Re: [Etherboot-developers] editing release announcement for 5.2

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ke...@et... writes:

> 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.

Hmm...  Last I looked there was a decompressor in C that you could
use, for testing etc.  But the one used was still in assembly so it
could be insanely small.

> + Relocation to top of memory, removes the 45 kB limit on footprint.

My boxes with > 4GB don't seem to agree but close enough.
 
> + Support for multicasting (in selected drivers)
> 
> + Simple disk and floppy drivers (for loading ELF images)

   a.out and nbi images should work as well. In fact everything except
   legacy boot sectors should work.  Only ELF images support
   being scattered all over the disk, but that is because ELF images
   support having holes in them.

+ Simple disk and floppy drivers (for loading normal Etherboot images)
 
> + Generalised URLs for load files.
> 
> + New drivers: Broadcom TG3, Sundance, TLAN, Prism wireless NICs.
> 
> + Encapsulated PCI IDs.
> 
> + UNDI support

--  We need to say that we are using UNDI as a driver not that
    we export the UNDI interface.
> 
> + 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.
> 
> + ???

  + Image suffixes changed.

Eric