[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.0.3 (production) released

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I have released Etherboot 5.0.3 (sources and documentation) at
http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/distribution.html

Please note that new releases will no longer appear in the FTP area as
Sourceforge is phasing out FTP fetching.

Changes from 5.1.1 (development) are:

+ All the changes from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 carried over.

+ The rotating bar progress display has been replaced by a sequence of
dots, one for each transmitted packet. This is kinder to dumb displays,
e.g. serial terminals, and gives a better feel for how the loading is 
going. If you want the rotating bar, use -DBAR_PROGRESS.

+ In loader.S change .fill 0x18-(.-_start) to .org 0x18. Might help
people having errors assembling it.

+ Do Jong Gwan found a 3Com 980 with PCI ID 0x9805. Added to config.c
and NIC. Added for good measure 0x7646 which is listed as 3CSOHO100-TX
in Linux kernel 3c59x.c.

+ Add a rule to the Makefile to check for gcc 2.96, which is buggy, and
tell the user to use kgcc instead if found.

+ Till Straumann added long-needed code to warn when fragmented packets
seen (encountered on a wireless link) and to do UDP packet checksumming.

+ A trio of patches from Klaus Espenlaub, to fix a lance ring pointer
error in lance.c, to fix a format error in the multiboot call in
osloader.c and a patch to enable powersaving while waiting (good for
compute clusters and VMware), this one requiring the new option
-DPOWERSAVE in compiles.

+ While we are adding compile options, -DFLOPPY has been renamed to
-DCAN_BOOT_DISK as FLOPPY has been a misnomer ever since the ability to
boot /dev/hdX and /dev/sdX was added.

+ Spurred by correspondence from Till Straumann and Klaus Espenlaub,
hacked printf to not require a buffer. Now printf output can be
arbitrarily long as it no longer needs a buffer to assemble the
characters before sending to putchar; it outputs on the spot for
non-format chars and %s items, and at the end of the item for non-%s
items.

+ DRIVER AND EXTENSION WRITERS NOTE! (s)printf formats have been changed
to be a subset of those in glibc to reduce confusion. The changes are %x
-> %hX, %b -> %hhX, and %I -> %@. Lower case x formats are also
available now. The only variances from glibc are %@ for dotted quad IP
addresses (formerly %I; %I is now used), %! for 6 byte Ethernet
addresses, and that printf returns void. Thanks to Klaus Espenlaub for
assistance on this, after adding the %! format, he cleaned up all of the
Ethernet address display code in the drivers.

+ More cleanup patches from Klaus Espenlaub (he's better than lint;
people who have used Bell Labs Unix will know what lint is). Changes
noted here for posterity.

3c509.c: consistent non-use of # modifier for debugging output
3c595.c: consistent non-use of # modifier for debugging output
3c90x.c: use optimal %x variant, PCI bus/function numbers are always small
Config: Replace a TAB by two spaces inside the descriptions
eepro100.c: 6->ETH_ALEN, PCI bus/function numbers are always small
floppy.c: optimal %x variant
genrules.pl: consistent use of TAB characters
i82586.c: the ENET address printing patch for the EXOS205 got lost somehow....
main.c: cleanup of the UDP_CHECKSUM comment some editor messed up, make the
    assembly fragment use the normal formatting, fix the register assignment
    specification for the %bx register to use the "b" constraint instead of
    "bx" - the x makes no sense...
natsemi.c: %X case fix...
ns8390.c: optimal %x variant
pci.c: fix bad Linux port (most messages truncated the hex values)
sis900.c: a value read with inl() should probably(!) be printed with %X
start32.S: move around the #endifs a little
timer.c: fix space/tab characters
via-rhine.c: all values "printed" inside the comments are 32 bit integers
wd89c840.c: PCI bus/function numbers are always small

MD5 sums:

07a3acb536e1fb4488f5f6fd25fa628b  etherboot-5.0.3.tar.bz2
0d1d2ec47102ad8ad4b6ce5a4b2d60da  etherboot-5.0.3.tar.gz
8d7bb9494447ea7c6836d008688f0324  patch-5.0.3.gz
772710bc4089449a00f86b47a63e9a47  etherboot-doc-5.0.3.tar.bz2
d74c8539e46f8d4dbe25d1f71b596d65  etherboot-doc-5.0.3.tar.gz

SHA1 sums:

37904126c23adae79c023f4e50b08af0beb0f0f1  etherboot-5.0.3.tar.bz2
941c88010109aee966ca93ffce523db1644f074b  etherboot-5.0.3.tar.gz
46f3b569e6044a4f23dae6ff031309916fcb521c  patch-5.0.3.gz
0f8b95471627826e2b32fd730efbf503fb9f9526  etherboot-doc-5.0.3.tar.bz2
06a4584f209522d330c36b4fe7ba92a831fcd8a0  etherboot-doc-5.0.3.tar.gz