[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.21 (5.0RC1) released

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

I have released Etherboot 4.7.21 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net

Changes in this release:

+ I changed my mind. I think the format in disrom.pl should be Z32,
otherwise it displays binary characters after the valid part of the
string. For people with Perl < 5.005, please upgrade.

+ Moved RELOC down to 0x94000. Turned on USE_INTERNAL_BUFFER by default.
Unless BOOTP_DATA_AT_0x93C00 is defined, use internal bootp strucutre.
This gets Etherboot out of the area just below 0x10000 and the area from
0x93C00-0x93FFF. DHCP packets can now be as large as the Ethernet
payload. Later on, first32.c and the parameter area could expand a bit.
In lance.c had to reduce RX_RING_SIZE (by reducing LANCE_LOG_RX_BUFFERS)
from 16 to 4 to fit the driver. I'd like to hear feedback from lance
users. Is 24kB of receive buffers really needed given that Etherboot
uses stop-wait protocols?

+ Doug Ambrisko sent in some patches for FreeBSD: a correction for one
typo I missed and changes to make compilation under FreeBSD easier.

+ Michael Sinz contributed patches to allow the FreeBSD loading code to
load debugging symbols also.

+ Marty Connor contributed a SiS900 driver. Also pointed out that if
ASK_BOOT <= 0, the prompt and read shouldn't even happen. Conditional
code reworked.

+ Split documentation into user manual and developer manual. Added
material.

MD5 sums:

83278b41f8d20404a71b4e91c2f2440a  etherboot-4.7.21.tar.bz2
04d5da6ec2fc8f5ea0d188752e1624b7  etherboot-4.7.21.tar.gz