Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.0.7rc1 released

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>BTW2 I'm working on making a standalone menu program stealing the code
>in bootmenu.c, it should be in the next mknbi release (he said,
>hopefully).

Ok, I've got the bootmenu stuff loading as an external program instead
of running out of the bootrom. So the days of bootmenu code inside
Etherboot are numbered since it can be pushed into an external program.

However as the default config specifies MOTD and IMAGE_MENU, the new
external bootmenu won't be triggered when these are active. So my
proposed timeline looks something like this:

5.0.7: MOTD and IMAGE_MENU are taken out of the default configuration.
Use is deprecated.  Bugs in the bootmenu code are fixed in the external
version first.

Mknbi 1.2.8: mknbi-menu is released for general use. Maintenance and
development of bootmenu moves here.  Additional versions that do splash
screens and what not are encouraged.

5.2 or thereabouts: Bootmenu code is removed from Etherboot.