platform/upstream/syslinux.git
14 years agohdt: Fixing memory detection
Erwan Velu [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:09:01 +0000 (16:09 +0100)]
hdt: Fixing memory detection

Impact: Fix memory detection under cli

Under the CLI, the memory detection wasn't started...
This commit fixes the memory initialisation path

14 years agohdt: Adding cpu core management
Erwan Velu [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:53:07 +0000 (15:53 +0100)]
hdt: Adding cpu core management

Impact: we now display the number of cores

CPU cores are now displayed

14 years agocpuid: Adding cpu core detection
Erwan Velu [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:44:33 +0000 (15:44 +0100)]
cpuid: Adding cpu core detection

Impact: we are now able to detect the number of cpu cores

We can detect the number of cores using cpuid(4) or cpuid_ecx(0x80000008)

14 years agohdt: Improving cpu flags report
Erwan Velu [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:45:46 +0000 (11:45 +0100)]
hdt: Improving cpu flags report

Impact: more cpu flags detected

This commit allow hdt reporting more cpu flags but also simplify from
the developer point of view the cpu flags reporting.
A visual improvement is also done for showing lists of cpu flags.

14 years agocpuid: Adding more flags
Erwan Velu [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:10:52 +0000 (10:10 +0100)]
cpuid: Adding more flags

Impact: sync with linux kernel

cpu flags are now in sync with the linux kernel. Too many flags were
missing.

14 years agohdt: show error message when no disk is found
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:44:22 +0000 (23:44 +0100)]
hdt: show error message when no disk is found

Impact: Visual

Display an error message when no disk is found on the system

14 years agohdt: Adding CODENAME in title (menu.c32)
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:14:51 +0000 (23:14 +0100)]
hdt: Adding CODENAME in title (menu.c32)

Impact: visual

Let's display the CODENAME in the menu title

14 years agohdt: clear_screen have to reset the xy position
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:06:35 +0000 (23:06 +0100)]
hdt: clear_screen have to reset the xy position

Impact: visual

This commit avoid clear_screen letting the cursor at the same place
after the clearing. It have to be reset to

14 years agohdt: Auto generating versions for menu mode
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:25:34 +0000 (22:25 +0100)]
hdt: Auto generating versions for menu mode

Impact: visual

The menu mode now display the current version

14 years agohdt: Adding vesa mode switching under CLI
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:41:26 +0000 (21:41 +0100)]
hdt: Adding vesa mode switching under CLI

Impact: its now possible to switch the vesa mode

Users can use vesa>enable to switch to vesa mode or
vesa>disable to switch to console mode

14 years agohdt: Improving help messages' display in menu
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:27:40 +0000 (21:27 +0100)]
hdt: Improving help messages' display in menu

Impact: Visual

Help messages need a space for increasing readbility

14 years agohdt: Improving menu layout
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:23:07 +0000 (21:23 +0100)]
hdt: Improving menu layout

Impact: visual

Improving layout. Thx gert.

14 years agohdt: Adding a menu for floppy & iso images
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:07:37 +0000 (21:07 +0100)]
hdt: Adding a menu for floppy & iso images

Impact: none

Floppy & ISO images are now featuring a menu mode.
Thx gert for this idea.

14 years agohdt: Fixing typo in variable's name
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:14:18 +0000 (20:14 +0100)]
hdt: Fixing typo in variable's name

Impact: Building is working again

Ooops ....

14 years agohdt: Adding novesa for future use
Erwan Velu [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:48:35 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
hdt: Adding novesa for future use

Impact: none

In a close future, as vesa will be enabled by default, let's anticipate
the novesa command

14 years agohdt: print_history have to use more_printf
Erwan Velu [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:12 +0000 (00:01 +0100)]
hdt: print_history have to use more_printf

Impact: managing scrolling in history()

History can generates some scrolling, so let's use more_printf

14 years agohdt: Fixing history behavior to match bash's one
Erwan Velu [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:50:03 +0000 (23:50 +0100)]
hdt: Fixing history behavior to match bash's one

Impact: history usage is more obvious

History (up/down) is more intiutive and copy bash's behavior

14 years agohdt: Adding history command
Erwan Velu [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:10:34 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
hdt: Adding history command

Impact: new command 'history'

This command allow to see the content of the history

14 years agohdt: reworking history to prevent corruption
Erwan Velu [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0000 (22:35 +0100)]
hdt: reworking history to prevent corruption

Impact: avoid history corruption

No need to copy history to input. We can directly use the history stack.

14 years agogfxboot.c32 syslinux-3.84-pre5
Steffen Winterfeldt [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:00:17 +0000 (21:00 +0100)]
gfxboot.c32

Ok, here is the first try to turn the gfxboot wrapper into a com32 module. I
had to extend the interface to the gfxboot core a bit to get it working. So
it works only with latest gfxboot from

git://gitorious.org/gfxboot/gfxboot.git

Steffen

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agopcitest: fix wrong statements about file location
Sebastian Herbszt [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:42:19 +0000 (15:42 +0100)]
pcitest: fix wrong statements about file location

Impact: Visual

The module tries to access the files in the current directory.
So this patch fixes the error message accordingly.

14 years agogpllibs: Running Nindent
Erwan Velu [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:42:41 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
gpllibs: Running Nindent

Impact: visual

Running Nindent on gpllib / gplinclude

14 years agoMerge branch 'master' of ssh://terminus.zytor.com//pub/git/users/erwan/hdt
Erwan Velu [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:26:28 +0000 (10:26 +0100)]
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://terminus.zytor.com//pub/git/users/erwan/hdt

14 years agohdt: Running Nindent
Erwan Velu [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:24:49 +0000 (10:24 +0100)]
hdt: Running Nindent

Impact: Visual cleanup

HDT now uses the same indent as syslinux

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'pam/hdt-0.3.6'
Erwan Velu [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:05:48 +0000 (10:05 +0100)]
Merge remote branch 'pam/hdt-0.3.6'

14 years agohdt: fix memory corruption in the CLI
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:40:01 +0000 (18:40 -0800)]
hdt: fix memory corruption in the CLI

More memory corruption with overlooked. parse_command_line and
expand_aliases both allocate memory (for command, module, argc and argv).

We did fix the memory corruption for the autocompletion feature but
but didn't do it for the actual execution of the commands.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@ning.com>
14 years agomemory: Commenting workaround
root [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:04:05 +0000 (22:04 +0100)]
memory: Commenting workaround

Impact: none

HDT is using a memory detection code which duplicates some syslinux
code. Once addr_t will be moved into 64bit, this can be removed by using
syslinux_scan_memory().

14 years agohdt: replacing e88 by 88
Erwan Velu [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:16:41 +0000 (17:16 +0100)]
hdt: replacing e88 by 88

Impact: e88 doesn't have any meaning

Fixing e88 by 88

14 years agohdt: Rounding detected memory size
Erwan Velu [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:16:32 +0000 (15:16 +0100)]
hdt: Rounding detected memory size

Impact: Visual

Rounding values to have more realistic values

14 years agohdt: Improving memory detection
Erwan Velu [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:44:51 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
hdt: Improving memory detection

Impact: Detect memory size even if dmi is broken

This commit uses e820/e801/e88 memory detection to find the memory size.
That allow to display the memory size even if the dmi table is broken

14 years agomemory: Adding memory size detection
Erwan Velu [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:39:55 +0000 (13:39 +0100)]
memory: Adding memory size detection

Impact: allow com32 module to detect the amount of memory installed

This commit adds several function:

sanitize_e820_map() to generate a new e820 map that doesn't have
overlaping

memsize_e820() to detect the available memory (in KB)

detect_memsize() to detect the amount of memory by using e820/e801/e88.
It first try to detect the memory via e820. If it fails, it uses e801 as
fallback. If this e801 fails, e88 is used.

14 years agohdt: Cleaning mbr_ids
Erwan Velu [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:48:49 +0000 (22:48 +0100)]
hdt: Cleaning mbr_ids

Impact: none

Let's just clean mbr_ids as we do for the orther structures

14 years agohdt: More coherency in messages
Erwan Velu [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:30:57 +0000 (22:30 +0100)]
hdt: More coherency in messages

Impact: more coherency

More coherency in messages

14 years agohdt: Adding more coherency in memory messages
Erwan Velu [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:26:10 +0000 (22:26 +0100)]
hdt: Adding more coherency in memory messages

Impact: more coherency

More coherency in memory messages

14 years agohdt: memory menu have to be shown in every case
Erwan Velu [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:57:47 +0000 (21:57 +0100)]
hdt: memory menu have to be shown in every case

Impact: memory menu have to be always visible

In virtualbox, dmi table isn't correctly feed. In that situation, the
memory menu isn't displayed whereas e88, e820 & e801 are present.
So let's remove the condition where the memory menu have to be shown
only when memory modules are detected.

Tested by Gert.

14 years agohdt: Renaming "show 88" to "show e88"
Erwan Velu [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:50:46 +0000 (21:50 +0100)]
hdt: Renaming "show 88" to "show e88"

Impact: increasing coherency

Let's rename that function to keep more coherency with e820 & e801

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'pam/hdt-0.3.6'
Erwan Velu [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:27:21 +0000 (19:27 +0100)]
Merge remote branch 'pam/hdt-0.3.6'

14 years agogpllib: mbr: fix grub2 detection
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:49:37 +0000 (16:49 -0800)]
gpllib: mbr: fix grub2 detection

gerth reports that hdt-0.3.6 doesn't detect grub2 anymore.
It looks like some break were missing in the case statement.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agohdt: Only copy needed art files
Erwan Velu [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:37:08 +0000 (12:37 +0100)]
hdt: Only copy needed art files

Impact: Reduces binary image size

This commit only copy the needed art files to put in the floppy/iso
images.

14 years agohdt: Allow user to override the background image
Erwan Velu [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:34:53 +0000 (12:34 +0100)]
hdt: Allow user to override the background image

Impact: none

This commit allow user using vesa=<filename> to override the background
image in vesa mode

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'hpa/master'
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:00 +0000 (23:14 +0100)]
Merge remote branch 'hpa/master'

14 years agohdt: Adding another logo
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:54:16 +0000 (22:54 +0100)]
hdt: Adding another logo

Impact: none

Adding another logo (black)

14 years agohdt: Adding logo
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:50:50 +0000 (22:50 +0100)]
hdt: Adding logo

Impact: none

Adding transparent logo

14 years agohdt: Updating contributors
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:35:41 +0000 (22:35 +0100)]
hdt: Updating contributors

Impact: Visual

Adding Alexander Andino for design. Adding other contributors's role

14 years agohdt: fixing wrong type
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:55 +0000 (22:33 +0100)]
hdt: fixing wrong type

Impact: Avoid compilation error

Fixing return type

14 years agohdt: 0.3.6-pre1
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:28 +0000 (22:13 +0100)]
hdt: 0.3.6-pre1

Impact: Pre-release

Releasing 0.3.6-pre1

14 years agohdt: Adding background image for the CLI
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:50 +0000 (22:00 +0100)]
hdt: Adding background image for the CLI

Impact: Visual

The cli now features a background image when started in vesa mode

14 years agohdt: Adding vesa mode support
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:49:42 +0000 (16:49 +0100)]
hdt: Adding vesa mode support

Impact: cli can now be turned into vesa

Using the "vesa" keyword at boot time, you can enable the vesa mode for
the cli.

14 years agohdt: hdt.img must use 8.3 naming
Erwan Velu [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:37:36 +0000 (16:37 +0100)]
hdt: hdt.img must use 8.3 naming

Impact: Loading files is now working again

Prior to that commit, the hdt.img was failing loading files

14 years agomemdisk: pptr->cd_pkt.sect_count is in virtual sectors
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:17:43 +0000 (20:17 -0800)]
memdisk: pptr->cd_pkt.sect_count is in virtual sectors

Per the El Torito spec, pptr->cd_pkt.sect_count are in virtual
sectors, i.e. 512-byte sectors.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdisk: Use boot_lba logic for booting an offset within the disk image
Shao Miller [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:34 +0000 (20:49 -0500)]
memdisk: Use boot_lba logic for booting an offset within the disk image

We have two fundamental quantities: the offset of the disk image
itself and the LBA from which we boot.  Keep them straight.  This
should make at least some no-emulation isos work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdisk: Restore DL for INT 13h, AH=15h, DL=floppy syslinux-3.84-pre4
Shao Miller [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:20:33 +0000 (20:20 -0500)]
memdisk: Restore DL for INT 13h, AH=15h, DL=floppy

At least PC-DOS requires this to avoid an infinite loop; the DL we
restore is not the same DL that we call the underlying BIOS with, but
rather the original one (before the decrement.)  PC-DOS loops over all
the floppies and relies on the call preserving DL in order to advance
the loop.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoopen: close the file descriptor if the file fails to open
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:17:36 +0000 (17:17 -0800)]
open: close the file descriptor if the file fails to open

Close the file descriptor (freeing the file structure) when opening a
file fails.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodprintf: fix uninitialized pointer; return void
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:52:11 +0000 (16:52 -0800)]
dprintf: fix uninitialized pointer; return void

Fix an uninitialized pointer bug; return void rather than returning
int like normal printfs... if we're depending on the return value of a
debugging function we're screwed when debugging is disabled.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodprintf: fix dprintf() and vdprintf()
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:33:58 +0000 (15:33 -0800)]
dprintf: fix dprintf() and vdprintf()

Fix incorrect prototype for vdprintf() used in dprintf(), masked by
the non-use of the header file.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomenu: debugging hooks
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:10:54 +0000 (11:10 -0800)]
menu: debugging hooks

Add (disabled) debugging hooks to the menu system.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodprintf: a generic debug-to-serial infrastructure
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:10:00 +0000 (11:10 -0800)]
dprintf: a generic debug-to-serial infrastructure

Actually provide real infrastructure for debug-to-serial.  Very
useful when debugging fullscreen applications, especially under an
emulator like Qemu.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agohdt: fix double lines in the menu
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:25:29 +0000 (20:25 -0800)]
hdt: fix double lines in the menu

Ralf Carl reports some UI glitches in the summary menu
(unnecessary line separator at the bottom).
This patch rewrites the separator logic.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agohdt: trivial printf fix (CLI)
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:18:04 +0000 (20:18 -0800)]
hdt: trivial printf fix (CLI)

Remove a typo. This fixes a compilation warning.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agohdt: more memory corruption fixes
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:15:55 +0000 (20:15 -0800)]
hdt: more memory corruption fixes

A cli_module_descr can be defined with no modules (only a default
callback). Cf. the syslinux module for instance.
This patch adds a check for NULL structures before trying to dereference them.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agohdt: fix memory corruption in CLI
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:57:31 +0000 (19:57 -0800)]
hdt: fix memory corruption in CLI

Ralf Carl has reported some corruption in the autocompletion feature
of the CLI. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agohdt: Using dmi when cpu doesn't support identify
Erwan Velu [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:52:34 +0000 (10:52 +0100)]
hdt: Using dmi when cpu doesn't support identify

Impact: Avoid free field

On old processors, identify isn't working. In that situation, let's use
the dmi to find the processor model

14 years agohdt: Summary mode use type6 as workaround
Erwan Velu [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:51:36 +0000 (10:51 +0100)]
hdt: Summary mode use type6 as workaround

Impact: Avoid empty field

The summary mode should also use type6 as fallback of type 17

14 years agohdt: Adding includes to avoid gcc warning
Erwan Velu [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:30 +0000 (17:20 +0100)]
hdt: Adding includes to avoid gcc warning

Impact: Avoid warnings at compile time

hdt.c was calling start_cli without including the according .h file

14 years agohdt: Fixing type 6 detection in cli mode
Erwan Velu [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:17 +0000 (17:17 +0100)]
hdt: Fixing type 6 detection in cli mode

Impact: Type 6 only systems would have been unable to show modules in
cli

This commit is completing bc6105b409291f0f15bbe99d348e5641a0f7c729

14 years agohdt: Removing dead code, adding comments
Erwan Velu [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:14:34 +0000 (17:14 +0100)]
hdt: Removing dead code, adding comments

Impact: Removing dead code

This code was used in the ancient cli model. That's just dead code.
Let's add a few comments too

14 years agohdt: Summary in cli mode can use type 6
Erwan Velu [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:19:34 +0000 (16:19 +0100)]
hdt: Summary in cli mode can use type 6

Impact: Show summary displays modules when type 17 isn't available

When dmi type 17 isn't available, the "show summary" command must use
type 6 to show the current memory configuration

14 years agoMerge branch 'master' into memdisk-iso syslinux-3.84-pre3
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:05:23 +0000 (21:05 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' into memdisk-iso

14 years agoisohybrid: make the -offset option actually work
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:21:37 +0000 (18:21 -0800)]
isohybrid: make the -offset option actually work

Actually implement the -offset option.  Credit for the patch goes to
"cmdr from the gparted-forum", reported by
Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agohdt: Disabling SERIAL 0 support
Erwan Velu [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:28:34 +0000 (17:28 +0100)]
hdt: Disabling SERIAL 0 support

Impact: Improves speed

As reported in ticket #24, removing SERIAL output increase performances

14 years agohdt: DMI Type 6 used as a workaround for Type 17
Erwan Velu [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:12:49 +0000 (14:12 +0100)]
hdt: DMI Type 6 used as a workaround for Type 17

Impact: Allow to have a memory entry when only type 6 is available

Prior to that commit, systems that only featured type 6 weren't able to
display the memory information.

14 years agoMerge branch 'memdisk-iso-SAFE' into memdisk-iso
Shao Miller [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:36:06 +0000 (10:36 +0000)]
Merge branch 'memdisk-iso-SAFE' into memdisk-iso

Conflicts:

memdisk/memdisk_chs.asm
memdisk/memdisk_edd.asm
memdisk/setup.c

Resolved:

Deleted memdisk/memdisk_chs.asm
Deleted memdisk/memdisk_edd.asm
Modified memdisk/setup.c

14 years agogpllib: mbr: add detection for Grub2 minor versions
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:37:12 +0000 (23:37 -0800)]
gpllib: mbr: add detection for Grub2 minor versions

Grub2 v1.96 and v1.97 have different opcodes in their MBR.

Reported-by: gert
This fixes #26.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@ning.com>
14 years agogpllib: mbr: change "Gag" to "GAG"
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:31:14 +0000 (23:31 -0800)]
gpllib: mbr: change "Gag" to "GAG"

Reported-by: gert
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agogpllib: mbr: change "Plop" to "PloP"
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:29:28 +0000 (23:29 -0800)]
gpllib: mbr: change "Plop" to "PloP"

Reported-by: gert
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@ning.com>
14 years agogpllib: add XOSL mbr detection
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:24:37 +0000 (23:24 -0800)]
gpllib: add XOSL mbr detection

Feature request originally reported at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/forums/forum/905692/topic/3459317

and forwarded to HDT by gert.

This fixes #25.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@ning.com>
14 years agomboot.c32: fix the video mode selection algorithm
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:03:12 +0000 (21:03 -0800)]
mboot.c32: fix the video mode selection algorithm

Make the video mode selection algorithm do what was intended...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomboot.c32: add VESA mode setting support syslinux-3.84-pre2
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:16:43 +0000 (20:16 -0800)]
mboot.c32: add VESA mode setting support

Add VESA mode setting support per the Multiboot specification.

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 [Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:18:57 +0000 (19:18 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://terminus.zytor.com/pub/git/syslinux/syslinux

14 years agodos: int 25/26 may be register-dirty; wrap them in assembly
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:40:35 +0000 (13:40 -0800)]
dos: int 25/26 may be register-dirty; wrap them in assembly

int 25h and int 26h are known to be register-dirty for some versions
of DOS -- unlike int 21h, which is usually clean.  As such, wrap those
in assembly functions.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodmi: fix bank connections information
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:44 +0000 (21:01 -0800)]
dmi: fix bank connections information

Ralf Carl reports that bank connections are incomplete (DMI type 6).
Some information was left out during output formatting.

This should fix #23.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
15 years agodmi: fix DMI type 6 output
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:49:51 +0000 (20:49 -0800)]
dmi: fix DMI type 6 output

Ralf Carl reports some garbage in the DMI type 6 output. It appears
that some output formatting wasn't quite right.

This should close #22.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
15 years agodos: don't add the linker script twice on the ld command line
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:29:53 +0000 (16:29 -0800)]
dos: don't add the linker script twice on the ld command line

My version of the linker can deal with it, but others might not be so
smart.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodos: drop unneeded .eh_frame section
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:28:20 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
dos: drop unneeded .eh_frame section

gcc will produce an .eh_frame section, which we have no use for.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodos: always try the FAT32-aware direct I/O calls first
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:05:34 +0000 (16:05 -0800)]
dos: always try the FAT32-aware direct I/O calls first

Always try the FAT32-aware direct I/O calls before trying the legacy
raw I/O calls.  The reason for doing this is that the FAT32 stuff may
be implemented as an add-on.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodos: DOS version 7.10 is 0x070a, not 0x0710...
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:52:37 +0000 (15:52 -0800)]
dos: DOS version 7.10 is 0x070a, not 0x0710...

Fix DOS version 7.10 (first FAT32-capable version) check.

Perhaps we should just call the FAT32 calls blindly and fall back to
the old calls if they fail?

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agoNEWS: merged hdt 0.3.5 syslinux-3.84-pre1
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:53:30 +0000 (23:53 -0800)]
NEWS: merged hdt 0.3.5

15 years agoMerge commit 'hdt-0.3.5'
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:52:46 +0000 (23:52 -0800)]
Merge commit 'hdt-0.3.5'

15 years agoversion: next version on this branch will be 3.84
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:51:54 +0000 (23:51 -0800)]
version: next version on this branch will be 3.84

15 years agoNEWS: document fix for DOS installer
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:51:15 +0000 (23:51 -0800)]
NEWS: document fix for DOS installer

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodos: fix the soft-locking loop
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:50:10 +0000 (23:50 -0800)]
dos: fix the soft-locking loop

Code the soft-locking loop correctly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodos: try to handle both raw DOS mode and Windows mode
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:43:19 +0000 (23:43 -0800)]
dos: try to handle both raw DOS mode and Windows mode

The locking API works very different in raw DOS mode and in Windows
mode.  The hierarchial locking is only available in the latter mode;
in the former mode we can only use levels 0 and 4.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agodos: make DOS installer work under WinME
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:09:14 +0000 (22:09 -0800)]
dos: make DOS installer work under WinME

At least under WinME, the DOS installer did not work as advertised.
With these modifications, it seems to work okay.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
15 years agohdt: Fixing subrelease
Erwan Velu [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:29:52 +0000 (23:29 +0100)]
hdt: Fixing subrelease

Impact: none

That's an alpha not a pre

15 years agohdt: Generating gzipped content in binary images
Erwan Velu [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:18:00 +0000 (23:18 +0100)]
hdt: Generating gzipped content in binary images

Impact: Reduces image size

Floppies & ISO are now using gzipped content to reduce the size

15 years agohdt: Switching to 0.3.6-pre1
Erwan Velu [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:15:53 +0000 (23:15 +0100)]
hdt: Switching to 0.3.6-pre1

Impact: none

Let's work on the future product

15 years agopci: using zfopen instead of fopen
Erwan Velu [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:28:26 +0000 (22:28 +0100)]
pci: using zfopen instead of fopen

Impact: allow to open gzipped files

This commit allow people using gzipped files
(pci.ids/modules.pcimap/modules.alias)

15 years agohdt: iso/floppy have to be quiet
Erwan Velu [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:04:41 +0000 (11:04 +0100)]
hdt: iso/floppy have to be quiet

Impact: Quieten output of hdt

By default, the provided iso/floppies are now quieter.
This will increase the readibility of HDT's output

15 years agopci: Removing useless initialisation
Erwan Velu [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:44:58 +0000 (10:44 +0100)]
pci: Removing useless initialisation

Impact: None

The kernel module count is set to zero when the dev_info is allocated.

15 years agopci: Prevent kernel modules to be listed twice
Erwan Velu [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:42:10 +0000 (10:42 +0100)]
pci: Prevent kernel modules to be listed twice

Impact: Prevent duplicated modules

If both get_module_name_from_pcimap() &  get_module_name_from_alias()
are called, we didn't checked if the module we are detecting already got
detected. This leads to a situation where modules got listed twice.

This patch add a test to insure that we aren't adding an already
detected module.