[syslinux:master] doc: NASM 2.03+ has been required since 4.00 at least

syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jul 15 23:12:12 PDT 2010


Commit-ID:  a18fc7af5d670237b8fcc0d705e1ccb8d4c7a49f
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/a18fc7af5d670237b8fcc0d705e1ccb8d4c7a49f
Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:05:02 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:05:02 -0700

doc: NASM 2.03+ has been required since 4.00 at least

At least since the 4.00 code was merged, NASM 2.03 or higher has been
required.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>


---
 NEWS   |    1 +
 README |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 10a0e50..6ab7f8d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ Changes in 4.00:
 	  instead of downwards, in order to avoid a fairly common
 	  bug on some BIOSes where probing drive 0xFF causes a
 	  failure.
+	* NASM 2.03 or later required to build.
 
 Changes in 3.86:
 	* chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken
diff --git a/README b/README
index aebc421..d660638 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ Also see the files:
 	COPYING		    - For the license terms of this software.
 
 SYSLINUX now builds in a Linux environment, using nasm.  You need nasm
-version 0.98.39 or later to build SYSLINUX from source.  See
-http://nasm.sf.net/ for information about nasm.
+version 2.03 or later to build SYSLINUX from source.  See
+http://www.nasm.us/ for information about nasm.
 
 There is now a mailing list for SYSLINUX.  See the end of syslinux.txt
 for details.



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