir
fallback.

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