[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.23 (5.0RC3) released

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

I have released Etherboot 4.7.23 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net

It would be very much appreciated if any breakage with PnP BIOS booting
due to change number 3 are reported. Conversely if BIOSes that didn't
detect before now do, we'd like to know that too. Thanks.

Changes in this release:

+ Reintroduce the old Via-Rhine PCI IDs into file NIC and give the
corresponding ROM images -old suffixes, in case some people are using
the old chips.

+ Peter Kögel contributed patches to the SIS900 driver to make it work
for the SIS640e/SIS730s.

+ Charles Dobson pointed out that when booting from a PnP BIOS, the code
should not hook or restore the INT19H entry point.  Put hooking code
inside #ifndef PCI_PNP_HEADER and changed entry point in PnP structure
from start19h to blockmove.

+ I have one report that gas 2.91 doesn't assemble loader.S because it
can't handle all the 16-bit code. Since the benefits of using gas for
all assembly code are great, and gas 2.95 has been out there for a long
time, I regretfully say to affected users: upgrade your tools. Otherwise
there may be a workaround by specifying the opcodes literally.  I leave
it to interested parties to try. If you do this, put in an #ifdef
GAS291, naturally.

+ Updated contrib/tftp-hpa to 0.16 from ftp.kernel.org.

MD5 sums:

7909168a3c2c7aca986fb6150ac4c8f6  etherboot-4.7.23.tar.bz2
03a821af724b778fc844c9bb7a8b81f8  etherboot-4.7.23.tar.gz