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SYSLINUX 3.54 released
This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor
documentation changes.

Changes in 3.54:
* Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled"
(see README.menu).
* vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
default.)
* Support for calling real mode functions using far calls,
with argument on the stack. This was implemented to support
the BIOS BBS specification, but subsequent experiments show
that the at least one of the most common BIOS cores, Award,
passes the presence check but doesn't actually implement the
functionality.

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Title: syslinux
Version: 3.54
Entered-date: 2007-12-12

Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. The FAT
filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
Linux.

It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
modules, including a significant subset of the
standard C library.

It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
or CD-ROM.

Keywords: syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
memdisk com32
Author: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
2041832 syslinux-3.54.tar.gz
2342138 syslinux-3.54.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or
later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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Re: SYSLINUX 3.54 released [ In reply to ]
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:22:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor
> documentation changes.
>
> Changes in 3.54:
> * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled"
> (see README.menu).
> * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
> memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
> when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
> default.)

FWIW, this also fixes the splash screen on a real hardware:
ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]

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lfr
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Re: SYSLINUX 3.54 released [ In reply to ]
Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:22:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor
>> documentation changes.
>>
>> Changes in 3.54:
>> * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled"
>> (see README.menu).
>> * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
>> memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
>> when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
>> default.)
>
> FWIW, this also fixes the splash screen on a real hardware:
> ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
>

Excellent! Thanks for letting me know.

-hpa

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