[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.17 (development) released

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

I have released Etherboot 4.7.17 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net

Changes in this release:

+ Added atftp 0.2 (ftp://ftp.mamalinux.com/pub/atftp/) to contrib/.
Supposedly contains a tftpd that runs multithreaded, which may help
people having problems with *inetd shutting down tftpds that spawn too
fast.

+ Added a few more Tulip entries to config.c and NIC, not all of them
have been confirmed working.

+ Got ELF format creation in mkelf-linux working now. At least one empty
section header is required to make a valid ELF file.

+ Added code to support non-MULTIBOOT ELF when IMAGE_ELF is selected but
IMAGE_MULTIBOOT is not.  Booting from images created by mkelf-linux
now works!

+ TAGGED_IMAGE is now not always selected. It's just the fallback if
none of TAGGED_IMAGE, AOUT_IMAGE or ELF_IMAGE is selected. Therefore you
must explicitly select TAGGED_IMAGE if you want it, and you have
selected AOUT_IMAGE or ELF_IMAGE.  Startup banner line displays all
image formats accepted.

+ exit() in mknbi/start32.S should copy argument to %eax first.

+ Images with 0xAA55 in bytes 510-511 are no longer accepted, which
should reject invalid formats now, e.g. Linux kernel images, which have
a boot sector in the first block. Strictly this does not conform to the
original netboot spec by Jamie Honan, which specifies that non-tagged,
linear images starting from 0x10000 are allowed, but that format is
pretty useless now. Any decent loading scheme needs a roadmap to the
blocks in the downloaded file, which is what tagged, a.out, or ELF
images provide in the header. Q: What is config_buffer in main.c for?
Nothing else seems to use it. Is it a relic of non-tagged images?

+ Clean up lots of obsolete prototypes in etherboot.h. Ansify lots of
function headers in main.c. Make lots of functions and variables in
main.c static.  Make bootmenu.c:getoptvalue() static.

+ Simple external menu program works!

+ More documentation cleanup, notably editing the compile options to
match what has been done.

MD5 sums:

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