[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.21 (5.0RC1) released
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From: Ken Y. <ke...@nl...> - 2001-03-04 11:54:55
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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 |