[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.16 (development) released

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

Happy New Year!

I have released Etherboot 4.7.16 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net

Changes in this release:

+ Duplicated 3c900 PCI IDs under 3c595 as some NICs apparently detect
and work with the 3c595 driver but not the 3c90x driver, according to a
report from Dirk Pfau. (The 3c90x series has two modes of operation,
programmed I/O mode descended from the 3c509, good only for 10 Mb
operation, and bus mastering mode, essential for 100 Mb operation. For
network booting, either mode is acceptable.)

+ Removed auto from kernel parameters; it's the default already.

+ Use hardware timer instead of loop counter for transmit timeout in
3c90x.c.

+ Define a jmpbuf type for setjmp and longjmp. Trim size to 7 longs,
that's all that's needed. Standardise the return values from longjmp:
-2: loader error, -1: timeout or ESC, 0: normal, 1..: return from
program.

+ Ansify function headers in bootmenu.c.

+ Make _int10 return ax | (bx << 16) as result so that these can be
accessed more efficiently in the following statements.

+ Make handleansi take unsigned int instead of unsigned char as
argument, otherwise extra code will be generated to handle this
according to ANSI rules.  (Quite significant saving of 55 bytes.) Rename
it ansi_putc for clarity.

+ Prefix getc, putc and ischar with console_ to make things clearer and
to avoid confusion with the Unix getc, putc.

+ Add menu as a target to mknbi. Started source code for menu extension.
Successfully transferred control to menu at 0x10000 and back. ANSI
colour controls work, at least. Return end needs more work.

+ Started on Elf support in mknbi.

MD5 sums:

0f5a1a16fd828c6ed74bf39027ae23ec  etherboot-4.7.16.tar.bz2
5c4c063301061ce943e045e9c56b1b3b  etherboot-4.7.16.tar.gz