Imported Upstream version 0.5.0

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* Thu Aug 26 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- v0.5.0-test4 released as v0.5.0 with no code changes

* Wed Jun 07 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Fixed bug where read_boot_order() would wrongly return EFI_NOT_FOUND
  when it needed to create a new BootOrder variable.  Reported by Micah Parrish.
- Added code to recursively walk the PCI bus putting parent PCI bridges
  in.  This is necessary for Dell PowerEdge 3250 and 7250 servers and
  Intel Tiger2 and Tiger4 platforms when creating PXE boot entries for
  the onboard NICs, and if creating EDD30 boot path entries.  Work by Matt
  and Joshua Giles.
  - Note, efibootmgr now requires libpci for building.
- Released v0.5.0-test4

* Sat Apr 24 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Fixed reversed logic of create_or_edit_variable which prevented object
  creation or editing on sysfs.
- Removed debug printfs in sysfs read/write commands.
- Released v0.5.0-test3

* Thu Feb 04 2004 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- removed -t short option for --test
- added -t <timeout> and -T delete timeout options
- updated man page and README about the timeout options
- Released v0.5.0-test2

* Tue Sep 09 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Released v0.5.0-test1

* Thu Sep 04 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Seperated access to variables through /proc into efivars_procfs.[ch]
- Added efivars_sysfs.h to access variables through sysfs.
- Moved around some functions, cleaned up some duplication.

* Thu Sep 04 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- released v0.4.2-test2 as v0.4.2 without additional changes.

* Mon Aug 11 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- fixed unaligned access errors
- removed extraneous printing of mac addr when creating netboot entries
- sync docbook to README
- whitespace cleanups

* Thu Jul 31 2003 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Applied patch from Dann Frazier to enable creating netboot entries.
- update AUTHORS with Dann's netboot contribution.
- Until we can get the ACPI HID and UID programatically, make the user
  pass them in when creating a netboot entry.
- Add O_DIRECT support for reading the disk.
- Fix unparse_hardware_path() for the PCI case - the device and function
  values were printed in reverse order.
- Fix the README file to reflect all the options that can be passed, and
  add a new item for netboot entries.
- whitespace cleanups

* Fri Oct 25 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- trivial patch from Fabien Lebaillif - Delamare <fabien@quadric.com>
  increases the length of the boot option description from 40 to 64 bytes.

* Tue Oct 22 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- ran docbook2man on the man page Dann Frazier created
- Added man page to spec file
- Added patches from Dann Frazier
  - Removes the requirement to be root to run efibootmgr.  This lets
    mortal users run efibootmgr to check the version, and see the
    --help output. It should also allow efibootmgr to work under
    security systems without the strict root/non-root dichotomy.
    - Checks to see if a boot option was specified when a boot option
    deletion was requested.
- Released version 0.4.1

* Sun Jul 21 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added kernel_has_blkgetsize64() test, now uses BLKGETSIZE64 if on a
  known-good kernel.  This is important when the Large Block Device (64-bit
  block address) patch gets merged into the 2.5 kernel.

* Wed May 1 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Released version 0.4.0

* Tue Apr 30 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added some printfs to compare_gpts().

* Mon Apr 08 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Make sure partition number arg is in the GPT disk.
- Added a few more _FILE_OFFSET_BITS defines where needed

* Fri Apr 05 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added syncs to make tarball target so NFS is current and CVS dirs get
  deleted before the tarball is made.
- Added a few __leXX_to_cpu() calls in code currently commented out in gpt.c

* Tue Apr 02 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- finished conversion to GPT code

* Sat Mar 30 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- began conversion to GPT code in post-2.4.18 and post-2.5.7 kernels.
- added manpage contributed by dannf@fc.hp.com

* Mon Feb 11 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- BLKGETSIZE64 is fixed in 2.4.18-pre8 and 2.5.4-pre3.  Wait a bit longer
before using though.
- added list_for_each_safe() routine.  It's needed in the boot
var deletion routine, though it was already breaking out once found.
- changed struct list_head to list_t
- released v0.4.0-test4

* Fri Jan 18 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- commented out BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl use for now.  Kernels 2.4.15-2.4.18 and
  2.5.0-2.5.3 don't return the right value.

* Thu Jan 3 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- added back in read last sector IOCTL hack, but only after read() fails.
- released v0.4.0-test4

* Thu Jan 3 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- more cleanups
- released v0.4.0-test3

* Wed Jan 2 2002 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Changed PROC_DIR_EFI to PROC_DIR_EFI_VARS
- write_variable() now searches /proc/efi/vars for a variable that's not
  the one being written.  The EFI 1.1 sample implementation changed the
  name of the "victim" being written to (was Efi-xxxxx, now EFI-xxxxx), so
  previous versions of efibootmgr don't work with the new firmware.  This
  should fix that up.
- released v0.4.0-test2

* Fri Dec 7 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Removed read last sector ioctl hack, it's not needed anymore.  The
  kernel takes care of it for us with a new patch.
- Added test for valid PMBR, similar to parted and the kernel.
- Added test for returning size of block device as a u64.
- Added test for returning sector size as int, and use that.
- Changed GPT struct and member names to be more Linux-like.
- added -g option to force disk with invalid PMBR to be treated as GPT anyhow.
- released v0.4.0-test1

* Thu Aug 9 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added some uniqueness to the MBR signature.
- removed ExclusiveArch from spec file
- released v0.3.4

* Mon Aug 6 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- applied patch from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> to fix
  efichar_char_strcmp().


* Fri Aug 3 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- By request, warn when creating a new boot entry with the same name
  as another boot entry.
- released v0.3.3

* Mon Jul 30 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added test for non-zero signature on MBR-style disks,
  and new -w flag to write a unique signature to the disk if so.
- released v0.3.3-test4
- Fixed counting of optional data length (extra args)
- released v0.3.3-test5

* Fri Jul 27 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added test for running as root
- released v0.3.3-test3

* Thu Jul 26 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Unparse extra args being passed to bootloader too.
- released v0.3.3-test2

* Wed Jul 25 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Added -u option to pass extra args to the bootloader in unicode
  (default is to pass in ASCII)
- Added -t option to allow writing to a file (for testing)
- released v0.3.3-test1

* Tue May 22 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Applied patch from Andreas Schwab.  remove_from_boot_order() called
  read_boot_order() without checking the return status.
- Changed README to remove os loader args comment
- Changed efi_status_t to be unsigned long (not uint64_t) as per EFI
  spec.  This allows efibootmgr to be recompiled as a 32-bit or 64-bit app
  depending on its running on 32-bit or 64-bit Linux.  Note:  this changes
  the size of the structure returned in /proc/efi/vars to match the kernel
  implementation.  32-bit efibootmgr won't work on 64-bit Linux and vice versa.
- release v0.3.2

* Fri May 18 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- changed usage() to *not* let you think you can pass args to the OS
  loader
- release v0.3.1

* Fri May 18 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- Padded HARDDRIVE_DEVICE_PATH out to please EFI Boot Manager.
- Incorporated patches from Andreas Schwab
  - replace __u{8,16,32,64} with uint{8,16,32,64}_t
  - use _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
  - fix a segfault
- release v0.3.0

* Tue May 15 2001 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
- initial external release v0.2.0