[Etherboot-developers] editing release announcement for 5.2
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From: <ke...@et...> - 2003-08-02 03:04:40
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Ok, so far no showstoppers in sight. I'll need to make up a release announcement. It'll just be the major improvements in 5.2 in point form. However so much has gone in that I fear I may have forgotten something. So here's what I have and if I missed something, let me know and I'll put it in. Major improvements in 5.2: + Now multiplatform, ported to Itanium and Hammer. + Restruture of code: separation of platform independent and dependent parts. Decompressor now in C and platform independent. + Relocation to top of memory, removes the 45 kB limit on footprint. + Support for multicasting (in selected drivers) + Simple disk and floppy drivers (for loading ELF images) + Generalised URLs for load files. + New drivers: Broadcom TG3, Sundance, TLAN, Prism wireless NICs. + Encapsulated PCI IDs. + UNDI support + Better method for compilation of PCI ID table. + Lots of bug fixes for drivers, symlink support for NFS, experimental support for signed boot files. + Rewrite of documentation and web pages. + ??? |