Dapper status meeting followup

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:12:47AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:21:24PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I wasn't able to attend the meeting due to the US Thanksgiving holiday, so
> > I'm going to post some comments inline here:
> > 
> > > Nov 24 06:14:42 <Kamion>	cd-bootloader: CD timeout restored. Upgraded to syslinux 3.11. Sent call for gfxboot testing to ubuntu-users.
> > 
> > Is it feasible to switch this on for Flight 2?
> 
> I haven't yet attempted to port the gfxboot patch to syslinux 3 so I
> can't answer that immediately. It's the top entry in my to-do list, and
> I'll look at it first thing on Monday. I agree that switching it on for
> Flight 2 is the best way to get lots of testing.

I investigated it and found that the patch is highly non-trivial to port
to current syslinux, so I mailed the SuSE developer responsible. He
responded very quickly to say that he would be finished with the port
today or tomorrow, and that the patch is much smaller now (yay!).

I'll go and do other things in the meantime, but if SuSE come through
then it sounds promising.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]