[Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.0.5 released

[<ke...@us...>]

I have released Etherboot 5.0.5 at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
and also at http://etherboot.berlios.de/

Changes from 5.0.4:

+ Fixed a struct alignment (8-byte constraint) problem in lance.c caused
by the introduction of the rx_idx field by moving rx_idx to the end of
the struct. Found by Rizsanyi Zsolt. Klaus Espenlaub also suggested
increasing all the Rx buffers by 4 bytes because of the checksum stored
at the end.

+ Fred Gray contributed changes in tulip.c to check for a duplex
connection and to modify the controller register if so. Marty fixed an
unassigned to "negotiated" variable.

+ Mark G of Inprimis Technologies contributed another FA311 (National
Semiconductor DP83815) driver, also based on the Donald Becker Linux
driver.

+ Armin Schindler contributed a patch to allow booting LynxOS KDI
images.

+ Moved code to set PCI busmastering and reasonable latency to a routine
in pci.c and added calls to this routine from all PCI drivers.

+ New files for contrib/mkffwnb for version 1.9.11 and 1.9.16.

+ Removed BOOTP_DATA_AT_0x93Cxx option.

+ Convert epic100 driver to use hardware timer for transmit timeout and
remove polling loop from receive routine.

+ Steve Tilden pointed out that BOOT_INT18H is a LCONFIG option, not a
CFLAGS32 option. Put note under option documentation and also added a
commented-out example in Config. Steve also contributed a patch¸ in
contrib/auto-default, which autoboots from the next device if a disk is
detected.

+ PNP_BUT_NOT_BBS_COMPLIANT option renamed to BBS_BUT_NOT_PNP_COMPLIANT.

+ Merged in Vasil Vasilev's changes to loader.S to release memory taken
by PXE properly.

+ E820 memory detection routines added by Eric Biederman. May increase
size of bss segment and push large drivers, e.g. Tulip, nearer to limit,
please report.

+ Default to -DCONGESTED in Config, may help on busy networks.

+ Add Holtek HT80232 to list of NE2000 PCI clones.

+ Remove prohibition on loading < 0x10000 in ELF images since by default
drivers don't use memory < 0x10000 any more, with 48kB to run in.

+ Put define of ETH_MAX_MTU in etherboot.h inside #ifndef so that it can
be overriden from Makefile.

+ Gustavo Junior Alves added .cvsignore files for src/bin and src/bin32.

+ Short note on how to make tomsrtbt netbootable in contrib/tomsrtbt.

This release is dedicated to the memory of my mother (July 1917 -
November 2001) [Ken Yap].

Released as Etherboot 5.0.5 (production)

MD5 sums:

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4ac4ae1bedfbea21acace604229c4ff2  etherboot-5.0.5.tar.gz
64579f1e248c4e7e8c632a57dcee2013  patch-5.0.5.gz

SHA1 sums:

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fbf50f9f6169b9b53b5ed416fb0394472261d06f  etherboot-5.0.5.tar.gz
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