Mailing List Archive: SYSLINUX 3.62-pre7: no more 64K limit on CLI labels

SYSLINUX 3.62-pre7: no more 64K limit on CLI labels

Feb 15, 2008, 11:47 PM

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3.62 is shaping up to be the "let's get rid of hardcoded limits"
release. I got inspired by Bryan Perry's post about people still
wanting to be able to use the CLI, so I have implemented putting labels
in high memory, therefore avoiding the 64K total limit.

This is now released as 3.62-pre7. If you happen to have a use case for
this, I would be interested in finding out how well it works.

Next, I'll probably try to get rid of the hardcoded limits in the menu
system (currently limited to 4096 labels per menu), and if I get really
ambitious, implement a better submenu system.

-hpa

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Re: SYSLINUX 3.62-pre7: no more 64K limit on CLI labels [ In reply to ]

hpa at zytor

Feb 16, 2008, 12:36 AM

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Next, I'll probably try to get rid of the hardcoded limits in the menu
> system (currently limited to 4096 labels per menu)...
>

That was simpler than I had expected :) Now released as 3.62-pre8
(tested with a little over 100,000 labels.)

-hpa

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Re: SYSLINUX 3.62-pre7: no more 64K limit on CLI labels [ In reply to ]

bperry at novell

Feb 19, 2008, 7:13 AM

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>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 1:36 AM, in message <47B6A073.9030209@zytor.com>, "H.
Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> Next, I'll probably try to get rid of the hardcoded limits in the menu
>> system (currently limited to 4096 labels per menu)...
>>
>
> That was simpler than I had expected :) Now released as 3.62-pre8
> (tested with a little over 100,000 labels.)
>
> -hpa
>

Excellent. I'll continue playing with my system this week trying to get it set up as you described.
I'll keep you posted on how that goes.

-Bryan

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