[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.14 (development) released

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

I have released Etherboot 4.7.14 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net

This is a development release leading to a new stable series. There will
be no further releases of 4.6. As it is a development release, EXPECT
BREAKAGE. But please help test it by reporting all problems.

Changes in 4.7.14:

+ Added more IDs for eepro100 variants taken from the Linux 2.2.18
source. Should handle the EEPROM properly now, a few defines were wrong
in 4.7.13.  Loop counter timeouts in eepro100.c replaced with hardware
timeouts.  Don't loop waiting for packet in _poll, return 0 immediately.

+ first32.linux works. Does kernel arguments and ramdisk but doesn't do
appended parameters from menu selections, which should be replaced by a
more elegant menu scheme anyway.  Needed gateA20 routines in
mknbi-1.1/first32.c otherwise cannot access extended memory.
first32.linux should be able to handle memory > 64 MB, which the old one
couldn't.  Support for first32pm call protocol added.

+ 3c595.c changed to use hardware timer for delays. Transmit routine
waits for a fixed period after transmitting. Changed to check
S_COMMAND_IN_PROGRESS bit. It also contains some of the same unused
variables as 3c509.c and mentions 3c509 in some comments. Cleaned up.

+ Hmm, how come this wasn't fixed long ago? Should discard BOOTP/DHCP
replies that are not to broadcast or own MAC address. I guess xid caught
practically of the non-matching packets.

+ Removed last vestiges of ETHERBOOT32 and ETHERBOOT16.

+ ETHER_ADDR_SIZE => ETH_ALEN, ETHER_HDR_SIZE => ETH_HLEN,
ETHER_MIN_PACKET => ETH_ZLEN, ETHER_MAX_PACKET => ETH_FRAME_LEN.  More
Linuxy and therefore more familiar to programmers.

+ Cleared up confusion with 60/64 and 1514/1518 for minimum and maximum
frame sizes. Practically always the right numbers are 60/1514, except
that some chips count the FCS in the receive length, then we have to use
64/1518.

+ Make __swap32 and __swap16 inline routines available globally as
swap32 and swap16. eepro.c can use swap16 instead of making up one.

+ Make aui field in nic.h an int since it will be padded to a longword
boundary anyway and call it flags so that other drivers can use it for
their own purposes. Currently only 3c503 uses it to indicate AUI xcvr.

+ Make sprintf return number of characters written instead of a pointer
to the last char written to be more consistent with standard C.

MD5 sums:

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178e86a787357bd71c6c691a2a4287f3  etherboot-4.7.14.tar.gz