2005-05-17 16:44:57 +00:00
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Major changes from 1.0 to 1.1
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+ Everywhere: Can compile two versions of the code, under gcc or bcc
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(Bruce Evan's cc), so that 16-bit boot PROMs can be made. See
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netboot-16/README.16 for more details.
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+ Everywhere: Removed duplicate defines, e.g. everybody defined their
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own ID for ethernet address size (6). Put IDs for magic numbers in
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various places. Still some inconsistency, ETH_ and ETHER_ are used.
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+ Everywhere: Added prototypes of functions to netboot.h. Removed
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unused variables.
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+ Makefiles: Rewritten.
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+ netboot.h: Added define for TFTP_MAX_PACKET = 512. Increased TIMEOUT
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for tftp packets to 180 (about 10 seconds) so that tftp servers would
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be able to retransmit blocks.
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+ main.c: Rewrote tftp(). Original was intended to get only one block
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and the strain on the structure due to modifications was showing.
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Increased config_buffer size to TFTP_MAX_PACKET+1 to avoid special
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casing data length=512.
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+ linuxloader.c: Cleaned up the code in some places, especially
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linux_tftp. Moved the bootp reply block into bss space instead of a
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fixed location such as 0x90000.
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+ ns8390.c: Removed one bug regarding packet length. packetlen was
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wrongly shortened when packets wraparound the ring buffer.
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+ 3c509.c: Changed some of the gotos to returns. Removed ARP code since
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that's already done elsewhere. Removed interrupt enable and Rx early
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notification (we can't do anything with the packet until it's complete
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anyway).
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Major changes from 1.1 to 1.2
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+ Small bug in makerom.c. Extra semicolon shortened for loop and made
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double checking code invalid.
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+ Added version identification to startup string.
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+ Gathered external declarations into netboot.h.
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+ New compile time option for netboot-32. If INT19H is not defined,
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then boot ROM takes control as soon as BIOS scans it. This may solve
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the problem of some BIOSes not calling the boot ROM at INT19H. This
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may be when disks are detected by the BIOS, i.e. the machine is not
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truly diskless.
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+ Added a new program, test.c, for making test ROMs to verify that
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the BIOS recognises the ROM.
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+ New directory contrib contains contributed code. Currently contains
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masq by Gerd Knorr: make a boot floppy without DOS
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comboot-1.0 by Adam J. Richter: also make a boot floppy without DOS.
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+ New mknbi-1.4 from Gero Kuhlmann and Markus Gutschke. This one handles
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the new bzImage format.
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Bumped up version to 2.0 because we are so listed in the Linux 2.0
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distribution and this would avoid confusion.
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Major changes from 2.0 to 2.1
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+ Added LSM for transname-patch to contrib.
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+ Added patch for serial console from Claus Heine
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<claus AT momo PERIOD math PERIOD rwth-aachen PERIOD de>.
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+ Claus Heine contributed patches to the 2.0.21/22 kernel sources to
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allow NFS swap.
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+ Markus Gutschke provided fixes to start2.S so that main can return to
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the ROM code if user doesn't want to ROM boot.
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+ Added code to main.c to timeout on the prompt and assume Y or N
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for the answer. Timeout and answer configurable.
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+ Made NE1/2000 probe addresses configurable from Makefile. Fixed up
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autoscan code.
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+ Made NFS_BOOT a configurable option. By undefining it, only tagged
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file load is supported but ROMs are under 8k.
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+ ROMSIZE is not used by makerom now. -s flag controls size of ROM
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at runtime. So don't need to recompile makerom if ROMSIZE changes.
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+ Updated netboot-16 for the latest dev tools from the Linux-MT
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project. Use the size.c from there.
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+ Got rid of _main() in main.c, instead using #ifdef ELF in start2.S.
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ELF is preferred now anyway.
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+ Changed bcompare to standard bcmp and reversed sense of result.
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Reason: to use standard library if available, e.g. Netboot-16.
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+ Common Makefile for 32 bit and 16 versions, with differences in
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Config files.
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Major changes from 2.1 to 2.2
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+ New device driver for the Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0 chipset family.
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(because of legal problems, this code is currently in the "contrib"
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directory.)
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+ Added support for loading BOOTP extension files (c.f. RFC1533).
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+ If we have to go thru a gateway, then use the one that has been used for
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the BOOTP daemon. If the BOOTP daemon is directly accessible, then use
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the first entry in the "gw" gateway list instead.
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+ For all retries, back off according to RFC951 by randomizing the timeouts
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and exponentially increasing them until an average of one minute is
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reached.
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+ Warn if code will not fit into chosen ROM size. Happens only if the
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autosizing in the Makefile somehow fails.
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+ Modified the code for enabling the A20 gate; this could increase
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compatibility, but I still have to hear from users.
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+ The copyright message will now reflect, which features have been
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enabled at compile time.
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+ Added support for selecting different boot images from a menu. As a side
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effect, this can be used to upgrade the ROM without having to burn a new
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image (c.f. README.VendorTags).
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+ Display a "message of the day" that is provided by the BOOTP daemon.
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+ The sanity check for detecting a Linux kernel was too strong to properly
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recognize a 2.1.x kernel; this has been fixed.
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+ Trys to negotiate for 1432 octect blocks, if the TFTP daemon knows
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about RFC1783.
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+ We can optionally boot from local disk, if the BOOTP server cannot
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be contacted.
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+ Restructured directories: got rid of netboot-freebsd to reduce confusion
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with Gero Kuhlmann's netboot, moved documentation to doc and renamed
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directories to be more in line with Unix conventions. Edited documentation.
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+ Created a dispatch table for NIC routines so that we can include one
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or more drivers in one binary. Renamed all entry points in the driver
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sources. Created two new files, config.c, which holds the dispatch
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table and can be conditionally compiled; and nic.c which contains the
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extern variables referenced by the drivers.
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+ Automatically decide what size ROM is needed by doing a size and then
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choosing the correct startup object. Currently caters for 8k, 16k and
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32k ROMs.
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+ Optionally include a simple interpreter for ANSI escape sequences. This
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allows for fancier boot menus.
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+ Remove patches directory which is mostly relevant to 1.x kernels only.
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Everybody should use 2.x kernels now. If for some reason you need those
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patches, get an older release of etherboot.
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+ Fix Makefile to work even if . not on PATH.
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+ Sadly, 32 bit ROMs are now > 8kb. We will try to reduce the size by
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conditionals in a later release. For now, use version 2.1 if your NIC
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won't take > 8kb ROMs.
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+ Release as 3.0b1 because of the large amount of changes.
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+ Fixed a few problems with the code for ANSI escape sequences and
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added optional support for displaying graphics.
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+ Optional support for password protected boot images.
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+ Optional support for booting from block devices (floppy, hd).
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+ The bootp server can pass additional parameters to the loaded kernel
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image (currently, this only applies to Linux) and the user can be
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allowed to edit a commandline; the latter is optionally protected by
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a password scheme.
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+ Set the warm-boot flag when the main routine is entered.
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+ Release as 3.0b2
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+ Added code for updating the FlashCard EPROM over the network
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(contrib/flashimg).
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+ Added very simple code for turning a ROM image into a network loadable image.
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This is useful for debugging, but some users without flash EPROMs might
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appreciate the possibility to load a fully fledged image from a very basic
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configuration.
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+ Optional support for compressing the ROM images. Please read
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doc/COPYING.compressor before using this feature.
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+ Sync'd our source tree with Gero's netboot-0.5; this means that you now need
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the as86 from the ELKs project in order to recompile all of the files. This
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should not affect normal usage, though.
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+ Added "mknbi-blkdev" for booting from local block devices.
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+ Fixed some bugs in ppmtoansi.c and bootmenu.c
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+ Renamed reference compressor implementation to compressor.exp otherwise
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make tries to use it and it should not be turned on by default.
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+ Zero'ing BSS in 16-bit version has to be done to _end, not to A0000
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because it's executing in a segment, not in flat address space in 16
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bit mode.
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+ Ken Yap contributed a quick and dirty Perl script for people who use
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netboot to test ELKS. So far I'm the only one I know of; maybe the
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others are silent. :-(
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+ Release as 3.0
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Major changes from 3.0 to 3.1
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+ 4 versions of etherboot can be built for a NIC: .com for testing and
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.rom for burning into EPROM, and corresponding compressed versions:
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.lzcom and .lzrom.
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+ The loaders are now separate programs which are prepended to the
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etherboot binary. This allows them (plain and uncompressing versions) to
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be maintained separately and gives a bit more RAM to the etherboot code.
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+ No need to define ROMSIZE in the build. makerom automatically discovers
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the ROM size needed and fills in the size field in the ROM. This
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simplifies the build procedure.
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+ 16 bit versions use the same loaders as the 32 bit version. Also fixed
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two bugs in the 16 bit versions: (1) a non-8086 instruction in zloader,
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(2) setting warm-boot flag in main which zapped some code.
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+ Fixed a documentation bug on the ANSI escape sequences.
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+ Include netboot-0.5.3 distribution from Gero Kuhlmann.
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+ Included some contributions from Dickon.Reed AT cl PERIOD cam PERIOD
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ac PERIOD uk: Running display of Kbytes loaded, line of delimiters after
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loading complete, a temporary hack to address timing problems with the
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3C509, and some Makefile cleanup. The first two changes need to be
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enabled in Config with defines.
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+ mknbi-blkdev seems to have been left out by Gero Kuhlmann. Add to
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contrib directory. You probably have to make a symlink to it from
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the netboot-0.5.2 directory.
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+ Release as 3.1
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Major changes from 3.1 to 3.2
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+ 16 bit version now can load to extended memory, if it exists. On
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a 8086/8 this will silently fail.
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+ Cleaned up interface between main body of code and NIC drivers. No
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global variables referenced in NIC driver, everything is passed
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through a structure. Only the probe function is visible outside,
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pointers to the others are returned in the structure.
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+ Implemented autoprobe for 3c503. Also simplifies code at same time.
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+ Removed ARP response code in ns8390.c. Don't think we need to respond
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to ARP requests because other machines will do gratuituous ARP when
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boot code sends out bootp request. Are there cases where this is not
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true? Gateways?
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+ Added 1 second timeout to routine that clears the keyboard buffer
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in case there is no keyboard.
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+ Added a skeleton driver that can be used as a template for new NIC
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drivers.
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+ ./lzhuf in Makefile so that it will run even if . is not on path.
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+ Fixed comboot to work on 286s also. Won't work yet on 8086/8.
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+ Fixed mknbi-blkdev to configure properly under netboot-0.7.
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+ Added David Munro's PCI code adapted from Linux. Currently has entries
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for PCI NE2000 clones. Generalised it to probe other PCI cards later on.
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+ Moved twiddle() outside NIC driver except where used to provide a delay.
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+ Fixed bug in Makefile spotted by Ton Biegstraaten. Should prepend
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ZLOADER to make all.lzcom, not LOADER.
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+ Charlie Brady donated a NE2100 (LANCE) card, so Ken Yap wrote a driver
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for it. Should work for other LANCE (7990, etc) based cards with some
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modifications.
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+ Markus Gutschke wrote rom-scan, and it is in contrib/.
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+ Hack rom-scan.c so that a DOS version can be compiled.
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+ Removed all.* targets from Makefile. The NIC specific loaders should be
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used in preference as the all.* loaders can run out of memory.
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+ Added a disable routine to dispatch table so that cards can be turned
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off before the loaded code is executed.
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+ Make INT19H the default.
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+ Rogier Wolff persuaded AW computer systems to contribute the Intel
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EtherExpressPro 100 driver. The binary to hex converter in contrib/
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is also from Rogier Wolff. Part of the work is sponsored by BitWizard
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NL (www.bitwizard.nl).
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+ Distribute with a subset of netboot-0.7.2 that doesn't have the bootrom
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portion.
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+ Release as 3.2.
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Major changes from 3.2 to 4.0
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+ Merged in Vlad Lungu's patches for DHCP support, ifdef'ed by DHCP_SUPPORT.
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+ XID matching fix also provided by Vlad Lungu.
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+ Merged in William Arbaugh's patches to make eepro driver work properly.
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+ Add to contrib/ better bin2intelhex from Jean Marc Lacroix.
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+ Patches from Jim Hague (thanks!) for the following:
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* Added PIO mode for 3c503 to ns8390.c. Changed the card detection to
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detect shared memory or PIO and use the selected one, and removed
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a jumper check that failed on the Bull (no jumpers).
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* Added more #ifdefs to ns8390.c to include only code relevant to the
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card being compiled, and removed unnecessary run-time card vendor
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behaviour branches - it's all now #ifdefd.
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* Added a -3 parameter to makerom to set the last two bytes to 0x80.
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These are the values they have in the 3Com Etherboot image that was
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in the Bull. (Also on the 3c503 card I have - Ken.) Also altered the
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Makefile to add this parameter when building a 3c503 image.
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* Modifies lzhuf.c, objdump86.c & size86.c to work on either-endian systems.
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* Adds a -DT503_AUI config paramter to let you choose AUI or BNC on
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3c503s. Previously it defaulted to AUI, and you had to change the
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code to alter it.
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* Changed the BCC include directory to /usr/bcc/include. If you use the
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BCC include files they don't define u_char, u_short etc. I've added
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these into linuxdef.h, ifdef'd on BCC.
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* Adds a trivial Linux 3c503 driver patch to the contrib directory
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to let it spot these 'ere Bull things.
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+ Charlie Brady confirmed that the Lance driver works with PCI so there
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is a new lancepci driver now.
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+ Removed support for NFS_BOOT; only TFTP booting supported now.
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+ Removed support for linear images; only tagged images supported now.
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+ Removed PRIORIZEBOOTPKERNEL and BOOTPKERNELONLY. Bootp reply must
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specify kernel name.
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+ Bug fix for 16 bit version of 3c509 driver: sign bit propagation bug.
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+ Revert to non-pausing versions of out[bw] and inb for NEx000 driver
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because of reports of timimg problems on some cards.
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+ New driver for NI6510. Just a simple tweak of the lance driver for
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different ID bytes and different register offsets. According to the
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NI6510 driver in Linux, the NI6510 Etherblaster is more like the NE2100
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and would be detected by the NE2100 driver. So use that one instead.
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+ New drivers for 3c507 and NI5210, both of which use the i82586 chip. It
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works properly for both now. I needed to have enough receive buffers to
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make sure i82586 never goes into an out of resources state. 3c507 driver
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has one quirk, it only responds after second bootp request. I seem to
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remember something about this problem of losing the first packet after
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initialisation in early Linux discussions. I am also now convinced
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that Intel designers have weird minds. BTW, NI5210 driver assumes 8k
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RAM because if you put the ROM on the NIC you can only have 8k RAM. If
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you are putting the ROM off-board and you want 16k, well, talk to me.
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+ Call nic_disable routine just before jumping to loaded image. This
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does nothing in most drivers, but may have side effects as the nic_reset
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routine used to be called instead.
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+ One of those "why I didn't think of it before" ideas: A modified version
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of comboot, called floppyload, that is prepended to the .rom image rather
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than the .com image and then both written raw to a floppy for testing the
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bootrom. All we have to do is jump to an entry point in (z)loader that
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skips the INT19H stuff. Relocation will happen automatically. Now the
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.com images and comboot are superfluous, unless one is masochistic enough
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to want to try to test under DOS.
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Added .fd0 targets to Makefile. Saying make <card>.fd0 will make
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floppyload.bin and <card>.rom, and cat both to /dev/fd0. Naturally the
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drive must be writable and you must have a floppy in the drive.
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+ New driver for Tiara (Fujitsu EtherStar). This was one of the easiest
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drivers to write. But the chip apparently has some quirks; there is no
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Linux driver for it in the standard distribution and the email address
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of someone who wrote an alpha driver is invalid. Perhaps I'll bump into
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an AT1700 (which has a similar chip) one day and be able to reuse a lot
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of the code.
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+ Updated contrib/mkelksnbi for ELKS 0.0.68.
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+ Confirmed that the SMC8216 driver works. 8416 not tested, it's a PnP
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card. Can anybody confirm this?
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+ New contributed software: p910nd, a tiny printer daemon suitable for
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diskless hosts.
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+ Made ANSIESC work for Etherboot/16.
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+ Fixed Makefile and Config.* so that it works with old binutils.
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+ Included a subset of netboot-0.7.3.
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+ Released as version 4.0.
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Changes between 4.0 and 4.1
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+ Patches by Andrew Coulthurst for eepro100b.
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+ Patches by Doug Ambrisko for booting Windows95 after answering N to
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the boot from network question. Added conditional code to cope with
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broken DHCP server and TAG 128.
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+ Put version and driver identifier at end of ROM image if it fits,
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to help identify ROMs in future.
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+ Capture ROM segment address and length to help choose between multiple
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NICs later.
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+ Don't clear all of memory because it will destroy return address
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on stack.
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+ Changes to comboot-1.2 (although obsolete) to run on 8088s.
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+ New version 0.2 of p910nd, a non-spooling printer daemon.
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+ Patches by Alex Harin to prepended loaders and makerom to generate PnP
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ready ROMs. Modified makerom to automatically detect PnP and PCI headers
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and do the right thing. Added option to change the vendor and device IDs.
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+ Augmented documentation for 2.1 and above kernels. Kernel now wants to
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mount /tftpboot/<hostname in bootptab> rather than /tftpboot/<ip address>
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as the root FS.
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+ Changed all the outb* and outw calls in drivers (except eepro) to be
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OUTB* and OUTW, then defined macros to translate to out[bp]* for both
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Etherboot/32 and Etherboot/16, instead of pasting macros from Linux
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|
|
include files because apparently they've changed in 2.1. At the same
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time reversed the arguments in start16.S for outb and outw to match the
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Linux convention. Unfortunately the out[bw] usage came that way from
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FreeBSD. Someday I'll reverse the arguments in the C files properly.
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For any new driver writers, you should use the Linux order now.
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+ New contributed utility, disnbi for decoding and extracting network
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boot images.
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+ Martin Atkins contributed mntnbi for mounting DOS NBIs.
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+ Peter Dobcsanyi contributed vendor and device IDs for the Netvin
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NE2000/PCI clone.
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+ adam AT mudlist PERIOD eorbit PERIOD net contributed RARP code as
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alternative to BOOTP/DHCP. Activated by RARP_NOT_BOOTP define.
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+ Added link to Claus-Justus Heine's NFS swap Web page and updated the
|
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|
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contrib directory.
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+ Disabled max packet length check in ns8390.c. Caused spurious Bogus
|
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|
|
packet messages in some cases and doesn't seem that useful a sanity
|
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check anyway.
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+ Daniel Engstrom contributed a SMC9000 driver.
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+ Didier Poirot contributed an Etherpower II (EPIC 100) driver.
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+ Added bug fix by Attila Bog<6F>r for bootmenu.c and patch to main.c to
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|
|
remove looping menus on failure. Also code for ARP replies and TFTP
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block retransmit (#ifdefed because controversial).
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+ Code cleanup of tftp and tftpd also by Attila Bog<6F>r.
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+ Nathan R. Neulinger fixed a bug with block being declared short instead
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|
|
of u_short in tftpd.c, which limited transfers to 32k blocks. Fixed
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|
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problem with field tu_block being declared as signed short in many
|
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|
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platforms by including fixed version of tftp.h. Fixed tftp also for
|
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good measure.
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+ New mini-HOWTO on a "ssh terminal".
|
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+ Andreas Mack pointed out that eepro100 doesn't compile on 2.1 and
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|
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2.2 kernels. Removed unnecessary include of bios32.h and reliance on
|
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|
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definition of virt_to_bus in kernel headers in eepro100.c, epic100.c
|
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and lance.c.
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+ David Sharp contributed a Tulip driver written for FreeBSD netboot.
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Ken Yap ported to Etherboot. Not tested yet because no hardware.
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+ Replaced references to arptable[ARP_CLIENT].node to nic->node_addr in
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eepro100.c and epic100.c as they should be.
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+ Greg Beeley of LightSys Technology Services contributed a 3c905b
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driver. Be sure to read the release notes in 3c905b.txt.
|
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+ G<>nter Knauf suggested making the prompt strings more generic and to
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put a newline after the answer. Beware, N now means Network boot and
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not No to network boot.
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+ Alex Nemirovsky contributed some patches for BIOSes that use an extended
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space at the top of 640k. Also some code for BIOSes that don't implement
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BIOS32 correctly or at all.
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+ Use PCI extension BIOS header only for PCI cards, all others use legacy
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extension BIOS header.
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+ Klaus Espenlaub contributed various cleanup patches to the code. Also
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introduced Rainer Bawidamann's code, see next paragraph.
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+ Rainer Bawidamann contributed a Realtek 8139 driver.
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+ Simplified rules for building .bin files, use -b of as86 so we
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don't need ld86 or objdump86 now. But later found that a fixed as86 is
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required. So supply preassembled binaries. The keen hackers can get the
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fixed tools.
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+ Georg Baum contributed a Schneider & Koch G16 driver. Only the
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32 bit version works at the moment; even though the 16 bit version
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compiles, it won't work because the current code assumes flat memory
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addressing. Anybody who needs the 16 bit version should feel free to
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fix it.
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+ Reduce size of ROM image loaded by floppyboot.bin from 64kB to 32kB
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for a slight speedup in loading. None of the images are even 32kB anyway.
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+ Updated some of the documents in doc/sgml.
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+ Klaus Espenlaub sent in a totally revamped start32.S, using the code16
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|
and code32 directives in recent GNU as (so if this file won't assemble
|
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maybe your as version is not recent enough). Also patches to the menu
|
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handling code.
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+ jluke AT deakin PERIOD edu PERIOD au sent in a fix for the WD/SMC8013
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long ago which I finally got around to verifying.
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+ start16.o and start32.o are supplied for those people who have problems
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compiling start*.S with as/as86.
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Released as Etherboot-4.2.0
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+ One line fix to 3c509b by Greg Beeley for Wake-On-LAN support.
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+ Added patches by Klaus Espenlaub that I forgot.
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+ Made AS_PSEUDOS not the default, assume that people have sufficiently
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up-to-date GNU as. If not they can uncomment that line.
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Released as Etherboot-4.2.1
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+ Disable 3c509 after loading finished or port may be unusable.
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+ Woops, forgot to up the version's last digit in the last release.
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+ Stephan Bauer sent in a device ID for config.c for 21142 chip Tulips.
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+ Ifdef out input overrun recovery code (it's really only needed for
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NE2000s) and use SHMEM by default for 3c503s to bring the ROM size down
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below 8kB.
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+ Added code to start32.S to detect < 386 and exit so it doesn't hang
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the computer. Doesn't print a message yet.
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+ Changed README.sgml to recommend that TFTP use a separate directory
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from NFS, /tftpdir. Added sample configuration file for DHCPD and caveat
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about the name of the root directory when using DHCPD.
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+ Revamped atnetboot.sgml: use mtools most of the time, write about a
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few example applications.
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+ Quick Perl script for converting bootptab to dhcpd.conf.
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Released as Etherboot-4.2.2
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+ Forgot to put new version of src/start32.o. Not urgent though, the
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extra code only guards against Etherboot/32 being executed on < 386.
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+ Supply version preassembled start32.o with ANSIESC and FLOPPY defined
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for those with a deficient as. Define dummy handleansi routine in
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ansiesc.c so that it will still link even if this start32.o is used.
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+ Edited *.asm so that they can be assembled by either as86 (ELKS version)
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or nasm.
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+ Changed Makefile so that one can choose between no as86, as86 or nasm.
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+ Added Mark Burazin's conditional code for Compex RL2000 PCI NIC.
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+ Increase delay during probe phase to 10ms as 1ms is too low for some
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3c509 boards. Donald Becker's Linux driver hints that > 2ms is needed
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to be safe. Also call t509_disable in case board was active.
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+ Update README.sgml date and version.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.3.
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+ rtl8139.c: Reduce the number of transmit buffers to reduce footprint.
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Remove polling loop in *_loop(), caller already does the looping.
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+ main.c: Fix code indentation in bootp().
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+ Small corrections to documentation.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.4.
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+ Matthias Meixner found a longstanding bug in rtl8139.c where it was
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testing the wrong bit for the existence of a packet in the buffer.
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+ Added paragraph to documentation about caveats for hosting NFS root
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on a different architecture.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.5.
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+ Updated mklnim for RH6.0 which uses a different floppy image and
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requires 'network' to be appended to kernel parameters.
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+ Reversed sense of #ifdef DHCP_SUPPORT to #ifndef NO_DHCP_SUPPORT and
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so forth, i.e. the default is with DHCP support.
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+ Suggest reducing options for rtl8139 driver to minimise footprint in
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release notes.
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+ Jim McQuillan provided changes to support the SMC1211, which uses the
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RTL8139 chip.
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+ Changed lret in start32.S to int $0x19 so that it doesn't depend on
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the return location being there.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.6
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+ Succeeded in booting FreeDOS with the kernel in the tagged image rather
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than on the ramdisk, i.e. the boot process jumps directly to the kernel
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in memory. The utility is mkfreedosnbi in contrib/.
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+ Additions to the documentation.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.7
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+ Matt Hortman pointed out that the BIOS clock value returned by INT1AH
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rolls over at midnight, causing delay loops that cross midnight to
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fail. Fix was to keep track of midnight crossings in currticks so that
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currticks' return value is monotonically increasing.
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+ Added paragraph to documentation about editing PCI vendor and device
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IDs in Makefile if needed.
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+ Merged in FreeBSD support code supplied by Doug Ambrisko. Thanks!
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.8
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+ Cleaned up the FreeBSD support in osloader.c. Symbols to use in Config
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are to select image type, not FreeBSD specific now.
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+ Added simple signature checking code in floppyload.asm in case somebody
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forgets to append a ROM image or tries to load a non-ROM image.
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+ Merged in 3c90x and multiple PCI bus support by Steve Smith. Thanks!
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+ Included NT-Diskless-Terminal HOWTO by Pavel Tkatchouk.
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+ Included snapshot of H. Peter Anvin's rewrite of tftp.
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+ Combined tftp and tftpd directories, and touched up Makefile to reflect
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normal Linux install directories.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.9
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+ NT-Diskless-Terminal HOWTO renamed to Diskless-From-NT.
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+ One line fix to mknbi-dos to recognise FAT16 filesystems as legal.
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Updated first.S in mknbi-dos so that it can be assembled by nasm and is
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also suitable for FreeDOS with the right define. Still backward compatible
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with as86. Bug fix at line starting getnm3:.
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+ Updated first.S in mknbi-linux so that it can be assembled by nasm also.
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+ Locate bootp data block at 0x93C00-0x93FFF to free up 1024+ bytes in
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[0x98000-0x9FFFF]. Etherboot/32 only, business as usual for Etherboot/16.
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+ Patch from Attila Bog<6F>r to make CONGESTED a compile option for
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TFTP_TIMEOUT. Also corrected spelling of his name in README.
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+ Fixed start32.S to assemble correctly with gas version 2.95. Must
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define GAS295 in CFLAGS.
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+ Add contrib/3c90xutil containing a utility for handling 3c90x EEPROMs
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in situ.
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+ Update p910nd to 0.3. client.pl now checks if hostname is known and
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uses more convenient routines from Socket module.
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+ Moved the Flashcard directory into a separate package as it's of
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limited interest.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.10
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+ Fixed bug introduced in 4.2.10 in code for handling bootp extension
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files.
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+ Change in 3c90x.c so that it can compile under FreeBSD.
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+ Patch to tulip.c from Nick Lopez to handle Macronix 98715 (Tulip clone).
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.11
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+ Prefer RFC1533_GATEWAY to giaddr for routing tftp packets.
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+ Print out both relay address and gateway address.
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+ Stored arptable ipaddrs in network byte order. Makes everything simpler
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and we can get rid of convert_ipaddr. Now %I in printf and inet_ntoa
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have to deal with NBO. We reduce the footprint by ~100 bytes.
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+ Renamed setip to more standard inet_ntoa and change argument type to
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suit, using in_addr.
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+ Replaced bcmp by memcmp, bzero by memset, and bcopy by memcpy. Allows
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us to use optimised versions in inline assembler.
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+ Replaced OUTB and OUTW by outb and outw with arguments reversed.
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Finally all the out macros are the same form as for Linux.
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+ Replaced \r\n and \n\r in output strings with \n since putchar
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now prints \r before \n. Then changed printf("\n") to putchar('\n').
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Like Unix convention for strings now.
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+ Got rid of test.c and Makefile rules connected with it.
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+ Added patch to eepro100.c by Matt Hortman to correct PCI latency.
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+ Merged in Marty Connor's ntulip.c. Now supports Macronix 98715 and
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Linksys LNE100TX.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.12
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+ Anders Larsen contributed mkQNXnbi, for generating tagged images from
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QNX kernels.
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+ Bernd Wiebelt contributed code to request vendor tags in DHCP.
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+ Fixed more bugs introduced in 4.2.10 in code for handling bootp
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extension files.
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Released as Etherboot 4.2.13
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+ Marty Connor reduced RTL8139 footprint by using only one transmit
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buffer instead of 4. Now RTL8139 is reliable.
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+ Moved initialised data declaration from ns8390.h to ns8390.c.
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+ Contributed utilities for wake-on-LAN: wol.c (Bob Edwards) and wake.pl.
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+ Makefile for 3c90xutil/romutil.c. -O is essential when compiling.
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+ Happy year 2000!
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Released as Etherboot 4.4.0
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+ VIA-Rhine driver contributed by Paolo Marini. Footprint reduced by
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Marty Connor.
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+ Netgear FA310TX (Tulip clone, LC82C168 chip) support added by Marty
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Connor.
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+ Support for 3C905C added by Marty Connor.
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+ mklnim updated to support SuSE 6.x also.
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Released as Etherboot 4.4.1
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+ New configuration file scheme to specify what ROMs are built.
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+ Adam Fritzler contributed 3c529 (MCA version of 3c509) support in
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driver.
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+ Marty Connor wrote a version of 3c90xutil/romutil for 905C NICs.
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+ G<>nter Knauf contributed a wake on LAN CGI script.
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+ Notes in contrib/eepro100notes on how to flash the EEPROM.
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+ Happy Australia Day, 2000-01-26.
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Released as Etherboot 4.4.2
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+ hwilmer AT gmx PERIOD de found a probe error in 3c507.c, shouldn't
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mask memory size with 0xffffL, this fails with 64kB memory. Also
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changed to use real-time-clock to timeout on initialisation of i82586
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rather than relying on decrementing a variable (which is CPU speed
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dependent).
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+ James Pearson pointed out that ~ should be escaped as ˜ in
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vendortags.sgml. Also cleaned up the 8-bit characters while I was at it.
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+ G<>nter Knauf pointed out that if ASK_BOOT is defined, then key input
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echos twice. Also, CR doesn't select the default. Problem was that getchar
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converts all \r to \n then main.c was testing against \r instead of \n,
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and also that getchar() was echoing when it should leave it to the caller.
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Deleted code from getchar() and made it a function with no arguments.
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Also sent me a new version of mp-form.pl with mp-form.txt. Also suggested
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the good idea that the gateway and relay fields not be displayed if they
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are not used.
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+ Bob Edwards sent in patches to ntulip.c to autodetect 100 Mb media
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for 21142/3 NICs.
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+ Okuji Yoshinori found a small bug in main.c: for (retry1 = 0; retry < ..
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Don't know what effect it had.
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+ Klaus Espenlaub sent patches which make the RTL8139 driver more
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reliable, see notes in rtl8139.c.
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+ Russ Nelson gave permission to release cs89x0 driver with Etherboot.
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It's normally under GPL. Moved cs89x0 driver to src directory, removed
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|
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cs89x0.sgml.
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+ Clarified copyrights of files in distribution.
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Released as Etherboot 4.4.3
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+ Klaus Espenlaub sent in some patches to overcome the 64K block rollover
|
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problem in tftp.
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+ Bob Edwards, Paul Mackerras and Marty Connor worked out fixes to
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ntulip.c to handle 21142/3 Tulips properly.
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+ Karsten Tinnefeld sent in a Makefile fragment for doc/sgml/Makefile
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to generate DVI and PS files using sgml2latex.
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+ tulip.* renamed to otulip.*, ntulip.* renamed to tulip.*
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+ Added FAQ and Writing an Etherboot Driver sections to README.
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+ Woops, if and of swapped in dd command in atnetboot.sgml.
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Released as Etherboot 4.4.4
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+ FUKUHARA Makoto supplied a patch for 4.4.4 for FreeBSD ELF booting
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with large tftp blocks which I missed putting in.
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+ Small patch by Marty Connor to tulip.c to handle fast Tulips better.
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+ Wrote small loader to load images from .com files.
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+ Shusuke Nisiyama contributed a 3c595 (and may work for 3c590) driver.
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Released as Etherboot 4.4.5
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A major reorganisation by Klaus Espenlaub. Here are his notes, verbatim:
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The biggest change is the almost rewritten Makefiles (both in src and in
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doc - the one in doc is still reasonably simple). If you want to get
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an overview - basically one Makefile now builds both /16 and /32 ROMs.
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This involves quite a few make variables (similarly in Config), but it
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should be mostly self-explaining. I also converted the suffix rules to
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pattern rules, because it is the only way to keep the build directories
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for /16 and /32 apart.
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Generally all /32 code is compiled in bin32, all /16 code is compiled
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in bin16, and the code that works for both is in bin.
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The names (object files, images, but NOT the final ROMs) used during
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the build process for some PCI cards have changed (especially lancepci
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and nepci).
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I eliminated the driver.a file by adding yet more ugly code to genrules.pl
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(no, I'm not very proud of the code I added there - I hate perl, but
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at least it works), which now generates all sorts of make rules and
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dependency information. This eliminates the redundant recompile of all
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other drivers if you specified a specific target at the make command line.
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There are now automatic checks for the generated ROM size (3K safety
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margin are used to allow for 1K BIOS EBDA and 2K stack). This should
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avoid most of the cases in which the stack overwrites code and/or data,
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causing strange crashes.
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On to the real code - I rewrote both the ELF and a.out loading (the
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blocksize is now properly handled for all formats), and now most of the
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code is identical. Someone might want to merge the two. I verified that
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both a.out and ELF FreeBSD loading still works by booting the FreeBSD
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2.2.8 and 3.4 install kernels (the ELF kernel you gave me didn't work
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for whatever reason). Actually I tested everything except NBI, but that
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code is completely unchanged.
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I eliminated config.h and created cards.h - just have a look and you
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should get the idea. The PCI/ISA prototype matching hack is now buried
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in there. All PCI drivers (and skel.c) have been converted to the new
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include file.
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The only file that is really new is nfs.c, which contains the code where
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I started my journey.
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The loader code is now merged into one file for both the normal and
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compressed case. Some bugs have been fixed along the way (the normal
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loader copied too much data, potentially crashing the machine). BTW: I
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removed the block copy from comboot, because the first thing the loader
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code does is - to copy the code to the right place. Also copying it to
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0x80000 prevents compressed ROMs (though there is no way in the Makefile
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to create such a beast). Also the stack changing code was wrong -
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the overflow handling is missing: 0x9fxxxx-0x800000 is truncated to
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fit in the 16 bit register, which is not quite what one would expect.
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The stack pointer must be in the same segment, so for overflows just
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load 0. Anyway, we don't need a new stack for 4 bytes (the return
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address). Also the shifts won't work on an 8086/8088. The ROM segment
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and length code is also done once more in loader.S. Finally the org
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0x100 didn't work with my version of as86 - it prepended 256 null bytes.
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Don't get me wrong - I see that comboot was just a quick and dirty hack.
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It's now working...
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I also fixed floppyload to read exactly the right amount of data (not
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up to 65520 bytes more like the Linux code did) and ripped out some
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unused code.
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3c509.c: includes fixed, const added, static added, removed redundant code
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3c90x.c: includes fixed, const added, shortened messages to save space,
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made the transceiver selection bootrom fix optional (default: off),
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updated 3c90x.txt
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ansiesc.c: de-tftpified (now uses "download")
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config.c: moved the driver prototypes to separate file, added a few const
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cs89x0.c: ansified, const added, fixed timeout handling
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eepro100.c: includes fixed, const added, static added, USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER
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hack, passing globals as a parameter removed, timeout handling fixed,
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comments fixed
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epic100.c: comments fixed, const added, static added, USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER
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hack, removed unused variables, changed debug code to use macro instead
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of variable, allow broadcasts to be received (after all how did it
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work before???)
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etherboot.h: dual/serial console "cleanups", added NFS support, fixed
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INTERNAL_BOOTP_DATA for pathologic cases, removed prototype within comment
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(how did that end up there?), moved prototypes for config.c code here,
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added consts all over the place
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floppy.c: added static, changed cleanup code
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floppyload.S: renamed from .asm
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genrules.pl: I didn't write this :)
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i82586.c: fixed includes, added const
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lance.c: fixed DMA for PCI cards, removed leftovers from Linux driver,
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USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER hack
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linux-asm-io.h: added prototypes
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linux-asm-string.h: added prototypes
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loader.S: renamed from loader.asm, more comments see elsewhere in
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this mail
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loader.inc: removed
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main.c: includes fixed, static and const added, Etherboot/32 now prints
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relocaddr, hooks for NFS support, drain the Rx queue in some strategic
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places (after sleep), changed interface to await_reply: timeout handling,
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new cleanup code
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misc.c: ansified, twiddle code changed, strcasecmp enabled for
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Etherboot/16 (smaller than the 16 bit libc version), clear A20 before
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kernel is started (only for NBI), dual console fixes, removed bogus
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comment about interrupt enabling using iskey()
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nic.h: include guard added, added const
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ns8390.c: fixed includes for PCI version, added const, ansified, renamed
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internal functions
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osdep.h: removed #include <asm/byteorder.h> - probably all #ifdef
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__linux__ and __FreeBSD__ may be removed now.
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osloader.c: see elsewhere in this mail. removed loads of debugging code.
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otulip.c: removed unused variables, USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER hack, ansified,
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added const
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otultip.h: added const
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pci.c: fixed signed comparison
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pci.h: include guard added, const added
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rtl8139.c: static added, const added, globals are no longer passes as
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parameters, fixed probe loop
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serial.S: removed the Makefile hack to calculate the divisor and replace
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it by a CPP hack
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sk_g16.c: added static/const
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skel.c: updated
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smc9000.c: fixed includes, added const, fixed timeout, removed unused
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variables
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start16.S: changed stack pointer reloading
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start32.S: cleaned up GAS295 support, fixed CPU detection, fixed memsize
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for > 64MB, added basememsize()
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tiara.c: fixed includes, added const, removed unused variable
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tulip.c: fixed includes, added const, decreased oversized frame tolerance,
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USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER hack, converted to C comments, fixed prototypes,
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removed unused variable
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via-rhine.c: fixed includes, converted to C comments, removed unused
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functions, fixed timeout, USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER hack, removed unused
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variable, const added
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lzhuf.c was modified not to output ':' characters, because I find it
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useful to search for them in a make log to spot all error messages.
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Finally all symlinks have gone
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I fixed sgml/vendortags.sgml (maybe it's more a workaround): sgml2txt
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didn't like the ~~' sequence and ignored a whole line, making the .txt
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file incomplete. Also freebsd.txt was converted to sgml.
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My standard patch to netboot-0.8.1/configure (to remove the "unknown") is
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again in place - how is this file created? By hand? I added serial/dual
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console support to mknbi-linux.
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Oh, and something I almost forgot: Etherboot now works under VMware.
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VMware has a rather large EBDA (3K instead of 1K like most other
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BIOS versions), so one might have to sacrifice a few nifty options.
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Note that the Makefile check cannot detect this - maybe we should add a
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runtime check, too? One thing that doesn't work with VMware is the "Boot
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Local" stuff - it's not terribly useful if you have to boot from disk,
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but it shouldn't crash the machine (I've seen several triple faults,
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depending on RELOCADDR and the stack usage). I tracked it down to the
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fact that VMware crashes on int 0x19 if the memory area 0x98000-0x9f3ff
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is overwritten. If one changes RELOCADDR to 0x8f000, everything works
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nicely. Someone should report the bug to VMware. Also proper boot ROM
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support should be added to VMware and they should upgrade the virtual
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card to 100Mbps (don't laugh - they limit the bandwidth to 10Mbps even
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if you have a real 100Mbps card!). Maybe one could even use the flash
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utility for the recent AMD PCnet cards...
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Released as Etherboot 4.5.5
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+ More fixes from Klaus Espenlaub, based on bug reports by Doug Ambrisko
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and others. Small cleanups in tulip.c. He also added a BACKOFF_LIMIT
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parameter to the exponential backoff for retry intervals.
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+ Christoph Willing sent in a fix for PCI NE2000s which forces 16-bit
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transfer mode for PCI. This might make it work on some PCI NE2000s that
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failed before, please test if you can.
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+ Moved commercial links off main web page into web page of its own.
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+ Merged in TRY_FLOPPY_FIRST code from <as AT bart PERIOD nl>.
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Released as Etherboot 4.5.6
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+ Frank Mehnert spotted a bug in tulip.c where the sole transmit buffer
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was not tagged as the last one in the chain.
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+ Hacked serial.S to check if a serial interface is present and to disable
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the routines if not, so that Etherboot does not hang on a machine without
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a serial interface, even if the option has been compiled in.
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+ Wrote mkromnbi for making a network bootable image from a ROM image
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(for using Etherboot to test another Etherboot driver).
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+ Krzysztof Halasa found a small bug in nfs.c in the handling of BOOTP
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extension files.
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+ Some instructions on adding Etherboot to a main BIOS were contributed
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by Dirk von Suchodoletz.
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+ Some commentary on cbrom.exe versions posted by Rapp Informatik Systeme
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GmbH to the Netboot mailing list included.
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Released as Etherboot 4.5.7
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+ Patrick Auge pointed out that -DT503_SHMEM option should be not used
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by default, as the comments say.
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+ Heinrich Rebehn pointed out that the documentation needed to be updated
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for the new bin32 and bin16 prefixes for targets.
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+ Christoph Plattner found that node_addr in struct nic should be unsigned
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char * or problems occur in the handling of the MAC address in cs89x0.c.
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+ Greg Hudson pointed out that inet_ntoa is misnamed, it should be
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inet_aton.
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+ Vsevolod Sipakoff suggested that the probe address list for NE2000
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should match that of Linux. Done, with the deletion of 0x360 which often
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conflicts with the parallel port at 0x378.
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+ Created mknbi, a Perl utility that replaces mknbi-dos, mknbi-linux,
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mkfreedosnbi, and mkromnbi. Removed mk{freedos,rom,elks}nbi/ from
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contrib/. (ELKS has its own tagged image creation method now.)
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+ Removed obsolete/ from contrib/.
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Released as Etherboot 4.5.8
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+ Some small enhancements to mknbi. Merged in disnbi and mklnim. Changed
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version to 1.0.
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+ netboot-0.8.1 directories distributed separately now.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.0
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+ Nick Lopez discovered that the Davicom 9102 is Yet Another Tulip Clone
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and a few appropriate initialisations will make it work.
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+ Matthew Reimer sent in patches for contrib/3c90xutil.c/bromutil.c to
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compile and run under FreeBSD.
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+ Krzysztof Halasa found that the number of buffers in epic100.c needed
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to be raised to 2 each for operation at 10 Mb for the PCI EtherPower
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9432B-TX using the SMC 83C171.
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+ Klaus Espenlaub fixed the root path handling in main.c, it wasn't
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requesting option 17 in DHCP. Also removed one prototype warning in
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tftp().
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+ Daniel Shane sent in code for for adding identifiers to a DHCP request,
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using a user specified DHCP option. The patch is in contrib/dhcpid.
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+ Bug fix in mknbi-1.0 for the ipaddrs=rom option, warnings about badly
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formed specification to ipaddrs= or unresolvable names.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.1
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+ Stuart Lynne sent in patches to allow - to mean reuse kernel filename
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in menu specifications. Also fixed DHCP request to ask for tags 129 and
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130 (Ken added this), as the mknbi man page promised.
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+ Fixed URL for Richard Ferri's LUI.
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+ Added URL for Gregory R. Warnes' ClusterNFS.
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+ Changed RFC2132_MAX_SIZE option in main.c to allow maximum size DHCP
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replies.
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+ Matthias Schniedermeyer submitted an optional feature to use numbers
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instead of letters for bootmenu entries.
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+ Brought some FAQs up to date with mknbi-1.0.
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+ Wrote perl script mklrpnb for making netboot image from Linux Router
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Project floppy. Tested on Coyote Linux (based on LRP).
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.2
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+ Re-enabled tulip.c:tulip_disable() code.
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+ Minor fix to SHOW_NUMERIC code in bootmenu.c.
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+ Minor spelling corrections to vendortags.sgml.
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+ andreas.kabel AT slac PERIOD stanford PERIOD edu pointed out that to
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be RFC951 compliant, the broadcast BOOTP request near line 705 of main.c
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should use port BOOTP_CLIENT and thus stand a better chance of going
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through firewalls.
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+ Christoph Plattner found that the 16 bit bus width fix for NEPCI cards
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introduced in 4.5.6 breaks operation for other NEPCI cards. So now the
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#define symbol is NS8390_FORCE_16BIT, to be used when the NIC requires
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16 bit bus width but Etherboot guesses wrong. This needs to be fixed
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later to autodetect adapter bus width.
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+ Shusuke Nisiyama sent me the PCI IDs for 3C595 NICs so that ROM images
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could be generated for them.
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+ Jim McQuillan sent in modifications to tulip.c to reject bad packets.
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+ Klaus Espenlaub suggested changing the filename substition macro in the
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IDENT16 and IDENT32 strings to $(@F) so that only the filename portion of
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the pathname is inserted. Otherwise the contributed romid program breaks.
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+ Added author ident and copyright status to contrib/bin2intelhex.c.simple
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at Rogier Wolff's request.
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+ G<>nter Knauff sent updates to romid and mp-form.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.3
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+ Marty Connor contributed patches to tulip.c to support the LinkSys
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LNE100TX v4 NICs.
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+ Added rmrd.com to mknbi-1.0 directory.
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+ Added experimental changes to allow RELOCADDR to be changed to 0x88000
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to avoid Disk On Chip drivers. See RELNOTES and Makefile for details.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.4
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+ Chris Johns found a long-standing bug in first-linux.S. ES would
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sometimes != CS, making the ramdisk moving fail.
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+ Made --harddisk work for mknbi-fdos.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.5
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+ Bug in mknbi-dos, last sector omitted in ramdisk image.
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+ Use ceil() for computing number of rootdir sectors.
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+ --harddisk now works for mknbi-dos also.
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+ Should work on FAT16 partitions now.
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+ New driver for Winbond W89C840 by Igor V. Kovalenko.
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+ Modification to loader.S by Steve Smith for some PCI BIOSes that don't
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handle INT19H well.
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+ Small bug in osloader.c, j not defined in two places if DELIMITERLINES
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defined.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.6 (developmental)
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+ All the changes from 4.6.5 to 4.6.6 back propagated except for the
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loader.S change.
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+ Removed -nostdlib from ld flags. Seems to be a vestige from when we
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were calling gcc as it's not an ld option.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.6
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+ Contributed one-line patch to allow booting from SCSI disks also (sd).
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+ Grzegorz Jablonski sent in a fix for long-standing bug in loader.S that
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prevented booting on some BIOSes.
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+ More updates to documentation.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.7
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+ Rick Kennell pointed out that there is another place in main.c where
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the DHCP request is sent with a source port of 0, which may not elicit
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replies from some DHCP servers or pass gateways. Changed to
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BOOTP_CLIENT.
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+ Depca driver finally works.
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+ Changed unsigned int len; to int len; in 3c595.c transmit routine
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which was generating a warning from gcc.
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+ Removed warning about ljmp indirect without * in start32.S by putting
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in the *. Checked that generated code has not changed by comparing
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binaries. Later: But only for gas 2.9.5 and above, gas 2.9.1 doesn't
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like *.
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+ Wanted to do the same for the lcall's in pci.c but discovered that
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gas 2.9.1 chokes on *, and as I don't want to introduce more #ifdefs
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into pci.c, we'll just live with the warnings until gas 2.9.1 is dead
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or the incorrect syntax is rejected by a current gas release.
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+ Reversed #define so that GAS291 indicates gas 2.9.1. Rationale: gas
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2.10 probably behaves like gas 2.9.5 so the default should be the new
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behaviour.
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+ NI5010 driver finally works. Weird NIC, has only 2kB memory on board
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so if you don't switch to the receiver immediately after transmitting
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you will lose the reply packet. (This is a very ancient board, I was
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doing the driver for kicks.)
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+ Implemented a low-overhead timer routine for implementing timeouts in
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drivers. This timer should be used instead of hacks with integer loops
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(which are CPU speed dependent) or calling currticks(), which has
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relatively high overhead because it reads the BIOS timer, and has a
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resolution of only 1/18th of a second. Timer 2 of the 8254 timer chip
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can be loaded with an unsigned 16-bit value that will be decremented at
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about 1193 counts per ms (constant TICKS_PER_MS in timer.h). So the
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maximum timeout that can be implemented with a single call is about 54
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ms. Call load_timer(u16) to load and start the timer (0 == 65536). Call
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int timer2_running() to check if it is still active. timer2_running can
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be interleaved with other tests, e.g. on the NIC hardware registers.
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When the timer runs down to 0, it will return 0. If you just need to
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delay a short time, call waiton_timer2(u16) to load and delay that many
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ticks.
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+ Removed slowdownio() from sources. It's called in only one place and
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is followed by a call to currticks() which will result in a large delay
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anyway. It's also not clear if the strategy in slowdownio (a couple of
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local jumps) will even work on fast CPUs with instruction caches.
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+ Removed support for %i (alias for %d) in printf. Nobody uses it, if
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they do they should just edit the format string to use %d, and removing
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it means one less non-standard format in printf; we have %X, %b and %I
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as it is.
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+ Simplified currticks() by accessing BIOS variables directly instead of
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calling timeofday BIOS interrupt.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.8
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+ I'm pissed off with the inconsistency between gas 2.9.1 and gas 2.9.5
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re ljmp * (indirect jump). Some assemblers claiming to be 2.9.5 dislike
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the * (RH6.2's is one). I'm going to just make it ljmp and live with the
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warning message until the gas 2.9.1 syntax is totally dead.
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+ Various fixes from Klaus Espenlaub: Fix for NFS booting from *BSD
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platforms, fix for Lance driver, interrupt was being turned on, fix for
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serial.S and code cleanups.
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+ Paul Robertson of Locsoft found that if the top half of %esp contains
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garbage just before the first call to real_to_prot in start32.S, it can
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affect booting on some BIOSes. Inserted andl to clear top half.
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+ Sleep for 2 seconds after failure to load file to avoid pounding the
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server if the file does not exist and thus shutting down the tftp
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service (inetd has rather poor rate controls).
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+ Shredda of gmx.de reported a discrepancy between the Macronix MX98715
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device IDs used in pci.h and NIC. Marty Connor has ruled that the id in
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NIC is a typo. If booting works from floppy but not from ROM, this may
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be the reason.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.9
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+ Oops, a brown paper bag bug in start32.S. Forgot that the currticks()
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needs interrupts enabled to work. Calling the BIOS allowed interrupts to
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happen by going into real mode (interrupts are disabled in protected
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mode). So inserted prot_to_real and real_to_prot pair inside
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currticks().
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.10
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+ Marty Connor and Gary Byers of thinguin.org contributed a LILO prefix
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file that makes the Etherboot image look like a Linux kernel to LILO and
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thus bootable from the LILO prompt.
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+ Ifdefed out code in mknbi that falls back to the tftp directory for
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root-path. The result is that the options passed to the kernel specifies
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the tftp directory as nfsroot even if there is no root-path option in
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the DHCP or BOOT server configuration. This interacts badly with recent
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Linux kernels which actually pay attention to the root-path handed down
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and use that as nfsroot. People who were expecting the diskless kernel
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to use the default /tftpboot/<name of client> as nfsroot would have been
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surprised to find it trying to use the tftp directory (which often
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happens to be /tftpboot, although I recommend that it be different, to
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improve security).
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+ Eric Biederman found an off-by-one bug in the ELF loader.
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+ Christoph Plattner pointed out that the comments for COMCONSOLE in
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Config are wrong, the serial port is at 3F8, not 378.
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+ A couple of updates to wol.c and wake.pl by G<>nter Knauff.
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+ The Davicom 9009 and 9102 driver was contributed by Sten Wang of
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Davicom. It will be merged into tulip.c later.
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+ Implement eepro100_disable. There have been reports of memory
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corruption after Etherboot has handed over to the booted image due to
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the live controller.
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+ Matt Hortman reported a new Intel NIC, 82559ER, with different IDs.
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Added to file NIC.
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+ Ranjan Parthasarathy reported another Tulip clone from ST Micro with
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different IDs. Added to file NIC.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.11
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+ Stefan Lesicnik sent in a report from Intel which explains what is
|
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probably wrong with the PnP header. BEV should point to the mainline
|
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vector, not to the part that installs the INT19H vector.
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+ Hopefully finally fixed DHCP option limit problem. It was requesting
|
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|
|
large packets but not parsing them fully due to the length limit passed
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into decode_rfc1533(). Thanks to shredda for testing this.
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+ Added the # modifier to printf, it prefixes 0x to %x and %X making
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printf formats shorter throughout. 0x%[xX] changed to %#[xX] in lots of
|
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files. Now if only I could make b,x,X the standard hhx,hx,x and get rid
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of I.
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+ Andreas Neuhaus provided patches for multiple rx buffers for lance.c
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which made it work again with VMware.
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+ Perl script to convert floppyfw floppies to netbootable images.
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+ Marty Connor made some small changes to liloprefix and Makefile to
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make the LILO images SYSLINUX bootable also.
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+ Make the default return value for _poll in skel.c 0 so that when
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driver writers implement _transmit first, it will not hang on garbage
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return values from _poll when it's called to flush the input queue
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before the first transmit.
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+ EEPRO/10 driver now works. <20>s timer routines came in useful.
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+ Anders Larsen sent in a patch to 3c90x.txt which makes it clearer.
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+ Added more stuff to the documentation.
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+ Fixed bug in mknbi that always did the equivalent of --ipaddrs=rom
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no matter what. Also removed undef from my variable list in TruncFD.pm
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so that it won't have problems with Perl interpreters.
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Released as Etherboot 4.6.12
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+ Jim McQuillan sent in a patch for first-linux.S where it was assuming
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the argument in tag 129 (additional parameters) is a null terminated
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string, when it's a length counted string. A new routine, addkarg was
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created to handle this.
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+ eepro100 should handle newer NICs with 256 byte EEPROMs now. This
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includes the onboard NICs on some motherboards, see file NIC. Thanks to
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Stephan Lauffer for helping with the fixes. WARNING: This code may have
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a bug that causes the onboard EEPROM to be corrupted. We believe we have
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found and removed the bug but please proceed with care.
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+ DHCPDISCOVER was sending out one byte too many for PARAM_LIST.
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+ In DHCPDISCOVER send "Etherboot" in VENDOR_CLASS_ID option (60). Will
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add code later to check for "Etherboot" in vendor encapsulated options.
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+ Used <20>s timer routines in 3c509 for more accurate timing and hence
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better hardware detection. Use COMMAND_IN_PROGRESS bit to detect
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transmit complete instead of waiting for a fixed amount of time. Get rid
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of eth_vendor and associated tests, it doesn't serve any useful purpose
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since the driver was modularised long ago and the 3c509 detection status
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is stored outside of the driver now. Got rid of some unused global
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statics in 3c509.c, leftovers when the drivers were monolithic. Wait 2
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seconds after enabling TP interface to give it time to come up. This
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allows us to get rid of T509HACK in main.c.
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+ Get rid of eth_vendor and associated tests in cs89x0.c, same reasons
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as for 3c509.c.
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+ Moved the rest of the VENDOR_ and FLAG_ defines into ns8390.h, as
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ns8390.c is the only file that uses them now.
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+ Use lower 32 bits of node address + current time for xid (network byte
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order). More likely to be distinct from other clients than just the
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current time, which is similar for all clients booted at about the same
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time.
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+ Support for 16-bit code has been removed. XTs and ATs are pretty much
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dead now and in fact many Etherboot/16 drivers have been broken for a
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while but nobody noticed. This should make some of the code easier to
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maintain. If you really wanted 16 bit support, use an older version of
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Etherboot, maybe 4.4 or something like that, not sure when things
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started breaking for 16 bit mode.
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+ Should not store IP and UDP headers at BOOTP_DATA_ADDRESS. Redefined
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bootp_t without IP and UDP headers. Now requested size of bootp packet
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matches storage available. Do not add sizeof(iphdr) + sizeof(udphdr) to
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bootp pointer in start32.S:xstart now. start16.S:xstart was broken
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because it did not do this addition but nobody noticed.
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+ Removed array kernel_buf, saving 128 bytes and replaced with
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KERNEL_BUF, a pointer into the bp_file of the bootp_reply structure at
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BOOTP_DATA_ADDR. Note: this depends on the server not sending Option
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Overload which would use the sname and file fields for options, but we
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don't request this option so it shouldn't. Removed char *kernel,
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instead check KERNEL_BUF[0] just before booting and if null, use
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fallback filename. (This is needed for future extensions to booting
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protocol.)
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+ Define a shorter tftpreq_t type for making requests instead of using a
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full sized tftp_t packet to reduce stack usage.
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+ Defined macros for htonl/htons/ntohl/ntohs for cases where the operand
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is a constant, saving a function call.
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+ Started on first32.c, a protected mode 32-bit version of
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first-linux.S, which should be far easier to read and maintain. Will
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boot basic Linux kernels correctly but doesn't handle ramdisk or
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kernel arguments yet.
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+ Updated nfs-swap documentation in contrib/nfs-swap to point to
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Claus-Justus Heine's new web page.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.13 (development)
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+ Added more IDs for eepro100 variants taken from the Linux 2.2.18
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source. Should handle the EEPROM properly now, a few defines were wrong
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in 4.7.13. Loop counter timeouts in eepro100.c replaced with hardware
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timeouts. Don't loop waiting for packet in _poll, return 0 immediately.
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+ first32.linux works. Does kernel arguments and ramdisk but doesn't do
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appended parameters from menu selections, which should be replaced by a
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more elegant menu scheme anyway. Needed gateA20 routines in
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mknbi-1.1/first32.c otherwise cannot access extended memory.
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first32.linux should be able to handle memory > 64 MB, which the old one
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couldn't. Support for first32pm call protocol added.
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+ 3c595.c changed to use hardware timer for delays. Transmit routine
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waits for a fixed period after transmitting. Changed to check
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S_COMMAND_IN_PROGRESS bit. It also contains some of the same unused
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variables as 3c509.c and mentions 3c509 in some comments. Cleaned up.
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+ Hmm, how come this wasn't fixed long ago? Should discard BOOTP/DHCP
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replies that are not to broadcast or own MAC address. I guess xid caught
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practically all of the non-matching packets. (Later: Actually the NIC
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should filter out packets we don't want, but leave test in anyway, it's
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the last test.)
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+ Removed last vestiges of ETHERBOOT32 and ETHERBOOT16.
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+ ETHER_ADDR_SIZE => ETH_ALEN, ETHER_HDR_SIZE => ETH_HLEN,
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ETHER_MIN_PACKET => ETH_ZLEN, ETHER_MAX_PACKET => ETH_FRAME_LEN. More
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|
Linuxy and therefore more familiar to programmers.
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+ Cleared up confusion with 60/64 and 1514/1518 for minimum and maximum
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frame sizes. Practically always the right numbers are 60/1514, except
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that some chips count the FCS in the receive length, then we have to use
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64/1518.
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+ Make __swap32 and __swap16 inline routines available globally as
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swap32 and swap16. eepro.c can use swap16 instead of making up one.
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+ Make aui field in nic.h an int since it will be padded to a longword
|
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boundary anyway and call it flags so that other drivers can use it for
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their own purposes. Currently only 3c503 uses it to indicate AUI xcvr.
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+ Make sprintf return number of characters written instead of a pointer
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to the last char written to be more consistent with standard C.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.14 (development)
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+ Thanks to Mark VandeWettering for the start of HomePNA (networking
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|
over phone lines) support for the AMD 79C978.
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+ Bug fixed in first32.c handling of (ip|nfsroot)=X where X is not rom.
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+ first32pm.linux works. No need to go into real mode to call first32pm
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|
and then it goes back to protected mode. Paves the way for extension
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|
routines to Etherboot. Implement program returns to loader flag in
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header field. Added option to mknbi to specify this.
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+ first32*.linux: Check tag 128 present and correct before appending tag
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129. Also tag 129 should be appended to parameters before substitutions.
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+ Merged cleanup_net into cleanup since they are always called together.
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+ Floppy booting doesn't need to be passed BOOTP_DATA_ADDR.
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+ Clean up variables associated with tagged image loading in osloader.c.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.15 (development)
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+ Duplicated 3c900 PCI IDs under 3c595 as some NICs apparently detect
|
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|
|
and work with the 3c595 driver but not the 3c90x driver, according to a
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|
|
report from Dirk Pfau. (The 3c90x series has two modes of operation,
|
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|
|
programmed I/O mode descended from the 3c509, good only for 10 Mb
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operation, and bus mastering mode, essential for 100 Mb operation. For
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network booting, either mode is acceptable.)
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+ Removed auto from kernel parameters; it's the default already.
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+ Use hardware timer instead of loop counter for transmit timeout in
|
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3c90x.c.
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+ Define a jmpbuf type for setjmp and longjmp. Trim size to 7 longs,
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|
|
that's all that's needed. Standardise the return values from longjmp:
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|
-2: loader error, -1: timeout or ESC, 0...: various meanings to
|
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|
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Etherboot main loader.
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+ Ansify function headers in bootmenu.c.
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+ Make _int10 return ax | (bx << 16) as result so that these can be
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|
accessed more efficiently in the following statements.
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+ Make handleansi take unsigned int instead of unsigned char as
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argument, otherwise extra code will be generated to handle this
|
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according to ANSI rules. (Quite significant saving of 55 bytes.) Rename
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it ansi_putc for clarity.
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+ Prefix getc, putc and ischar with console_ to make things clearer and
|
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|
to avoid confusion with the Unix getc, putc.
|
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+ Add menu as a target to mknbi. Started source code for menu extension.
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Successfully transferred control to menu at 0x10000 and back. ANSI
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colour controls work, at least. Return end needs more work.
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+ Started on ELF support in mknbi.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.16 (development)
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+ Added atftp 0.2 (ftp://ftp.mamalinux.com/pub/atftp/) to contrib/.
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Supposedly contains a tftpd that runs multithreaded, which may help
|
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|
|
people having problems with *inetd shutting down tftpds that spawn too
|
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fast.
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+ Added a few more Tulip entries to config.c and NIC, not all of them
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have been confirmed working.
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+ Got ELF format creation in mkelf-linux working now. At least one empty
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|
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section header is required to make a valid ELF file.
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+ Added code to support non-MULTIBOOT ELF when IMAGE_ELF is selected but
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IMAGE_MULTIBOOT is not. Booting from images created by mkelf-linux
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|
|
now works!
|
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+ TAGGED_IMAGE is now not always selected. It's just the fallback if
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none of TAGGED_IMAGE, AOUT_IMAGE or ELF_IMAGE is selected. Therefore you
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must explicitly select TAGGED_IMAGE if you want it, and you have
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selected AOUT_IMAGE or ELF_IMAGE. Startup banner line displays all
|
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image formats accepted.
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+ exit() in mknbi/start32.S should copy argument to %eax first.
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+ Images with 0xAA55 in bytes 510-511 are no longer accepted, which
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should reject invalid formats now, e.g. Linux kernel images, which have
|
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a boot sector in the first block. Strictly this does not conform to the
|
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|
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original netboot spec by Jamie Honan, which specifies that non-tagged,
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linear images starting from 0x10000 are allowed, but that format is
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pretty useless now. Any decent loading scheme needs a roadmap to the
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blocks in the downloaded file, which is what tagged, a.out, or ELF
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|
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images provide in the header. Q: What is config_buffer in main.c for?
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|
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Nothing else seems to use it. Is it a relic of non-tagged images?
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+ Clean up lots of obsolete prototypes in etherboot.h. Ansify lots of
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|
|
function headers in main.c. Make lots of functions and variables in
|
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|
|
main.c static. Make bootmenu.c:getoptvalue() static.
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+ Simple external menu program works!
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+ More documentation cleanup, notably editing the compile options to
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match what has been done.
|
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.17 (development)
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+ Marty Connor did it again! He found a long standing bug in the PnP ROM
|
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|
|
header which caused it not to be recognised by BIOSes. Now Etherboot ROM
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|
|
images are PnP compliant. I hacked makerom.c to fill in the offset of
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|
|
the ident string for the device string so that the BIOS can even print
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|
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out "Etherboot" and the device ident on boot up.
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+ Made demo menu program a bit more elaborate with timeout.
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+ Igor V. Kovalenko fixed the Winbond W89C840 driver to use the hardware
|
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|
|
timer instead of CPU counter loops. Now none of the Etherboot drivers
|
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rely on CPU speed dependent loops.
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+ Small fix to contrib/p910nd.c to not use getprotobyname which requires
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|
|
libnss_files.so, which may not be installed in all environments.
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+ Small change to contrib/mkffwnb to allow the user to choose ELF format
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(by editing one line) instead of tagged format.
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+ Patch to atftp-0.2 to make it accept a filename if the directory is a
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prefix of the filename. This is needed so that valid absolute pathnames
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will work. Patch sent to atftp authors.
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+ Added support for filtering out replies which do not include a Vendor
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Class Identifier of "Etherboot" in the Vendor Encapsulated Options. This
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can be used to select only the DHCP servers which we want to get
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addresses from and reject the rest. Select the compile option
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-DREQUIRE_VCI_ETHERBOOT. This requires ISC DHCPD 2 or 3 AFAIK. (It's
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not documented in DHCPD 2, but it works.) Other DHCP servers may support
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VEO. (It's a RFC2132 option.)
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+ Jim Thomas suggested a way, other than creating /fastboot, of
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preventing fsck from running on NFS root, ln -s /bin/true
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/sbin/fsck.nfs. Not verified but should work. Added to documentation.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.18 (development)
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+ Pavel Tkatchouk verifies that lance.c can handle PCnet-FAST III
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79c973. Added a new entry to lance.c and NIC. NIC entry not verified
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yet.
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+ Enhanced disnbi to decode ELF images too.
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+ Arrgh! There are old BIOSes that rely on the wrong order of the bytes
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in the device identifier in the PCIR and PnP structures. Wrote a Perl
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program swapdevids.pl to swap these bytes. Apply this to image file just
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before programming the EPROM.
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+ Marty Connor suggested that the specs state that for PnP ROMs the
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unsuccessful return from boot should be int 0x18 rather than int 0x19.
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Using int 0x19, selecting L for local device doesn't work. Fixes needed
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in both loader.S and start32.S (get lret to work properly, instead of
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doing an int 0x19 directly, involved saving ss and sp in real mode
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instead of in protected mode).
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+ Wrote a Perl program disrom.pl to display key structures of a ROM
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image.
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+ Added call to binmode() in various Perl utilities so they should work
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under other OSes.
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+ Added check in makerom.c to warn if 55 AA not found at start of image.
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It seems some people don't read the warning not to use the Linux
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supplied as86.
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+ It seems Z is a recent addition to pack/unpack formats in Perl and
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even a Perl as recent as 5.004 doesn't implement it. Change Z5 in
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mknbi.pl and TruncFD.pm to a5 since we only need to compare it against
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'FAT12' and 'FAT16'.
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+ Some errors found in osloader.c in the #ifdef IMAGE_MULTIBOOT
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sections. kernel should be KERNEL_BUF and union info should have
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unsigned short s[256];. Also kernel -> KERNEL_BUF for IMAGE_FREEBSD,
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obviously few FREEBSD users have tried compiling it.
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+ Explain in docs that .com and .(lz)lilo images can be generated and
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touch briefly on how to use them.
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+ Donald Christensen contributed translations of floppyload.S and
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loader.S to gas syntax. Currently they are in contrib/gassyntax/. They
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potentially allow us to throw away as86 and/or nasm and use GNU tools
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throughout, but I have to do some work on them: 1. I have to check what
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versions of gas accept the syntax, the 16-bit mode in gas was a recent
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enhancement; 2. I have to put back the #ifdef PCI_PNP_HEADER into
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loader.S and also bring it up to date to the recent patches.
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floppyload.S should be usable as is.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.19 (development)
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+ Donald Christensen completed the translation of loader.S and all the
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other .S files in the src directory that previously required as86 or
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nasm. No more futzing around with precompiled versions. Yipee!
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+ Luigi Rizzo contributed a slightly hacked FreeBSD loader that works on
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floppy or hard disk. See boot1a.s for details. Makefile rules edited.
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Targets renamed .dsk and .lzdsk to indicate they're not floppy specific
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now. Documentation updated. I note that the loader is smart enough to
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figure out exactly how many sectors have to be read.
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+ Renamed comload.S to comprefix.S which describes it better.
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+ mknbi tools split out into separate package for independent
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development.
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+ Use A32 instead of Z32 in unpack format in disrom.pl in case we
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encounter old Perl versions (< 5.005).
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+ Vendor Class Identifier string that's sent out is now of the form
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Etherboot-x.y (13 bytes long).
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+ Reduced size of ee_data in davicom.c to 32 bytes because we only need
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to access the MAC address in bytes 20:25.
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+ Changed type of formal arguments to pci.[ch] routines to unsigned int
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except for the last argument, because in ANSI C parameter passing is
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like assignment and extra dummy variables and code may need to be
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generated if the formal argument type is not the the same size as the
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actual argument that gets pushed on the stack. Not insignificant
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overhead, reduction from 1853 to 1727 bytes due to change. Changed devfn
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and bus members of struct pci_device to unsigned char to enforce limit
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on type. Surprisingly this reduced the size further to 1667 bytes.
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Probably the compilier could do more optimisations after the last
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change.
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+ Some drivers hardwired 0 for bus number in calls to pcibios_*
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functions. Changed to pci->bus, which is set in scan_bus. Only
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people with NICs not on bus 0 would have noticed.
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+ Found a couple more old-style pre-ANSI C function declarations. Turned
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on -ansi and -pedantic for kicks and fixed some non-ANSIness, e.g.
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// comment in #define, text after #endif, casting memcpy arguments to
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void *, using void * instead of char *. Some char declarations changed
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to unsigned char.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.20 (development)
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+ I changed my mind. I think the format in disrom.pl should be Z32,
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otherwise it displays binary characters after the valid part of the
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string. For people with Perl < 5.005, please upgrade.
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+ Moved RELOC down to 0x94000. Turned on USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER by default.
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Unless BOOTP_DATA_AT_0x93C00 is defined, use internal bootp strucutre.
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This gets Etherboot out of the area just below 0x10000 and the area from
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0x93C00-0x93FFF. DHCP packets can now be as large as the Ethernet
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payload. Later on, first32.c and the parameter area could expand a bit.
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In lance.c had to reduce RX_RING_SIZE (by reducing LANCE_LOG_RX_BUFFERS)
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from 16 to 4 to fit the driver. I'd like to hear feedback from lance
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|
users. Is 24kB of receive buffers really needed given that Etherboot
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uses stop-wait protocols?
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+ Doug Ambrisko sent in some patches for FreeBSD: a correction for one
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typo I missed and changes to make compilation under FreeBSD easier.
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+ Michael Sinz contributed patches to allow the FreeBSD loading code to
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load debugging symbols also.
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+ Marty Connor contributed a SiS900 driver. Also pointed out that if
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ASK_BOOT <= 0, the prompt and read shouldn't even happen. Conditional
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code reworked.
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+ Split documentation into user manual and developer manual. Added
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material.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.21 (development)
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+ Preston Wilson pointed out that ds.internic.net should be replaced by
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|
www.ietf.org in documentation URLs. Also RFC1090 should be RFC1094
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(NFS).
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+ Marty Connor pointed out some broken links due to the split in
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documentation. Also comments don't match code in lance.c for change just
|
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above. Also passed on a bug found by a user of rom-o-matic.net where
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tftp was not defined when ANSIESC was defined. My mistake, I made it a
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static function when it needs to be exported to ansiesc.c.
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+ Christoph Plattner found that the Etherboot startup messes up the
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|
flags while testing for a 386+. This doesn't affect Etherboot but it can
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cause the loaded operating system to crash. Fix: pushf before and popf
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after the CPU model testing.
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+ Jean-Jacques Michel contributed patches to the via-rhine.c driver to
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|
make it work for the VT6102 model as used on some DFE530-TX Rev.A3 NICs.
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+ Luigi Rizzo sent in a fixed boot1a.s that actually works on HDs now.
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+ Stefan Furtmayr sent in a list of URLs to TFTP servers for NT. Added
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to directory contrib/Diskless-From-NT.
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+ Paul Whittaker contributed a HOWTO in HTML format on booting with NT
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|
as the server. Added to directory contrib/Diskless-From-NT.
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+ CJ pointed out that the advertised message size is > 1500 bytes.
|
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Define MAX_BOOTP_EXTLEN so that the size of the structure matches the
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Ethernet payload size.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.22 (development)
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+ Reintroduce the old Via-Rhine PCI IDs into file NIC and give the
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corresponding ROM images -old suffixes, in case some people are using
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the old chips.
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+ Peter K<>gel contributed patches to the SiS900 driver to make it work
|
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|
|
for the SiS630e and SiS730s.
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+ Charles Dobson pointed out that when booting from a PnP BIOS, the code
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|
|
should not hook or restore the INT19H entry point. Put hooking code
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|
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inside #ifndef PCI_PNP_HEADER and changed entry point in PnP structure
|
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from start19h to blockmove.
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+ I have one report that gas 2.91 doesn't assemble loader.S because it
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can't handle all the 16-bit code. Since the benefits of using gas for
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all assembly code are great, and gas 2.95 has been out there for a long
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time, I regretfully say to affected users: upgrade your tools. Otherwise
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there may be a workaround by specifying the opcodes literally. I leave
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it to interested parties to try. If you do this, put in an #ifdef
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GAS291, naturally.
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+ Updated contrib/tftp-hpa to 0.16 from ftp.kernel.org.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.23 (development)
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+ Rename nepci entry in file NIC to rtl8029 to avoid giving the
|
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|
|
impression that nepci will work for all PCI NE2000 clones. Make the
|
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issue of PCI IDs in ROMs clearer in documentation, both in the
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configuration and troubleshooting sections.
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+ Tania Oka and Hyun-Joon Cha at about the same time found that
|
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|
|
implementing the rtl_disable() routine in rtl8139.c stopped random
|
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|
crashes in Linux later. It is important to disable the NIC after network
|
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loading.
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+ Implemented _disable() routine in w89c840, 3c90x and via-rhine drivers
|
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|
|
too. Don't know how to do it for epic100.
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+ p910nd-0.4 in contrib/ has -f device option now to specify other
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printer ports, e.g. USB.
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+ Robb Main found a bug with the #ifdef logic in loader.S. This may fix
|
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|
|
|
problems with BIOS detection.
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Released as Etherboot 4.7.24 (development)
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+ Paolo Marini sent in some code to make it work on his bare metal (no
|
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|
|
standard BIOS or peripherals) platform. This may be a useful starting
|
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|
|
point for some applications. See contrib/baremetal/.
|
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+ Eric W. Biederman contributed a Perl script in
|
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|
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contrib/award_plugin_roms/ to list flash BIOS plugin components.
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+ Marty Connor rewrote the Tulip driver to handle many more variants.
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+ For PCI ROMs loader.S can now detect if it's being called from a PnP
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BIOS and choose to hook INT19H if not.
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+ Pass struct *rom_info in priv_data to probe routine. This is to allow
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drivers to decide, based on the ROM address, which one of multiple
|
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|
|
instances of identical network adaptors to activate. Started on 3c509
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|
|
code to use this but need to understand 3c509 contention resolution
|
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|
mechanism first.
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+ Link src/lzhuf.c to contrib/compressor/lzhuf.c so that we don't need
|
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|
|
to refer to contrib/compressor/lzhuf.c anymore in Makefile.
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|
Released as Etherboot 4.7.25 (development)
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+ Minor documentation edits, merged in NIC entries for newly supported
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|
|
Tulip variants from Marty Connor.
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+ One last minute change, Robb Main suggested calling cs89x0_reset()
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|
|
from cs89x0_disable() to shutdown the hardware cleanly.
|
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+ Updated tftp-hpa to 0.17.
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+ Slight mod to lzhuf.c to make compression statistics report shorter.
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|
Released as Etherboot 5.0.0 (production)
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+ Donald Christensen found a small bug in osloader.c. Not all context
|
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|
|
was cleared on tftp restart which caused restarted tftp loads to fail.
|
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+ Correct a small error in setting %sp when not running at 0x9xxxx.
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|
Now relocation to 0x84000 works.
|
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+ Marty Connor added a generic Tulip entry and renamed the Macronix
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entries because PHP doesn't like strings starting with digits (for
|
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rom-o-matic.net).
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+ In loader.S, move code to save ROM segment and length to before jump
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to new segment, otherwise if MOVEROM is defined, then the ROM segment is
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always 0x8000. In etherboot.h, define an inline function to say if a ROM
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address is ok to boot from. Allow if < 0xC0000 or matches assigned ROM
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address of NIC.
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+ Thomas Kessler found a bug in vendortags.sgml re option-NNN tags in
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dhcpd.conf, the wrong syntax was presented. However on trying the
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option-NNN syntax documented in the dhcp-options man page, it was
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discovered that option option-NNN is no longer supported in the old way
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in recent versions of ISC dhcpd v3; a new syntax should be used. Added
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note to vendortags.sgml to warn users.
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+ Incorporated changes suggested by Hannu Martikka to #define
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DEFAULT_KERNELPATH in etherboot.h for rarp(), and display the TFTP
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server address before filename in Loading: message.
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+ Split off documentation into separate package in anticipation of
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production/development series split. Moved previous LOG to top level.
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Moved distribution section of index.html into separate web page so that
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index.html will be less ephemeral.
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.1 (production)
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+ Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out that --oformat should be used instead
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of -oformat as old ld accepts both while new ld requires --oformat.
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+ contrib/{tftp-hpa,atftp} are distributed separately from the
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distribution page to make them easy to update.
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+ Eric Biederman contributed many small changes in the code to improve
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the behaviour in exceptions and generally improve the code structure:
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1) Cleanup etherboot restarting. There is now only one place that needs
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to test for EMERGENCYBOOTDISK.
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2) Change pci.c as I have suggested. It is setup to scan every possible
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pci bus until it finds an etherboot card.
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3) Change osloader.c so that if an image that can return, but isn't
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supposed to it restarts etherboot with -2 instead of the returned value.
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4) Rewrites the delay logic so that we compute how long we should sleep,
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and then sleep the whole time in await_reply so in a congested networks
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we don't miss slow packets.
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5) divides load into load & load_configuration. This removes the need
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for the weird bootp_completed variable. And makes it a little more
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explicit what we are doing.
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6) add an interruptible_sleep function so that we can sleep and still
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process keystrokes.
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7) rewrites the restart logic:
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- renames jmp_bootmenu to restart_etherboot.
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- removes bootmenu (The function isn't)
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- It explicitly does an eth_reset & eth_probe pair to reinitialize
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the interface. This should help if someone has plugged the
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interface into a different switch since booting started.
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- moves ASK_BOOT and TRY_FLOPPY_FIRST into their own functions.
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- On every restart calls ask_boot and try_floppy_first. Allowing you
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to change your mind on how you want to boot after network booting
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starts.
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8) In cleanup calls both eth_disable (to disable the interface) &
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eth_reset to make certain the interface can be initialized from linux.
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(If nothing else this should cause more hidden bugs to show up).
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9) Restart etherboot when downloading a bootfile fails, instead of just
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looping trying to get that file. Allowing typos in dhcpd.conf to be
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corrected without having to reboot the client machine running etherboot.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.0 (development)
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+ All the changes from 5.1.0 carried over except calling eth_reset()
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from cleanup().
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+ Marty Connor, funded by Sicom System (http://www.sicompos.com/), wrote
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a driver for NICs based on the National Semiconductor DP83815, e.g.
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Netgear FA311/FA312. Also independently created by Jason McMullan just
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at the time Marty released his driver. Thanks for the effort Jason;
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great minds think alike. Both are based on Donald Becker's Linux driver,
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of course.
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+ Doug Ambrisko contributed a patch to take environment bindings for
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FreeBSD kernels from a BOOTP/DHCP option or config variable.
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+ Dax Kelson contributed an example of an ISC DHCP config file that uses
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Vendor Class Identifier to tailor the response to Etherboot clients.
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Also discovered that the Etherboot VCI should also be sent in the
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DHCPREQUEST message, in addition to the DHCPDISCOVER message. Note that
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the DHCP server must be set to non authorititative if you have an
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authoritative server running already or it will interfere with that
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one's operation.
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+ Peter Lister and Vasil Vasilev contributed changes to generate .pxe
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images bootable via PXE.
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+ Eric Biederman added code to 3c90x.c to enable the NIC: set up
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busmastering and set the latency timer in case the NIC is not already
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set correctly, and fixed a couple of related bugs in eepro100.c.
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Verified that the 3c90x driver works for the 3c980.
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+ Moved strncmp from osdep.h to linux-asm-string.h. Use the general
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version using string ops, not the deprecated 486 version (what was I
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thinking). Also added strlen, needed for FreeBSD patch above.
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+ Thanks to gcc 3.0, found and corrected a couple of C constructs of
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undefined semantics in rtl8139.c and lance.c of the form: i = ++i &
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MASK;
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+ In Config/CFLAGS32: changed -m386 to prefered form, -mcpu=i386,
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changed -O2 to -Os, and added -ffreestanding. These changes allow
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warning-free compilation under gcc 3.0. Only mimimal testing has been
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done with gcc 3.0 compiled binaries, we hope there are no problems but
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don't throw away your gcc 2.9.5 yet.
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+ Added an .org 0 to loader.S just before _start. May or may not fix
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alleged assembly problem with gas 2.11.
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+ Cosmetic change: in boot1a.s replaced "loaded" with "done\r\n" so that
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Etherboot messages start at beginning of line.
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+ More improvements to contrib/mkffwnb.
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.2 (production)
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+ Added missing rules in genrules.pl for .pxe and .lzpxe images.
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+ Peter Lister unified pxeloader.S into loader.S. pxeloader.S not
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required now. Also fixed .lzpxe.
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+ Added missing int i; declaration in try_floppy_first().
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+ Load %edx with dev just before calling xstart in floppy.c:bootdisk()
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so that %dl will have device number, just like entry from BIOS.
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+ Merged in Eric Biederman's patches to build .ebi images that run under
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LinuxBIOS. To make an image, edit Config to enable the EBI options (and
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disable TAGGED_IMAGE), then make bin32/driver.ebi, where driver is the
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name of a supported PCI NIC.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.1 (development)
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+ The rotating bar progress display has been replaced by a sequence of
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dots, one for each transmitted packet. This is kinder to dumb displays,
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e.g. serial terminals, and gives a better feel for how the loading is
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going. If you want the rotating bar, use -DBAR_PROGRESS.
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+ In loader.S change .fill 0x18-(.-_start) to .org 0x18. Might help
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people having errors assembling it.
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+ Do Jong Gwan found a 3Com 980 with PCI ID 0x9805. Added to config.c
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and NIC. Added for good measure 0x7646 which is listed as 3CSOHO100-TX
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in Linux kernel 3c59x.c.
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+ Add a rule to the Makefile to check for gcc 2.96, which is buggy, and
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tell the user to use kgcc instead if found.
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+ Till Straumann added long-needed code to warn when fragmented packets
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seen (encountered on a wireless link) and to do UDP packet checksumming.
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+ A trio of patches from Klaus Espenlaub, to fix a lance ring pointer
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error in lance.c, to fix a format error in the multiboot call in
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osloader.c and a patch to enable powersaving while waiting (good for
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compute clusters and VMware), this one requiring the new option
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-DPOWERSAVE in compiles.
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+ While we are adding compile options, -DFLOPPY has been renamed to
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-DCAN_BOOT_DISK as FLOPPY has been a misnomer ever since the ability to
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boot /dev/hdX and /dev/sdX was added.
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+ Spurred by correspondence from Till Straumann and Klaus Espenlaub,
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hacked printf to not require a buffer. Now printf output can be
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arbitrarily long as it no longer needs a buffer to assemble the
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characters before sending to putchar; it outputs on the spot for
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non-format chars and %s items, and at the end of the item for non-%s
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items.
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+ DRIVER AND EXTENSION WRITERS NOTE! (s)printf formats have been changed
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to be a subset of those in glibc to reduce confusion. The changes are %x
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-> %hX, %b -> %hhX, and %I -> %@. Lower case x formats are also
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available now. The only variances from glibc are %@ for dotted quad IP
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addresses (formerly %I; %I is now used), %! for 6 byte Ethernet
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addresses, and that printf returns void. Thanks to Klaus Espenlaub for
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assistance on this, after adding the %! format, he cleaned up all of the
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Ethernet address display code in the drivers.
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+ More cleanup patches from Klaus Espenlaub (he's better than lint;
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people who have used Bell Labs Unix will know what lint is). Changes
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noted here for posterity.
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3c509.c: consistent non-use of # modifier for debugging output
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3c595.c: consistent non-use of # modifier for debugging output
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3c90x.c: use optimal %x variant, PCI bus/function numbers are always small
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Config: Replace a TAB by two spaces inside the descriptions
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eepro100.c: 6->ETH_ALEN, PCI bus/function numbers are always small
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floppy.c: optimal %x variant
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genrules.pl: consistent use of TAB characters
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i82586.c: the ENET address printing patch for the EXOS205 got lost somehow....
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main.c: cleanup of the UDP_CHECKSUM comment some editor messed up, make the
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assembly fragment use the normal formatting, fix the register assignment
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specification for the %bx register to use the "b" constraint instead of
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"bx" - the x makes no sense...
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natsemi.c: %X case fix...
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ns8390.c: optimal %x variant
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pci.c: fix bad Linux port (most messages truncated the hex values)
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sis900.c: a value read with inl() should probably(!) be printed with %X
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start32.S: move around the #endifs a little
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timer.c: fix space/tab characters
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via-rhine.c: all values "printed" inside the comments are 32 bit integers
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wd89c840.c: PCI bus/function numbers are always small
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.3 (production)
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+ New version of contrib/Diskless-From-NT/furtmayer.html. I mangled the
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previous version by forgetting to extract with metamail so it was still
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quotable-printable encoded.
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+ Renamed do_printf to vsprintf because that's the standard function it
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has the same signature as.
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+ More patches from Klaus Espenlaub. In his own words:
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The patch to add UDP checksums for transmitted packets is attached.
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Just don't be surprised if some packet sniffer tells you that the
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checksum for the NFS_LOOKUP packets are wrong and that the filename is
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truncated. It's a bug in the sniffer, not in Etherboot.
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Oh, and the small change in udpchksum() almost makes up for the
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increased code size.
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I also rewrote the NFS code to use pointers instead of array accesses.
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This reduced the code size by 124 bytes. Patch attached.
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The last patch in this mail fixes misc things: a typo in misc.c
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(DOT_PROGRESS instead of BAR_PROGRESS), and twiddle() is only called if
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the packet type is IP. This makes the output nicer - the dots are also
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printed in some non-approriate places for ARP reply packets. The
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important packets are IP anyway.
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+ The option BOOTP_DATA_AT_0x93C00 is deprecated, in preparation for
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expanding the parameter area and the first32.c area.
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+ Marty Connor found a typo in index.html, should be: Etherboot can work
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with..., not Ethernet can work with... Ooops.
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+ Eric Biederman tried a patch of Preston Wilson's and discovered that
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DI should be prefixed by ES in the test for a PnP BIOS in loader.S to be
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sure. Furthermore some BIOSes are not fully compliant and we need an
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#ifndef PNP_BUT_NOT_BBS_COMPLIANT to work around that.
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+ Oops, there's no entry in config.c for the DFE530TX+ even though
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there's one in NIC.
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.4 (production)
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+ Fixed a struct alignment (8-byte constraint) problem in lance.c caused
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by the introduction of the rx_idx field by moving rx_idx to the end of
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the struct. Found by Rizsanyi Zsolt. Klaus Espenlaub also suggested
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increasing all the Rx buffers by 4 bytes because of the checksum stored
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at the end.
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+ Fred Gray contributed changes in tulip.c to check for a duplex
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connection and to modify the controller register if so. Marty fixed an
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unassigned to "negotiated" variable.
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+ Mark G of Inprimis Technologies contributed another FA311 (National
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Semiconductor DP83815) driver, also based on the Donald Becker Linux
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driver.
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+ Armin Schindler contributed a patch to allow booting LynxOS KDI
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images.
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+ Moved code to set PCI busmastering and reasonable latency to a routine
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in pci.c and added calls to this routine from all PCI drivers.
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+ New files for contrib/mkffwnb for version 1.9.11 and 1.9.16.
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+ Removed BOOTP_DATA_AT_0x93Cxx option.
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+ Convert epic100 driver to use hardware timer for transmit timeout and
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remove polling loop from receive routine.
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+ Steve Tilden pointed out that BOOT_INT18H is a LCONFIG option, not a
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CFLAGS32 option. Put note under option documentation and also added a
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commented-out example in Config. Steve also contributed a patch<63> in
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contrib/auto-default, which autoboots from the next device if a disk is
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detected.
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+ PNP_BUT_NOT_BBS_COMPLIANT option renamed to BBS_BUT_NOT_PNP_COMPLIANT.
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+ Merged in Vasil Vasilev's changes to loader.S to release memory taken
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by PXE properly.
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+ E820 memory detection routines added by Eric Biederman. May increase
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size of bss segment and push large drivers, e.g. Tulip, nearer to limit,
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please report.
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+ Default to -DCONGESTED in Config, may help on busy networks.
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+ Add Holtek HT80232 to list of NE2000 PCI clones.
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+ Remove prohibition on loading < 0x10000 in ELF images since by default
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drivers don't use memory < 0x10000 any more, with 48kB to run in.
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+ Put define of ETH_MAX_MTU in etherboot.h inside #ifndef so that it can
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be overriden from Makefile.
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+ Gustavo Junior Alves added .cvsignore files for src/bin and src/bin32.
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+ Short note on how to make tomsrtbt netbootable in contrib/tomsrtbt.
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This release is dedicated to the memory of my mother (July 1917 -
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November 2001) [Ken Yap].
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.5 (production)
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+ Changes to enable fa311too driver which were overlooked in 5.0.5.
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+ Chien-Yu Chen sent in patches to support the SiS630ET. Independently,
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Doug Ambrisko made the same changes. Marty Connor tidied the patches.
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+ In misc.c, when enabling/disabling Gate A20, call int 0x15 with
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ax=0x240x to do handling first, and if that is not supported, fall back
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to using the keyboard controller. Hopefully this will solve Gate A20
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problems for recent BIOSes.
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+ Add missing entry to config.c for the Macronix 98713 (device ID
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0x512). But latest report is that it doesn't transmit. Anybody wanna
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debug?
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+ Omit test for pointer to $PnP string for ISA NIC images, it may
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trigger false recognition of a PnP ROM. Just use legacy mode.
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+ Merged in Christopher Li's Intel E1000 gigabit Ethernet driver.
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+ RISKO Gergely found that the ADMTek Comet 983 works with the tulip
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driver if you provide the right PCI IDs.
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+ Rohit Jalan contributed patches to support FreeBSD booting via PXE.
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(genrules.pl needed hacking to make it ignore the system includes in
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osdep.h.) Anybody want to see if it can be made to support pxelinux?
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[Glanced at it and I think general PXE support may be hard, you may need
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an Etherboot specific secondary loader. - Ken]
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+ Merged in Eric Biederman's patches to allow trying all PCI devices.
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+ From Eric Biederman: A small patch to allow the serial port parameters
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to be unchanged at activation. Major changes to start32.S to merge
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LinuxBIOS support. New files for LinuxBIOS support. PCBIOS specific
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functions split out into pcbios.S. Massive clean up of PCI subsystem
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logic.
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+ Jean-Jacques Michel sent in a fix for via-rhine.c to make sure the
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transmit is finished before returning from the _transmit routine.
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Also found a bug in gcc 3.0.3 that affected rtl8139.c. Moving the
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assignment to nstype in _transmit two lines up avoids it.
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+ Based on the experience of Yedidyah Bar-David, in eepro100.c,
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increased udelay around line 533 after getting MAC address to
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udelay(10000).
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+ Added PCI IDs for RTL8129, which can use the rtl8139 driver.
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+ Added PCI IDs for 3Com905 with device ID 0x9058. Confirmed working by
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Fabio Papa.
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+ Added PCI IDs for D-Link 528, which is a PCI NE2000 clone.
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+ Philip R. Auld found a block number rollover bug due to promotion to
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signed in main.c.
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+ Luigi Rizzo sent in a patch to nfs.c to implement an adaptive timeout.
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+ New config files for floppyfw-1.9.19 in contrib/mkffwnb/.
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+ Glenn McKechnie contributed a Perl script for making a netbootable
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image from the Dachstein LRP firewall distribution floppy. It's in
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contrib/mklrpnb/
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+ At the request of Greg Beeley, who got irate mail from kernel NIC
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developers, put in a warning in the Makefile about the 3c90x XCVR
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options which may affect later operation with the Linux driver. For you
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tinkerers out there, if you don't know what you're doing, please read
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3c90x.txt over and over again until you understand what those options
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do. If you don't understand, please ask on the Etherboot mailing list.
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And don't complain to the kernel developers, it's nothing to do with
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them. If you must change the XCVR options on a board, please document it
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prominently on the board so that those who come after you won't
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encounter strange behaviour and complain to the kernel developers.
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Greg also supplied a patch to 3c90x.c to print a warning message.
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.6 (production)
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+ Andrew Bettison sent in a patch and the explanation: Here's a patch
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for some changes I made to Etherboot-5.0.6 because it didn't work with a
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SMC EtherEZ in an old PCI/ISA bybrid bus system. The ISA shared memory
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isn't accessible on many such systems, so the only way to do I/O to the
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card is in Programmed I/O mode. I studied the Linux 2.2.19 driver
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(drivers/net/smc-ultra.c) and hacked what I figured was equivalent code
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into src/ns8390.c, and it eventually worked. All my new code is enabled
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with -DWD-790_PIO.
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+ Small error in the ADMTEK Comet 983 IDs fixed.
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+ Michael Rendell sent in patches for 3c90x.c to get the MAC address
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from location 10 of the EEPROM onwards, like the Linux driver does. Some
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905s have the MAC address at both 0 and 10 which is why it worked for
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some boards.
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+ Michael Brown sent in drivers for 3 wireless NICs based in the prism2
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chipset, and a small patch to rtl8139.c to abort detection on no link.
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+ Rewrote makerom.c in Perl to give makerom.pl.
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+ Rewrite genrules.pl to parse a new NIC format.
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+ Timothy Legge contributed a 3c515 driver. Requires a ISA PnP BIOS.
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+ Modified call to int15h/e801 in pcbios.S to check for return values in
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CX, DX in case BIOS doesn't return them in AX, BX.
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+ Richard Chan sent in PCI IDs for another Intel EEPRO100 product.
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Omigawd will they ever run out of EEPRO100 model numbers. :-)
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+ Changed location of setup header from 0x97e000 to 0x93e000 in
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mkQNXnbi.c for recent Etherboot versions.
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+ Renamed membase to addr1 to reflect its lack of predefined meaning in
|
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PCI config space. Should do similar to ioaddr, but too much work.
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+ Samuel Clememts found another Intel EEPRO100 device ID, 0x1039.
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+ Updated instructions in contrib/tomsrtbt for latest 2.0.103 release.
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+ Folded in changes by Michael Brown to send PCI and ISA IDs to the
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server and to encapsulate Etherboot specific options. Changed scheme to
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send fixed binary structure instead of variable length string.
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+ Bug in sis900.c, wrongly classifies revisions 0x81 and 0x82 because
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first test catches too many revisions. Changed to match the Linux
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driver.
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+ Fotis Andritsopoulos found a small bug in cs89x0.h, TX_AFTER_ALL
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should be 0x0C0.
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+ Great idea by Eric Biederman. Ignore DHCP offers with zero server
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IP, or null filename unless DEFAULT_BOOTFILE is defined. This will
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ignore most Windows DHCP servers.
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+ Patrik Weiskircher sent in a patch for rtl8139.c to bring it up to
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date with the Linux driver.
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Released as Etherboot 5.0.7 (production)
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+ Multicast support and LOTS of other changes by Eric Biederman.
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+ Builtin menuing has been removed.
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+ Patches for FreeBSD by Doug Ambrisko.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.2 (development)
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+ Fix syntax errors in nfs.c.
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+ Patch for tagged image loading by Miles Nordin.
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+ Patches for new eepr100 variant by Georg Baum.
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+ Fixes for typos by Adam Sulmicki.
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+ Fixes by Eric.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.3 (development)
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+ Eric rearranged files for multiple platforms, including Itanium.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.4 (development)
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+ Lots of fixes to drivers, see CVS for details.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.5 (development)
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+ Eric added support for the AMD Hammer.
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+ Geert Stappers found a VIA6105 (via-rhine.c) with id 0x3106.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.6 (development)
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+ Broadcomm TG3 support by Eric Biederman.
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+ Georg Baum found that the start16.S prefix was missing from the LILO
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and PXE images, those formats were broken. He also migrated the PCI IDs
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into the driver files. Those formats should work again.
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+ Reworked genrules.pl. Family declarations now in here document inside
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genrules.pl. NIC is now an output file, for use by rom-o-matic.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.7 (development)
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+ Fixed various syntax errors that made the source not compile with some
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configurations.
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+ Hacked boot1a.s to take count of number of blocks to boot from book
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block itself in new scheme.
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+ Dave Airlie found a patch for an old bug in eepro100 driver on Linux
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that applies to Etherboot driver too.
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+ Add use bytes; pragma to Perl scripts to avoid problems with UTF-8
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handling of input data.
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+ Replace boot1a.s with floppyload.S which has no problems loading large
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binaries. Lose the ability to boot from disk partition. Use LILO or
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something similar.
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+ Morten Kristiansen sent in a patch to handle another variant of the
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SiS 900.
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+ Fix for eepro100 timing problem by Georg Baum.
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+ Add use bytes; to Eric's Perl scripts too.
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+ Additional fix to mask interrupts after PortPartialReset by Georg
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Baum that might help with booting DOS.
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+ Sundance driver contributed by Timothy Legge.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.8 (development)
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+ Fix for correct SMC8416 detection.
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+ Alignment bug fix for the 3c90x driver contributed by Neil Newell.
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+ Robb Main found a bug in appending the MACHINE_INFO to the DHCP request.
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+ SONE Takeshi fixed the Multiboot structure.
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+ Patch from Axel Dittrich to allow timeout to be changed to a fixed
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value for peer-to-peer setups where the exponential backoff is not
|
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suitable.
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+ Tlan driver contributed by Timothy Legge.
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+ Support for symlinks on NFS mounts by Anselm Martin Hoffmeister.
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+ Experimental safe booting code by Anselm Martin Hoffmeister.
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+ Run Etherboot in an even megabyte so that unsetting A20 won't kill it.
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Experimental UNDI driver by Michael Brown.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.9 (5.2 release candidate 1)
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+ 82562EZ ID provided by Samuel Clements.
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+ Rename Local option as Quit, because that's what it really is.
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+ Should prepend start16.bin to .com images, they didn't work and nobody
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noticed.
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+ PM stack was getting clobbered by zeroing of BSS, move to own segment
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in etherboot.lds. Move %ss out of the way of Etherboot in comprefix.S.
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Now Q works from .zrom and sort of from .com (DOS is odd after return).
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+ Make ASK_PROMPT reflect the device options available.
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+ Removed many outdated comments and updated others.
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Released as Etherboot 5.1.10 (5.2 release candidate 2)
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+ Make floppyload.S and liloprefix.S call instead of jmp to the image so
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that the return calls int 0x19, which is somewhat better than
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hyperspace.
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+ Put http://etherboot.org in prompt and ID string.
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Released as Etherboot 5.2.0 (production)
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+ Print F? if no filename in DHCP offer.
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+ Make lance.c throw a compile error if -DRELOCATE is used.
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+ pcnet32 driver ported by Timothy Legge.
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+ Reinstate boot1a.s in arch/i386/prefix. The binary may have some uses;
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it boots with vmware although the image fails later in the emulation.
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Released as Etherboot 5.2.1 (production)
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CVSed as Etherboot 5.3 (development)
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+ Break out etherboot.h into multiple files along protocol lines.
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+ Georg Baum's conversion of a more recent version of the Linux e1000
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driver.
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+ Add mini-slamd to contrib/, it was missed during 5.2 release.
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+ Timothy Legge enabled multicast for a bunch of drivers. Tested with
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mini-slamd.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.0 (development)
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+ Timothy Legge rewrite proto_tftm.c, got multicast working with atftp
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and enabled multicast for the Tulip.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.1 (development)
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+ G<>nter Knauf sent in a new version of romid that handles the new
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and old IDENT format.
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+ Cai Qiang fixed the WINCE loader. It needs to handle > 512 byte packets
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and also the buffer has to be static. Also submitted a driver for VGA
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which can be activated by CONSOLE_DIRECT_VGA.
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+ Improved tg3 driver by Eric Biederman. New define in etherboot.h:
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VALID_LINK_TIMEOUT.
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+ Timothy Legge and I fixed up various ISA drivers to be less noisy
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when probing, from information provided by Paolo Salvan, so that the
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super etherboot image is more useful.
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+ Proof of concept of a TFTP to HTTP proxy in contrib/t2hproxy/.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.2 (development)
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+ Multicast support for the ns8390 (NE, WD, etc) added by Timothy Legge.
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+ Provide config access to alternate DHCP/BOOTP ports. The macro
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ALTERNATE_DHCP_PORTS_1067_1068 switches to ports 1067 and 1068.
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+ UNDI driver by Michael Brown.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.3 (development)
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+ More UNDI improvements by Michael Brown.
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+ Michael Brown pointed out error in ASK_BOOT behaviour. Make it match
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documentation. < 0 or undefined means no prompt, = 0 means wait
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forever, > 0 means wait that many seconds.
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+ Start of PCMCIA subsystem by Anselm Martin Hoffmeister.
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+ Port to Hyperstone architecture (big-endian) by Yannis Mitsos and
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George Thanos at NTUA, Greece.
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+ Timothy Legge got the epic100 driver working again, was not working
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when 5.2 released. Also implemented multicasting. Also tentatively
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fixed the tg3 driver.
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+ Use Perl script to make .z?lilo images.
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+ Added an .iso Makefile rule. This requires newer BIOSes as it
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uses no floppy emulation mode.
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+ Guard Kuo sent in a patch for the via-rhine driver not being
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reset properly, Timothy Legge improved it based in the Linux driver.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.4 (development)
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+ David D. Smith, with help from Georg Baum, sent in a patch for the
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eepro100 driver which might help unjam the NIC when the receiver has
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suspended reception.
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+ Timothy Legge and Eric Biederman fixed a bug in the tg3 driver which
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caused some models to not receive DHCP replies.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.5 (development)
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+ Timothy Legge ported the Linux Realtek 8169 driver.
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+ Michael Brown removed irritating A20 status change messages.
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+ Sis900, w89c840 and tg3 drivers fixed by Timothy Legge. R8169 driver
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needs family entry in genrules.pl.
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+ Revert to normal way of assigning string to DEFAULT_BOOTFILE as
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tricky stringify macro falls foul of C++ // comments in gcc 3.x.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.6 (development)
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+ Don't include ISA .o files for etherboot-pci.
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+ Doug Ambrisko fixed bugs in the FreeBSD loader.
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+ Anders Nystrom provided a tiny via-rhine patch
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+ Introduce new define DEFAULT_PROTO_NFS for those who were used to
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using DOWNLOAD_PROTO_NFS in 5.0 for NFS booting.
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+ Reverse sort PCI drivers so that 3c90x is tried ahead of 3c595.
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+ Updated e1000 driver by Georg Baum.
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+ New PCI IDs for 3c90x and tulip drivers. Typos in 3c90x and tg3
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drivers corrected.
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+ Georg Baum fixed the 3c503
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+ Fixed Typos which caused compiling with RARP_NOT_BOOTP to fail
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+ Fixed IMAGE_FREEBSD bugs
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+ Cleanup of driver output (pcnet32, r8169, sundance, tlan)
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+ Minor updates to the Config file comments
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+ arch/i386/prefix/boot1a.S is no longer maintained
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+ Added make rule for a floppy emulation ISO boot image
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+ Timothy Legge updated proto_tftm to make it easier to maintain and
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fix some issues
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+ Timothy Legge contributed a forcedeth driver for the NVidia Force
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NIC.
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+ Timothy Legge contributed a ns83820 driver for National
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Semiconductor 83820 based NICS
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+ Ken Yap added support for creating .liso output type which is an iso
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image with legacy floppy support
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+ Michael Brown improved memory allocation, 16/32 mode swapping, and
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did various code cleanups
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+ Michael Brown added High-Level PXE API support (pxelinux) to Etherboot
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.7 (development)
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+ Timothy Legge Fixed an issue in the e1000 driver with 82544 and
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newer devices that support port I/O. Enabled port io for the reset.
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Without the patch the e1000 could not reliably boot Linux on some
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cards. Thanks to James Pearson, Georg Baum and Marty Connor for
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help resolving this issue.
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+ Michael Brown added lots of PXE code to complete implementation. He
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also did a warnings purge of the core.
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+ Marty Connor did warnings purge of the network drivers.
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+ Anselm Martin Hoffmeister contributed DNS resolution code.
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+ Lots of driver PXEifications and cleanups from Timothy Legge and
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Marty Connor
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+ Makefile and genrules fixes from Michael Brown and Marty Connor
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+ BPBATCH workaround from Timothy Legge and Michael Brown
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+ Timothy Legge improved image format detection logic.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.8 (development)
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+ Update to lance.c chip_table from Helge Wagner
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+ Fixes to attributes to prevent gcc from optimising away seemingly
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unused functions and variables that are actually referenced from asm
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or in the linking stage. (Ken Yap)
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+ Removed non-relocation support, relocation is now always active.
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Removed lance.c driver as this will not work with relocation. 32-bit
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Lance NIC users should use pcnet32. (Ken Yap)
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+ Migrated SAFEBOOT to a patch set. This proof-of-concept code is
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incomplete and needs more work before becoming mainstream. (Ken Yap)
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.9 (development)
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+ Patch from Tim Fletcher for another eepro100 model.
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+ Patch from Jeremy Jackson to make DNS query recursive and fix sign and
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casting issues in dns_resover.c.
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+ Paolo Salvan experimented with using isolinux for non-emulation
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images and contributed the first cut at the code for geniso.
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+ Fix for relocation issue with prism2_pci driver
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+ Small patch to support 3Com tulip version from Jacek Kalinski
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+ Dag Lem provided a new pci_id for the eepro100 Intel "82801EB/ER
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(ICH5/ICH5R)"
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+ Small patch to support 3Com tulip version from Jacek Kalinski
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+ Yinghai Lu contributed a large patch to add filo, bText and usb
|
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|
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support:
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btext console: In LinuxBIOS, for the VGA, we only can
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enable display chipframe buffer and write char to framebuffer
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to get output in CRT.
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FILO: originally it is standalone boot program and
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author is TakeshiSone.
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Boot from SATA disk.
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Boot from USB disk (OHCI and UHCI). USB boot is from Steven
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James 's baremetal in LinuxBIOS, moved to FILO and added the
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OHCI support to it
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+ armnommu arch support by Tobias Lorenz.
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+ Driver updates/cleanup: rtl8139, sis900, tlan
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+ Updates to via-rhine based on input from Guard Kuo from Via Networking
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Technologies, Inc
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+ Update p910nd (port 9100+n printer daemon) to latest version
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+ Fixed some bugs to enable compilation for gcc 3.4.x.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.10 aka 5.4RC1 (development)
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+ Changes to segment scheme to make large compressed images work.
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+ .zelf images can be built now but still don't run properly. .zrom
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images may be broken.
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+ Start of a .exe prefix which should allow payloads > 64kB.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.11 aka 5.4RC2 (development)
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+ Left out in last release's LOG: accepted patch from Jan Kiszka
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fixing default TFTP blocksize.
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+ Fixed .z?rom image generation, they work now.
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+ Patch from Jan Kiszka for for multiple receive buffers in eepro100
|
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driver.
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+ Fixed 961507 Not so nice 'F?' message when no file name received
|
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+ Small fixes to e1000 and via-rhine drivers.
|
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+ New mtd80x.c driver contributed by Erdem Guven
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+ New dmfe.c driver for Davicom based cards contributed by Timothy Legge
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+ Added new definitions of site DHCP options in preparation for 5.4.
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+ Removed etherboot(-pci)?.* rule because there are too many drivers and
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the image will no longer fit in memory. I don't want to choose a subset
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of drivers as everybody will have different preferences. So I'm going to
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piss off everybody equally by deleting the rule. Use the multiple driver
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rule (driver1--driver2--...) and select your own subset of drivers.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.12 aka 5.4RC3 (development)
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+ Changes to Makefile.main and Config to collect FILO objects in
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filolib.a. This allows FILO to be excluded from compilation and linking
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with one Makefile define.
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+ Reverse site DHCP option changes, should apply for official
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assignment.
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+ RIS filename patch which seems to work for many people.
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+ Thanks to the help of Daniel Nilsson, tracked down and fixed a bug
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where the tftp code did not fall back to 512 byte blocks when an OACK
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was NOT received.
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+ Removed dead code related to CAN_BOOT_DISK.
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+ Clarified that BOOT_DISK and BOOT_FLOPPY options only work with
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LinuxBIOS and are not replacements for PCBIOS functions.
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+ Renamed EMERGENCYDISKBOOT to EXIT_IF_NO_OFFER.
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+ Builtin menuing DHCP options are gone.
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+ Paolo Salvan submitted changes to arch/i386/Makefile to make .com
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+ Eric Biedermann made .*elf images work again and cleaned up the build
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procedure in the process. The hardwired virtual RELOCADDR is no more,
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the virtual base is 0. He also added code to display which protocols are
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compiled into the image.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.13 aka 5.4RC4 (development)
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+ Lots of fixes by Eric Biederman. Symbols for protected mode segment
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and prefix segments separated. Multiple ASM statements combined to
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ensure compiler keeps them intact. Allocate real mode stack if none in
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use. Protect low memory interrupt vectors. Makefile rules for various
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prefixes factored. Dynamic relocatable image support.
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+ Fixes by Michael Brown. Cleanup of PXE and UNDI code.
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+ Patch to Tulip driver for missing PCI ID.
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+ Fixes to genrules.pl by Kenneth Sumrall.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.14 aka 5.4RC5 (development)
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+ Small ARMNOMMU architecture fixes by Toby Lorenz.
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+ Patch to Tulip driver for additional PCI ID by Ramesh Chander.
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+ Proxy DHCP support, catrom.pl script, flat real mode support, and
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e1000 fixes by Michael Brown.
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+ New PHY support for tg3.c by Timothy Legge.
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+ FS Protocol support by Radim Kolar.
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+ FILO config changes by YHLu.
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+ Support for compilation on AMD64 for i386. makerom.pl fixed not to
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change product string pointer if one already exists.
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Released as Etherboot 5.3.15 aka 5.4RC6 (development)
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+ Minor additions and amendments to acknowledgements.
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+ Added Doug Ambrisko's FreeBSD patch to freebsd_loader.c. Doesn't
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hurt FreeBSD 4 and seems to help FreeBSD 5 get further in booting.
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Should not affect other image types since it modifies only one file.
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The part of the patch relating to osloader.c was already present.
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Released as Etherboot 5.4.0 (production)
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+ Added PCI ID for Fujistu Siemens Futro C200 by Martin Vogt
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+ Liu Tao contributed a driver for the AMD8111 based on the Linux
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driver
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+ Till Straumann patch for Sporadic eepro(10) RX problems after reboot
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+ Hermann Gausterer sent a patch to support additional Broadcom PHYs
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2005-05-19 17:02:03 +00:00
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+ Timothy Legge updated the forcedeth driver to the latest Linux version
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2.6.10 (untested and broken)
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+ YhLu fixed the updated forcedeth driver so that it worked and confirmed
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that it supports the Gigabit nVidia NICs
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+ Timothy Legge fixed relocation issues with the eepro driver
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+ Jan Kiszka provided a patch for the smc9000 for missing phy-setup
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