[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.18 (development) released

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

First a big wave to Marty, Jim and others at LinuxWorld Expo who are
demonstrating Etherboot, LTSP, and rom-o-matic. Good on you guys.

I have released Etherboot 4.7.18 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/

Changes in 4.7.18:

+ Marty Connor did it again! He found a long standing bug in the PnP ROM
header which caused it not to be recognised by BIOSes. Now Etherboot ROM
images are PnP compliant. I hacked makerom.c to fill in the offset of
the ident string for the device string so that the BIOS can even print
out "Etherboot" and the device ident on boot up.

+ Made demo menu program a bit more elaborate with timeout.

+ Igor V. Kovalenko fixed the Winbond W89C840 driver to use the hardware
timer instead of CPU counter loops. Now none of the Etherboot drivers
rely on CPU speed dependent loops.

+ Small fix to contrib/p910nd.c to not use getprotobyname which requires
libnss_files.so, which may not be installed in all environments.

+ Small change to contrib/mkffwnb to allow the user to choose ELF format
(by editing one line) instead of tagged format.

+ Patch to atftp-0.2 to make it accept a filename if the directory is a
prefix of the filename. This is needed so that valid absolute pathnames
will work. Patch sent to atftp authors.

+ Added support for filtering out replies which do not include a Vendor
Class Identifier of "Etherboot" in the Vendor Encapsulated Options. This
can be used to select only the DHCP servers which we want to get
addresses from and reject the rest.  Select the compile option
-DREQUIRE_VCI_ETHERBOOT. This requires ISC DHCPD 2 or 3 AFAIK.  (It's
not documented in DHCPD 2, but it works.) Other DHCP servers may support
VEO. (It's a RFC2132 option.)

+ Jim Thomas suggested a way, other than creating /fastboot, of
preventing fsck from running on NFS root, ln -s /bin/true
/sbin/fsck.nfs. Not verified but should work. Added to documentation.

MD5 sums:

364e21b130f1d2b14d0c67d7967762b6  etherboot-4.7.18.tar.bz2
3ff333399f49c51d4c96411a484ca0d1  etherboot-4.7.18.tar.gz