[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.6.12 released

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

Hmm, the patch file is > 200kB now, so I'd better kick this one out the
door. Besides what better way to find bugs than to make a release. For
sure somebody will find a few bugs within the next day now that I have
released it; Murphy's law guarantees it. :-)

At the usual place: http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ Will appear also
at download.sourceforge.net within a day or so.

Changes from 4.6.11:

+ Stefan Lesicnik sent in a report from Intel which explains what is
probably wrong with the PnP header. BEV should point to the mainline
vector, not to the part that installs the INT19H vector.

+ Hopefully finally fixed DHCP option limit problem. It was requesting
large packets but not parsing them fully due to the length limit passed
into decode_rfc1533(). Thanks to shredda for testing this.

+ Added the # modifier to printf, it prefixes 0x to %x and %X making
printf formats shorter throughout. 0x%[xX] changed to %#[xX] in lots of
files.  Now if only I could make b,x,X the standard hhx,hx,x and get rid
of I.

+ Andreas Neuhaus provided patches for multiple rx buffers for lance.c
which made it work again with VMware.

+ Perl script to convert floppyfw floppies to netbootable images.

+ Marty Connor made some small changes to liloprefix and Makefile to
make the LILO images SYSLINUX bootable also.

+ Make the default return value for _poll in skel.c 0 so that when
driver writers implement _transmit first, it will not hang on garbage
return values from _poll when it's called to flush the input queue
before the first transmit.

+ EEPRO/10 driver now works. µs timer routines came in useful.

+ Anders Larsen sent in a patch to 3c90x.txt which makes it clearer.

+ Added more stuff to the documentation.

+ Fixed bug in mknbi that always did the equivalent of --ipaddrs=rom
no matter what. Also removed undef from my variable list in TruncFD.pm
so that it won't have problems with Perl interpreters.

MD5 sums:

ea6272686b6eba676724c06880d941ec  etherboot-4.6.12.tar.bz2
4a58d84fc3b5d05e68643d4d35bf1608  etherboot-4.6.12.tar.gz
4e9b15cea5f89039837985a6655f463d  patch-4.6.12.gz