1 2006-01-09 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
3 2005-12-22 Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
4 * Fixed vmcode_name initialization in textmenu chooser
5 2005-12-01 Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
6 * Applied patch from Fred Yang <fred.yang@intel.com> to support the
7 vmm= boot option. This option specifies the kernel image for a
8 virtual machine monitor (aka hypervisor). The vmm= and image=
9 options are used together to load both the hypervisor kernel and
10 the guest domain kernel into memory. If a vmm= option is not
11 specified, elilo defaults to the old behavior of loading and booting
13 * Added support for compressed image= files when used with the vmm=
14 option. If the image= file is detected to be gzip compressed, the
15 image will be uncompressed into memory before it is provided to the
16 hypervisor. Any combination of compressed and uncompressed images
17 can be used for the image and vmm options.
18 2005-09-15 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
19 * Applied patch from Tristan Gingold to add dcache flush and sync with
20 icache to gzip and plain loaders. This ommision was just noticed now
21 due to the much larger caches in Montecito, and the smaller size of
22 Xen (as compared to the linux kernel).
23 2004-09-27 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
24 * Increase the hardcoded size of the texmenu chooser menu from 16 to 64
25 2004-09-23 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
26 * Fix for 924147. Thanks to Stephanie Schaaf <sas@sgi.com> for a patch
27 that the fix is based on.
28 2004-02-19 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
29 * Fixed bug where default image initrd would carry over to another
30 image that was selected interactively (iff the newly selected image
31 did not have an initrd).
32 * Added support for subnet-specific config files in netfs.
33 2004-02-17 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
34 * integrated ia32 compressed kernel support from Matt Tolentino
35 <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
36 2003-08-20 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
38 2003-08-19 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
39 * integrated ia32 updates from Matt
40 Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
41 2003-08-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
42 * updated elilo.txt and netbooting.txt
43 * fix a bug in choosers/simple.c:print_infos().
44 it needs to check if config file path is absolute
45 when printing filename.
46 * move definitions of CHAR_SLASH CHAR_BACKSLASH to elilo.h
47 * fix a bug in read_config() where it would try other
48 filename even when the user explicitely specified one
49 via -C, now it fails it that file cannot be opened.
50 * updated simple chooser set of builtin command keys
51 * command keys are only valid if first on the line
52 * increase default buffer size and increment when netbooting
53 2003-06-04 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
54 * fix fs/netfs.c to work with recent version
55 of EFI (14.61 or higher) which do not have the
56 TFTP problem anymore. fix submitted by Guy Laborde
57 2003-04-21 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
58 * ext2fs support is turned off by default to avoid
59 problems with ext3-formatted partitions.
60 * added gcc version check. MUST use 3.0 or higher
61 2003-03-03 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
62 * added check on dev_tab in fs/*fs.c:*_uninstall()
63 2003-02-07 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
64 * clean up in glue_localfs.c w.r.t. CHAR16 in set_default_path()
65 * added support for extracting basename of bootloader path
66 when using BOOTP (DHCP) only. The prefix is then used for all files
67 open via netfs. Suggestion and initial patch by Guy Laborde from HP.
68 2003-01-28 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
69 * fix the set_default_path() routine in glue_localfs.c. It would not
70 correctly get the basename of the devpath. This caused the
71 elilo.conf not to be found sometimes.
72 2003-01-21 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
73 * fix bug in glue_netfs.c convert_ip2decstr() which caused some IP
74 addresses to be incorrectly converted to strings.
75 2002-11-01 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
76 * fix bug in -r option for IA64. There is no argument to this option.
77 2002-10-15 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
78 * fixed a double free bug for the kernel memory in case of abort.
79 (bug spotted by Levent Akyl from Intel)
81 2002-09-14 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
82 * applied patch from Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> to eliloalt.c.
83 eliloalt dynamically selects a variable in /proc/efi/vars.
84 2002-09-12 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
85 * removed extra free() from fs/ext2fs.c:ext2fs_init_state().
86 Bug report and fix by NOMURA Jun'ichi <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
87 * rewrote fs/ext2fs.c:read_bytes() to large memory stack buffer which
88 was bigger than the 128KB limit of EFI causing some weird fimrware
89 errors. bug reported by OMURA Jun'ichi <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
90 * on IA-64 forbid the use of f32-f127 by the compiler (EFI spec)
91 2002-09-10 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
92 * fix a bug in argify() that was causing an EFI assertion
93 when aborting at the elilo prompt when netbooted.
94 2002-08-26 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
95 * fixed devschemes/simple.c to use SPrint() instead of its own buggy
96 conversion code (spotted by Richard Hirst).
97 * fix bug in argify() when there was no NULL character in the string.
99 2002-08-19 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
100 * added fpswa.txt in the docs directory
102 2002-08-15 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
103 * added -F file option for IA-64 to allow a specific fpswa driver to be loaded
104 * fixed fpswa.c to try and load the driver from all accessible partitions
105 * added support to load (plain or gzipped) big-endian ELF/ia64 binaries using p_paddr.
106 * fixed problem in fs/netfs.c causing large (>4MB) binaries to fail the Mftp() call
107 2002-06-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
108 * Changed the despecialization character for the variables from \\ to &
109 to avoid conflicts with \\ as a path separator
110 2002-06-11 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
111 * fixed the return value in efi_main(). elilo was always returning
112 success even in case of failure. Bug reported by Egan Ford <egan@sense.net>
113 * applied patch from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> to fix an
114 initialization bug in choosers/textmenu.c
115 * applied patch from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> to make elilo
116 compliant with EFI spec with regards to where it looks for files.
117 With this patch, elilo will look in the directory it was loaded
118 from, not on the root of the partition anymore.
119 2002-03-04 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
120 * released version 3.2
121 * cleanup some GNU extension in fs/ext2fs.c (variable size array)
122 * updated all documentation. Added netbooting.txt, simple_chooser.txt,
123 eliloalt.txt, elilovar.txt
124 2002-02-21 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
125 * added a Linux utility program (elilovar in tools) to set/read/delete
126 the EliloAlt EFI variable used to specify an alternate kernel to boot.
127 * rename DBG_PRINT() to DBG_PRT, PRINT_ERR() to ERR_PRT()
128 * added support for hostname,domain name extraction in fs/netfs.c
129 * fixed all known bugs in alternate.c
130 * integrated patch from SGI to fix load offset for relocatable kernels (Jack Steiner, Brent Casavant)
131 2002-02-21 Michael Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com> and Chris Ahna <christopher.j.ahna@intel.com>
132 * major update to ia32 support: can now boot 2.4.x, and 2.2.x kernels
133 2002-02-20 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
134 * fixed missing netfs_fd_free() in case of file not found in netfs.c
135 2002-02-19 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
136 * added support for substitution variables (vars.c)
137 * changed the bootparam structure size back to 4kB
138 * added support to simple to print final command line option with tab key
139 * got rid of all the \r characters in strings use only \n (adjust emulator)
140 * added EFICRT0 variable in Makefile to indicate location of loader script+crt0
141 2002-02-14 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
142 * added support for message= option to simple chooser
143 * added support for description= option to simple chooser
144 2002-02-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
145 * choosers/textmenu.c: new textmenu chooser (by rhirst@linuxcare.com) used by Debian
146 * config.c: added support for dynamic global/per-image option management
147 * ia64/plain_loader.c,ia64/gzip.c: fix load_offset (<bcasavan@sgi.com>)
148 * added cmd line (-E) and config option (noedd30) to not set EDD30 EFI variable to
149 true if not already TRUE (request by Matt_Domsch@dell.com)
150 * added support for multiple devname schemes and probing
152 2002-01-31 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
153 * cleaned up alternate.c
154 * added support for ctrl-U (clear line) in chooser/simple.c
156 2002-01-25 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
157 * added support for architecture specific config file (elilo-ia64.conf, elilo-ia32.conf).
159 2002-01-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
160 * removed call to Reset() in ext2fs.c
162 2001-08-17 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
164 * added support for command line architecture specific options:
165 sysdeps_get_cmdline_opts(), sysdeps_print_cmdline_opts(),
167 * added IA-64 command line option (-r) for relocation
168 * fix behavior when kernel specified on command line but prompt
169 mode was specified in config file. In this case, we now autoboot
170 and ignore the prompt directive.
172 2001-08-15 Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
173 * fix a bug in config.c:find_option() where it would do
174 a strXcmp() on a NULL string.
176 2001-08-01 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
177 * fixed bug in fs/netfs.c where it would not handle the small buffer
178 error correctly. The retry path was not allocating a bigger buffer.
179 * Global config options are now used if the user specifies a non-label
180 load target, i.e. a kernel image file.
181 * added support for architecture dependent config file image options (sys_img_options_t).
182 * added support for setjmp/longjmp.
183 * added support for aborting during a compressed load
184 * added support for user to abort a load of a compressed file.
185 * added 2 new ia-64 only config file options allowing kernel relocation:
186 'relocatable' as a global or per image option.
187 * added support for kernel relocation on memory error. Based on code from
188 Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>.
189 * added slash/backslash conversion for filenames on vfat filesystems.
191 2001-07-23 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
192 * fixed error in netfs.c where the kernel name was not correctly set in
194 * fixed to wait_timeout() to correct the problem with the interactive prompt when
195 return is hit directly when no text
196 * fixed command line argument destruction problem, now we make a copy of them. This
197 was affecting elilo when called directly from bootmanager with NVRAM options.
199 2001-06-28 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
200 * removed W2U() hack to get from wide-char to unicode. Use -fshort-wchar option instead.
201 * split gnu-efi package in two different packages: the libary+include+crt and the bootloader.
202 * restructured the fileops module. Now use direct function calls.
203 * added support for accessing files on different devices.
204 * fixed a buffer leak in simple_chooser.c. Renamed simple_chooser.c to simple.c.
205 * created a strops.c file to incorporate all string operations functions.
206 * added support for ext2fs filesystem.
207 * restructured code to allow additional filesystems to be added easily.
208 * cleaned up add-on chooser interface.
209 * restructured code to use the EFI protocol interface to install filesystems.
210 * added compile-time options to turn on and off specific filesystems.
211 * added support for architecture specific configuration options (elilo.conf).
212 * added fpswa option to IA-64 to designate a fpswa driver file.
213 * incoporated IA-32 support from Mike Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com>
214 * incorporated rewritten gzip.c:flush_window() from Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
215 * added interface for custom device naming schemes (devnames directory).
216 * added support for 2 possible config file (now just on netboot). The first
217 (primary) choice uses a host specific filename based on the IP address. Suggestion
218 from Egan Ford <egan@sense.net>.
220 2001-04-06 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
222 * incorporated patches from David and Michael Johnston at Intel
223 to get the package to compile for IA-32 linux target.
225 * Fixed ELILO to compile for Ia-32 (does not execute yet, though):
226 Makefile and start_kernel() function.
228 2001-04-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
231 get the timeout directive to do something. implemented the global
234 * Fix the efi_main() to deal with the -C option properly
236 2001-04-05 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
238 * update efi library to latest EFI toolkit 1.02 as distributed
239 by Intel. Fixed header + library files to compile with GCC
241 * merged ELI and LILO (as of gnu-efi-1.1) together, mostly
242 taking the config file feature of ELI.
244 * renamed LILO to ELILO to make the distinction
246 * restructured code to make it easier to understand and maintain
248 * fixed FPSWA driver checking and loading: we try all possible
249 files and let the driver itself figure out if it is the most
251 * added support for compression (gzip) but keep support for plain
252 ELF image. ELILO autodetects the format
254 * change the way the kernel is invoked. Now we call it in
255 physical memory mode. This breaks the dependency between the
256 kernel code and the loader. No more lilo_start.c madness.
258 * changed the way the boot_params are passed. We don't use the
259 ZERO_PAGE_ADDR trick anymore. Instead we use EFI runtime memory.
260 The address of the structure is passed to the kernel in r28
263 * released as gnu-efi-2.0
265 2001-04-03 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
267 * gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c (_relocate): Change return type from "void"
268 to "int". Return error status if relocation fails for some
271 * gnuefi/elf_ia32_efi.lds: Drop unneeded ".rel.reloc" section.
273 * gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S (_start): Exit if _relocate() returns with
274 non-zero exit status.
276 * inc/ia32/efibind.h [__GNUC__]: Force 8-byte alignment for 64-bit
277 types as that is what EFI appears to be expecting, despite the
278 "#pragma pack()" at the beginning of the file!
280 2001-03-29 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
282 * gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c: Add a couple of defines to work around
283 libc/efilib collision on uint64_t et al.
284 (_relocate): Use ELF32_R_TYPE() instead of ELFW(R_TYPE)().
286 * gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S (dummy): Add a dummy relocation entry.
288 2001-03-29 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
290 * gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c: Add a couple of defines to work around
291 libc/efilib collision on uint64_t et al.
292 (_relocate): Use ELF32_R_TYPE() instead of ELFW(R_TYPE)().
294 * gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S (dummy): Add a dummy relocation entry.
296 2000-10-26 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
298 * gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Mention .rela.sdata.
300 * Make.defaults (CFLAGS): Remove -nostdinc flags so we can pick
301 up the C compiler's stdarg.h.
303 * inc/stdarg.h: Remove this file. It's not correct for gcc (nor
304 most other optimizing compilers).
306 2000-10-10 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
308 * cleaned up the error message and printing of those.
309 * added support to load the FPSWA from a file in case support is not
310 present in the firmware already
311 * fixed split_args() to do the right thing when you have leading spaces
313 * changed the argify() function to rely on \0 instead of LoadOptionSize
314 as the field seems to be broken with current firmware
315 * bumped version to 1.0
317 2000-10-04 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
319 * gnuefi/reloc_ia64.S: Reserve space for up to 750 function descriptors.
321 * gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Add .sdata section for small data and
322 put __gp in the "middle" of it.
324 * gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia64.S (_start): Use movl/add to load
325 gp-relative addresses that could be out of the range of the addl
327 * gnuefi/reloc_ia64.S (_relocate): Ditto.
329 * apps/Makefile: Remove standard rules and include Make.rules instead.
330 * lilo/Makefile: Ditto.
332 * Make.rules: New file.
334 2000-08-04 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
335 * released version 0.9
336 * incorporated ACPI changes for Asuza by NEC < kouchi@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>
337 * added support for initrd (-i option) original ELI code from Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>)
339 * got rid of #ifdef LILO_DEBUG and uses macro instead
340 * fix a few extra memory leaks in create_boot_params()
341 * added exit capability just before starting the kernel
343 2000-06-22 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
345 * gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Add .srodata, .ctors, .IA64.unwind,
346 .IA64.unwind_info to .data section and .rela.ctors to .rela
349 2000-04-03 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
351 * lilo/lilo.c (LILO_VERSION): Up version number to 0.9.
353 * gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Include .IA_64.unwind and
354 .IA_64.unwind_info in .data segment to avoid EFI load error
355 "ImageAddress: pointer outside of image" error due to the .dynsym
356 relocations against these sections.
358 * ChangeLog: Moved from lilo/ChangeLogs.
360 * gnuefi/reloc_ia64.S: fixed typo: .space directive had constant
361 100 hardcoded instead of using MAX_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS
364 Fri Mar 17 15:19:18 PST 2000 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
367 * replace the getopt.c with new version free with better license
368 * created a documentation file
369 * fix a couple of memory leaks
371 * created a separate directory for lilo in the gnu-efi package.
372 * added support for the BOOT_IMAGE argument to kernel
373 * default is to build natively now
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