Re: syslinux: sponsor wanted (Re: syslinux progress & reviews)

2017-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 08:58:07PM +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: >On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 18:29:23 +0200 >Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > >> I've not gotten around to test EFI booting yet. > >I've now successfully tested the 64 bit efi variant using qemu and >TianoCore. The 32 bit variant is yet untest

Re: syslinux: sponsor wanted (Re: syslinux progress & reviews)

2017-10-11 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 18:29:23 +0200 Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > I've not gotten around to test EFI booting yet. I've now successfully tested the 64 bit efi variant using qemu and TianoCore. The 32 bit variant is yet untested, because Debian's edk2 source package does not produce the needed files.

syslinux: sponsor wanted (Re: syslinux progress & reviews)

2017-10-07 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:48:59 +0100 Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I'd be happy if someone took the time to review the changes I made so > >far in git: > >https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-cd/syslinux.git > >(...) > > All looks sane enough so far! Thanks for taking the time to look through the

Re: syslinux progress & reviews

2017-10-04 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Hi Thomas, On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:20:13 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > I wonder whether the new binary isohdpfx.bin is byte-identical to the > tested MBR with the fix: >http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~ams/tmp/isohdpfx.bin.170324 I just checked: it is. So far so good :) . > Another question is whe

Re: syslinux progress & reviews

2017-10-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 10:09:52PM +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: >Hi team, > >I've worked a bit on syslinux now. I've fixed one notable problem that >I've found: The current syslinux package (statically) links against a >pre-compiled version of gnu-efi (supplied in the syslinux source >package

Re: syslinux progress & reviews

2017-10-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > * added patches from upstream to fix: > - boot problems for pre-2005 BIOS computers, see #857597 [1] Applause. I wonder whether the new binary isohdpfx.bin is byte-identical to the tested MBR with the fix: http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~ams/tmp/isohdpfx.bin.170324

syslinux progress & reviews

2017-10-03 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Hi team, I've worked a bit on syslinux now. I've fixed one notable problem that I've found: The current syslinux package (statically) links against a pre-compiled version of gnu-efi (supplied in the syslinux source package). I also made a few more improvements apart from cleanup: * the package