[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.24 (5.0RC4) released

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

I have released Etherboot 4.7.24 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/

Changes in this release:

+ Rename nepci entry in file NIC to rtl8029 to avoid giving the
impression that nepci will work for all PCI NE2000 clones. Make the
issue of PCI IDs in ROMs clearer in documentation, both in the
configuration and troubleshooting sections.

+ Tania Oka and Hyun-Joon Cha at about the same time found that
implementing the rtl_disable() routine in rtl8139.c stopped random
crashes in Linux later. It is important to disable the NIC after network
loading.

+ Implemented _disable() routine in w89c840, 3c90x and via-rhine drivers
too. Don't know how to do it for epic100.

+ p910nd-0.4 in contrib/ has -f device option now to specify other
printer ports, e.g.  USB.

+ Robb Main found a bug with the #ifdef logic in loader.S. This may fix
problems with BIOS detection.

MD5 sums:

58f234c8ab460ad8bddc857ebfb64532  etherboot-4.7.24.tar.bz2
49fdfad222cd8b3504e273ee88781da4  etherboot-4.7.24.tar.gz