[Etherboot-users] Etherboot 5.4.1 (production) released

[Marty C. <md...@et...>]

I have released Etherboot 5.4.1 at:

     http://www.etherboot.org/

The release notes are at:

     http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=355101

The ChangeLOG is at:

     http://www.etherboot.org/LOG

MD5 sums:

     9d8666f32ca259a045130487e382f88b  etherboot-5.4.1.tar.bz2
     b31b418b88086f69ddc4c886a08c8cfd  etherboot-5.4.1.tar.gz

Notes:

This production release of Etherboot adds a few features, and support
for several new NICs and variations.  Many thanks to all of the  
contributors who
made these improvements possible.

As always, we ask people to test this release.  Especially those who  
sent in
bug reports on 5.4.0.  Hopefully we have fixed most of the problems,  
and added
features and support that will be helpful to you.

I have simultaneously updated http://rom-o-matic.net/ with 5.4.1 to  
make it
easy to try out the latest release.

Please post questions, problems, general comments to the Etherboot- 
Users list,
or to the Etherboot-Developers list, if it seems technically  
appropriate.

It is a great pleasure to serve the FOSS community.

Thanks for all your help and support!

Marty

Partial ChangeLog:
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Changes since 5.4.0:

+ Added PCI ID for Fujistu Siemens Futro C200 by Martin Vogt

+ Liu Tao contributed a driver for the AMD8111 based on the Linux
   driver

+ Till Straumann patch for Sporadic eepro(10)  RX problems after reboot

+ Hermann Gausterer sent a patch to support additional Broadcom PHYs

+ Timothy Legge updated the forcedeth driver to the latest Linux version
   2.6.10 (untested and broken)

+ YhLu fixed the updated forcedeth driver so that it worked and  
confirmed
   that it supports the Gigabit nVidia NICs

+ Timothy Legge fixed relocation issues with the eepro driver

+ Jan Kiszka provided a patch for the smc9000 for missing phy-setup

+ Timothy Legge fixed TX Underrun on centaur-p models of tulip that
   caused the card to stall

+ Krzysztof Lichota provided a patch to pcnet32 that fixed a long  
standing
   issue on certain models of HP Vectra

+ Jorge L. deLyra contributed an improved version of contrib/ 
3c90xutil/cromutil.c
   which enables programming of flash chips on various 3COM 3C905 cards.

+ Marcel Ritter contributed a patch to r8169.c to recognize USR and D- 
Link
   cards that use rtl8169 chips

+ Per Dalgas Jakobsen contributed a patch to allow booting directly from
   a hard disk partition

+ Patrik Reali contributed a network driver patch to 3c90x.c to  
enable support
   for 3C556 "hurricane" cards

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    Name: Marty Connor
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