[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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