[syslinux:master] doc: Recommend NASM 2.07+

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


Commit-ID:  bdebf120736596da8ab2948c3a35109e75768be9
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/bdebf120736596da8ab2948c3a35109e75768be9
Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:06:21 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:06:21 -0700

doc: Recommend NASM 2.07+

Recommend NASM 2.07+ to avoid the overlong instructions problem around
NASM 2.05.

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


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

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ab7f8d..971ef09 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ 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.
+	* NASM 2.03 or later required to build.  2.07 or later
+          recommended.
 
 Changes in 3.86:
 	* chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken
diff --git a/README b/README
index d660638..ff905aa 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 2.03 or later to build SYSLINUX from source.  See
-http://www.nasm.us/ for information about nasm.
+version 2.03 or later (2.07 or later recommended) to build SYSLINUX
+from source.  See http://www.nasm.us/ for information about nasm.
 
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