1 * Wed Jun 07 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
2 - Fixed bug where read_boot_order() would wrongly return EFI_NOT_FOUND
3 when it needed to create a new BootOrder variable. Reported by Micah Parrish.
4 - Added code to recursively walk the PCI bus putting parent PCI bridges
5 in. This is necessary for Dell PowerEdge 3250 and 7250 servers and
6 Intel Tiger2 and Tiger4 platforms when creating PXE boot entries for
7 the onboard NICs, and if creating EDD30 boot path entries. Work by Matt
9 - Note, efibootmgr now requires libpci for building.
10 - Released v0.5.0-test4
12 * Sat Apr 24 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
13 - Fixed reversed logic of create_or_edit_variable which prevented object
14 creation or editing on sysfs.
15 - Removed debug printfs in sysfs read/write commands.
16 - Released v0.5.0-test3
18 * Thu Feb 04 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
19 - removed -t short option for --test
20 - added -t <timeout> and -T delete timeout options
21 - updated man page and README about the timeout options
22 - Released v0.5.0-test2
24 * Tue Sep 09 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
25 - Released v0.5.0-test1
27 * Thu Sep 04 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
28 - Seperated access to variables through /proc into efivars_procfs.[ch]
29 - Added efivars_sysfs.h to access variables through sysfs.
30 - Moved around some functions, cleaned up some duplication.
32 * Thu Sep 04 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
33 - released v0.4.2-test2 as v0.4.2 without additional changes.
35 * Mon Aug 11 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
36 - fixed unaligned access errors
37 - removed extraneous printing of mac addr when creating netboot entries
38 - sync docbook to README
41 * Thu Jul 31 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
42 - Applied patch from Dann Frazier to enable creating netboot entries.
43 - update AUTHORS with Dann's netboot contribution.
44 - Until we can get the ACPI HID and UID programatically, make the user
45 pass them in when creating a netboot entry.
46 - Add O_DIRECT support for reading the disk.
47 - Fix unparse_hardware_path() for the PCI case - the device and function
48 values were printed in reverse order.
49 - Fix the README file to reflect all the options that can be passed, and
50 add a new item for netboot entries.
53 * Fri Oct 25 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
54 - trivial patch from Fabien Lebaillif - Delamare <fabien@quadric.com>
55 increases the length of the boot option description from 40 to 64 bytes.
57 * Tue Oct 22 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
58 - ran docbook2man on the man page Dann Frazier created
59 - Added man page to spec file
60 - Added patches from Dann Frazier
61 - Removes the requirement to be root to run efibootmgr. This lets
62 mortal users run efibootmgr to check the version, and see the
63 --help output. It should also allow efibootmgr to work under
64 security systems without the strict root/non-root dichotomy.
65 - Checks to see if a boot option was specified when a boot option
66 deletion was requested.
67 - Released version 0.4.1
69 * Sun Jul 21 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
70 - Added kernel_has_blkgetsize64() test, now uses BLKGETSIZE64 if on a
71 known-good kernel. This is important when the Large Block Device (64-bit
72 block address) patch gets merged into the 2.5 kernel.
74 * Wed May 1 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
75 - Released version 0.4.0
77 * Tue Apr 30 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
78 - Added some printfs to compare_gpts().
80 * Mon Apr 08 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
81 - Make sure partition number arg is in the GPT disk.
82 - Added a few more _FILE_OFFSET_BITS defines where needed
84 * Fri Apr 05 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
85 - Added syncs to make tarball target so NFS is current and CVS dirs get
86 deleted before the tarball is made.
87 - Added a few __leXX_to_cpu() calls in code currently commented out in gpt.c
89 * Tue Apr 02 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
90 - finished conversion to GPT code
92 * Sat Mar 30 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
93 - began conversion to GPT code in post-2.4.18 and post-2.5.7 kernels.
94 - added manpage contributed by dannf@fc.hp.com
96 * Mon Feb 11 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
97 - BLKGETSIZE64 is fixed in 2.4.18-pre8 and 2.5.4-pre3. Wait a bit longer
99 - added list_for_each_safe() routine. It's needed in the boot
100 var deletion routine, though it was already breaking out once found.
101 - changed struct list_head to list_t
102 - released v0.4.0-test4
104 * Fri Jan 18 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
105 - commented out BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl use for now. Kernels 2.4.15-2.4.18 and
106 2.5.0-2.5.3 don't return the right value.
108 * Thu Jan 3 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
109 - added back in read last sector IOCTL hack, but only after read() fails.
110 - released v0.4.0-test4
112 * Thu Jan 3 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
114 - released v0.4.0-test3
116 * Wed Jan 2 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
117 - Changed PROC_DIR_EFI to PROC_DIR_EFI_VARS
118 - write_variable() now searches /proc/efi/vars for a variable that's not
119 the one being written. The EFI 1.1 sample implementation changed the
120 name of the "victim" being written to (was Efi-xxxxx, now EFI-xxxxx), so
121 previous versions of efibootmgr don't work with the new firmware. This
123 - released v0.4.0-test2
125 * Fri Dec 7 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
126 - Removed read last sector ioctl hack, it's not needed anymore. The
127 kernel takes care of it for us with a new patch.
128 - Added test for valid PMBR, similar to parted and the kernel.
129 - Added test for returning size of block device as a u64.
130 - Added test for returning sector size as int, and use that.
131 - Changed GPT struct and member names to be more Linux-like.
132 - added -g option to force disk with invalid PMBR to be treated as GPT anyhow.
133 - released v0.4.0-test1
135 * Thu Aug 9 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
136 - Added some uniqueness to the MBR signature.
137 - removed ExclusiveArch from spec file
140 * Mon Aug 6 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
141 - applied patch from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> to fix
142 efichar_char_strcmp().
145 * Fri Aug 3 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
146 - By request, warn when creating a new boot entry with the same name
147 as another boot entry.
150 * Mon Jul 30 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
151 - Added test for non-zero signature on MBR-style disks,
152 and new -w flag to write a unique signature to the disk if so.
153 - released v0.3.3-test4
154 - Fixed counting of optional data length (extra args)
155 - released v0.3.3-test5
157 * Fri Jul 27 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
158 - Added test for running as root
159 - released v0.3.3-test3
161 * Thu Jul 26 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
162 - Unparse extra args being passed to bootloader too.
163 - released v0.3.3-test2
165 * Wed Jul 25 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
166 - Added -u option to pass extra args to the bootloader in unicode
167 (default is to pass in ASCII)
168 - Added -t option to allow writing to a file (for testing)
169 - released v0.3.3-test1
171 * Tue May 22 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
172 - Applied patch from Andreas Schwab. remove_from_boot_order() called
173 read_boot_order() without checking the return status.
174 - Changed README to remove os loader args comment
175 - Changed efi_status_t to be unsigned long (not uint64_t) as per EFI
176 spec. This allows efibootmgr to be recompiled as a 32-bit or 64-bit app
177 depending on its running on 32-bit or 64-bit Linux. Note: this changes
178 the size of the structure returned in /proc/efi/vars to match the kernel
179 implementation. 32-bit efibootmgr won't work on 64-bit Linux and vice versa.
182 * Fri May 18 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
183 - changed usage() to *not* let you think you can pass args to the OS
187 * Fri May 18 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
188 - Padded HARDDRIVE_DEVICE_PATH out to please EFI Boot Manager.
189 - Incorporated patches from Andreas Schwab
190 - replace __u{8,16,32,64} with uint{8,16,32,64}_t
191 - use _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
195 * Tue May 15 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
196 - initial external release v0.2.0