Re: Upgrade syslinux to 4.04-pre14 or wait for 4.04?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olaf Westrik" <weizen_42-Yz37vSk3/[email protected]>
To: "Gilles Espinasse" <[email protected]>
Cc: "IPCOP devel" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [IPCop-devel] Upgrade syslinux to 4.04-pre14 or wait for 4.04?


> On 2011-03-29 14:18, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > 4.03 is know to have some issues with some bios at boot.
> > Last call before 4.04 release has been made 15 day ago. In that time
> > 4.04-pre14 prebuild binaries has been found to be badly compiled (by a
new
> > compiler).
> >
> > Recompiling 4.04-pre14 should work (just compiled, not yet run)
> > I have fixed a issue recompiling the gpxe part that was not supporting
our
> > pie by default gcc.
> > Should I commit the 4.03 =>4.04-pre14 upgrade?
>
> I think we can wait for 4.04.
>
> 1.9.17 has syslinux 3.86, .18/.19 will install with 4.03.
> If we leave syslinux 4.03 out of the .18/.19 update package, anyone with
> problems installing .19 should be able to install .17 and upgrade using
> normal mechanisms.
>
> If the compile problems are sorted, we can update syslinux to 4.04.
>
>
> Is that OK for you?
>
>
> Olaf

That could be ok too. Anyway pre14 recompilation should be only better than
pre14 prebuild code as I was able to boot. The 4.03 bios issue should not be
that current and we still have some work after 1.9.18/1.9.19 release. It is
just that 4.03 has other issue (one fix for isohybrid), so that make not
much sense for me to work at isohybrid with a 4.03 base code.

Kernel merge windows is closed so HPA may have a bit more time for syslinux.
I had think the 4.04 release would be fast, but I don't know due to the
linker issue with pre13 and pre14.

I have booted with my compiled 4.04-pre14 but had one issue during
configuration after install.
The case is when I configured with one pci card found as green and one isa
card as static.
Selection work nicely, but address configuration fail a bit later with
cp: can't stat '/etc/dhcp-*params': No such file or directory
Segmentation fault

That fail in that case in the first card address configuration (green).

That does not happen when using 2 pci cards (and red as static).
I have to look at the address setup code.

Gilles


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