[syslinux-announce] Syslinux 6.00 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/20/2013 01:01 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Finally, the Syslinux 6.00 release is out. This release includes support
> for booting from EFI, both from disk-based media and over the network
> via PXE. Thanks to everyone who has been testing this out.
> 
> There are some EFI bugs that I'm aware of,
> 
>   * booting Linux kernels without CONFIG_RELOCATABLE doesn't work
>   * 64-bit syslinux.efi cannot boot 32-bit kernels and vice versa
>   * displaying of Fn files messes up the console
> 
> Please do test out the release and report any regressions. I'm
> particularly interested to hear about any problems with the BIOS code,
> which will be a result of introducing the 'firmware' abstraction that
> allows the BIOS and EFI backends to coexist.
> 
> Shortlog from 5.11-pre2 (the last 5.xx branch merged) is below,
> 

Huge thanks to Matt for driving this project, and to Mouli for doing the
initial work on this!

	-hpa