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2005-12-01 Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
* Applied patch from Fred Yang <fred.yang@intel.com> to support the
vmm= boot option. This option specifies the kernel image for a
virtual machine monitor (aka hypervisor). The vmm= and image=
options are used together to load both the hypervisor kernel and
the guest domain kernel into memory. If a vmm= option is not
specified, elilo defaults to the old behavior of loading and booting
to the image= kernel.
* Added support for compressed image= files when used with the vmm=
option. If the image= file is detected to be gzip compressed, the
image will be uncompressed into memory before it is provided to the
hypervisor. Any combination of compressed and uncompressed images
can be used for the image and vmm options.
2005-09-15 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
* Applied patch from Tristan Gingold to add dcache flush and sync with
icache to gzip and plain loaders. This ommision was just noticed now
due to the much larger caches in Montecito, and the smaller size of
Xen (as compared to the linux kernel).
2004-09-27 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
* Increase the hardcoded size of the texmenu chooser menu from 16 to 64
2004-09-23 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
* Fix for 924147. Thanks to Stephanie Schaaf <sas@sgi.com> for a patch
that the fix is based on.
2004-02-19 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
* Fixed bug where default image initrd would carry over to another
image that was selected interactively (iff the newly selected image
did not have an initrd).
* Added support for subnet-specific config files in netfs.
2004-02-17 Brett Johnson <brett@hp.com>
* integrated ia32 compressed kernel support from Matt Tolentino
<matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
2003-08-20 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* released 3.4
2003-08-19 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* integrated ia32 updates from Matt
Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
2003-08-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* updated elilo.txt and netbooting.txt
* fix a bug in choosers/simple.c:print_infos().
it needs to check if config file path is absolute
when printing filename.
* move definitions of CHAR_SLASH CHAR_BACKSLASH to elilo.h
* fix a bug in read_config() where it would try other
filename even when the user explicitely specified one
via -C, now it fails it that file cannot be opened.
* updated simple chooser set of builtin command keys
* command keys are only valid if first on the line
* increase default buffer size and increment when netbooting
2003-06-04 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fix fs/netfs.c to work with recent version
of EFI (14.61 or higher) which do not have the
TFTP problem anymore. fix submitted by Guy Laborde
2003-04-21 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* ext2fs support is turned off by default to avoid
problems with ext3-formatted partitions.
* added gcc version check. MUST use 3.0 or higher
2003-03-03 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added check on dev_tab in fs/*fs.c:*_uninstall()
2003-02-07 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* clean up in glue_localfs.c w.r.t. CHAR16 in set_default_path()
* added support for extracting basename of bootloader path
when using BOOTP (DHCP) only. The prefix is then used for all files
open via netfs. Suggestion and initial patch by Guy Laborde from HP.
2003-01-28 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fix the set_default_path() routine in glue_localfs.c. It would not
correctly get the basename of the devpath. This caused the
elilo.conf not to be found sometimes.
2003-01-21 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fix bug in glue_netfs.c convert_ip2decstr() which caused some IP
addresses to be incorrectly converted to strings.
2002-11-01 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fix bug in -r option for IA64. There is no argument to this option.
2002-10-15 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fixed a double free bug for the kernel memory in case of abort.
(bug spotted by Levent Akyl from Intel)
* released 3.3a
2002-09-14 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* applied patch from Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> to eliloalt.c.
eliloalt dynamically selects a variable in /proc/efi/vars.
2002-09-12 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* removed extra free() from fs/ext2fs.c:ext2fs_init_state().
Bug report and fix by NOMURA Jun'ichi <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
* rewrote fs/ext2fs.c:read_bytes() to large memory stack buffer which
was bigger than the 128KB limit of EFI causing some weird fimrware
errors. bug reported by OMURA Jun'ichi <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
* on IA-64 forbid the use of f32-f127 by the compiler (EFI spec)
2002-09-10 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fix a bug in argify() that was causing an EFI assertion
when aborting at the elilo prompt when netbooted.
2002-08-26 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fixed devschemes/simple.c to use SPrint() instead of its own buggy
conversion code (spotted by Richard Hirst).
* fix bug in argify() when there was no NULL character in the string.
* released 3.3
2002-08-19 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added fpswa.txt in the docs directory
* updated elilo.txt
2002-08-15 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added -F file option for IA-64 to allow a specific fpswa driver to be loaded
* fixed fpswa.c to try and load the driver from all accessible partitions
* added support to load (plain or gzipped) big-endian ELF/ia64 binaries using p_paddr.
* fixed problem in fs/netfs.c causing large (>4MB) binaries to fail the Mftp() call
2002-06-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* Changed the despecialization character for the variables from \\ to &
to avoid conflicts with \\ as a path separator
2002-06-11 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fixed the return value in efi_main(). elilo was always returning
success even in case of failure. Bug reported by Egan Ford <egan@sense.net>
* applied patch from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> to fix an
initialization bug in choosers/textmenu.c
* applied patch from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> to make elilo
compliant with EFI spec with regards to where it looks for files.
With this patch, elilo will look in the directory it was loaded
from, not on the root of the partition anymore.
2002-03-04 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* released version 3.2
* cleanup some GNU extension in fs/ext2fs.c (variable size array)
* updated all documentation. Added netbooting.txt, simple_chooser.txt,
eliloalt.txt, elilovar.txt
2002-02-21 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added a Linux utility program (elilovar in tools) to set/read/delete
the EliloAlt EFI variable used to specify an alternate kernel to boot.
* rename DBG_PRINT() to DBG_PRT, PRINT_ERR() to ERR_PRT()
* added support for hostname,domain name extraction in fs/netfs.c
* fixed all known bugs in alternate.c
* integrated patch from SGI to fix load offset for relocatable kernels (Jack Steiner, Brent Casavant)
2002-02-21 Michael Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com> and Chris Ahna <christopher.j.ahna@intel.com>
* major update to ia32 support: can now boot 2.4.x, and 2.2.x kernels
2002-02-20 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fixed missing netfs_fd_free() in case of file not found in netfs.c
2002-02-19 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added support for substitution variables (vars.c)
* changed the bootparam structure size back to 4kB
* added support to simple to print final command line option with tab key
* got rid of all the \r characters in strings use only \n (adjust emulator)
* added EFICRT0 variable in Makefile to indicate location of loader script+crt0
2002-02-14 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added support for message= option to simple chooser
* added support for description= option to simple chooser
2002-02-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* choosers/textmenu.c: new textmenu chooser (by rhirst@linuxcare.com) used by Debian
* config.c: added support for dynamic global/per-image option management
* ia64/plain_loader.c,ia64/gzip.c: fix load_offset (<bcasavan@sgi.com>)
* added cmd line (-E) and config option (noedd30) to not set EDD30 EFI variable to
true if not already TRUE (request by Matt_Domsch@dell.com)
* added support for multiple devname schemes and probing
2002-01-31 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* cleaned up alternate.c
* added support for ctrl-U (clear line) in chooser/simple.c
2002-01-25 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* added support for architecture specific config file (elilo-ia64.conf, elilo-ia32.conf).
2002-01-13 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* removed call to Reset() in ext2fs.c
2001-08-17 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* released 3.1
* added support for command line architecture specific options:
sysdeps_get_cmdline_opts(), sysdeps_print_cmdline_opts(),
syspdeps_getopt()
* added IA-64 command line option (-r) for relocation
* fix behavior when kernel specified on command line but prompt
mode was specified in config file. In this case, we now autoboot
and ignore the prompt directive.
* updated elilo.txt
2001-08-15 Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
* fix a bug in config.c:find_option() where it would do
a strXcmp() on a NULL string.
2001-08-01 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fixed bug in fs/netfs.c where it would not handle the small buffer
error correctly. The retry path was not allocating a bigger buffer.
* Global config options are now used if the user specifies a non-label
load target, i.e. a kernel image file.
* added support for architecture dependent config file image options (sys_img_options_t).
* added support for setjmp/longjmp.
* added support for aborting during a compressed load
* added support for user to abort a load of a compressed file.
* added 2 new ia-64 only config file options allowing kernel relocation:
'relocatable' as a global or per image option.
* added support for kernel relocation on memory error. Based on code from
Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>.
* added slash/backslash conversion for filenames on vfat filesystems.
2001-07-23 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* fixed error in netfs.c where the kernel name was not correctly set in
netfs_query_layer()
* fixed to wait_timeout() to correct the problem with the interactive prompt when
return is hit directly when no text
* fixed command line argument destruction problem, now we make a copy of them. This
was affecting elilo when called directly from bootmanager with NVRAM options.
2001-06-28 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* removed W2U() hack to get from wide-char to unicode. Use -fshort-wchar option instead.
* split gnu-efi package in two different packages: the libary+include+crt and the bootloader.
* restructured the fileops module. Now use direct function calls.
* added support for accessing files on different devices.
* fixed a buffer leak in simple_chooser.c. Renamed simple_chooser.c to simple.c.
* created a strops.c file to incorporate all string operations functions.
* added support for ext2fs filesystem.
* restructured code to allow additional filesystems to be added easily.
* cleaned up add-on chooser interface.
* restructured code to use the EFI protocol interface to install filesystems.
* added compile-time options to turn on and off specific filesystems.
* added support for architecture specific configuration options (elilo.conf).
* added fpswa option to IA-64 to designate a fpswa driver file.
* incoporated IA-32 support from Mike Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com>
* incorporated rewritten gzip.c:flush_window() from Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* added interface for custom device naming schemes (devnames directory).
* added support for 2 possible config file (now just on netboot). The first
(primary) choice uses a host specific filename based on the IP address. Suggestion
from Egan Ford <egan@sense.net>.
2001-04-06 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* incorporated patches from David and Michael Johnston at Intel
to get the package to compile for IA-32 linux target.
* Fixed ELILO to compile for Ia-32 (does not execute yet, though):
Makefile and start_kernel() function.
2001-04-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
* Fixed config.c to
get the timeout directive to do something. implemented the global
root= directive.
* Fix the efi_main() to deal with the -C option properly
2001-04-05 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* update efi library to latest EFI toolkit 1.02 as distributed
by Intel. Fixed header + library files to compile with GCC
* merged ELI and LILO (as of gnu-efi-1.1) together, mostly
taking the config file feature of ELI.
* renamed LILO to ELILO to make the distinction
* restructured code to make it easier to understand and maintain
* fixed FPSWA driver checking and loading: we try all possible
files and let the driver itself figure out if it is the most
recent.
* added support for compression (gzip) but keep support for plain
ELF image. ELILO autodetects the format
* change the way the kernel is invoked. Now we call it in
physical memory mode. This breaks the dependency between the
kernel code and the loader. No more lilo_start.c madness.
* changed the way the boot_params are passed. We don't use the
ZERO_PAGE_ADDR trick anymore. Instead we use EFI runtime memory.
The address of the structure is passed to the kernel in r28
by our convention.
* released as gnu-efi-2.0
2001-04-03 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c (_relocate): Change return type from "void"
to "int". Return error status if relocation fails for some
reason.
* gnuefi/elf_ia32_efi.lds: Drop unneeded ".rel.reloc" section.
* gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S (_start): Exit if _relocate() returns with
non-zero exit status.
* inc/ia32/efibind.h [__GNUC__]: Force 8-byte alignment for 64-bit
types as that is what EFI appears to be expecting, despite the
"#pragma pack()" at the beginning of the file!
2001-03-29 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c: Add a couple of defines to work around
libc/efilib collision on uint64_t et al.
(_relocate): Use ELF32_R_TYPE() instead of ELFW(R_TYPE)().
* gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S (dummy): Add a dummy relocation entry.
2001-03-29 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c: Add a couple of defines to work around
libc/efilib collision on uint64_t et al.
(_relocate): Use ELF32_R_TYPE() instead of ELFW(R_TYPE)().
* gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S (dummy): Add a dummy relocation entry.
2000-10-26 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Mention .rela.sdata.
* Make.defaults (CFLAGS): Remove -nostdinc flags so we can pick
up the C compiler's stdarg.h.
* inc/stdarg.h: Remove this file. It's not correct for gcc (nor
most other optimizing compilers).
2000-10-10 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* cleaned up the error message and printing of those.
* added support to load the FPSWA from a file in case support is not
present in the firmware already
* fixed split_args() to do the right thing when you have leading spaces
before kernel name
* changed the argify() function to rely on \0 instead of LoadOptionSize
as the field seems to be broken with current firmware
* bumped version to 1.0
2000-10-04 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* gnuefi/reloc_ia64.S: Reserve space for up to 750 function descriptors.
* gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Add .sdata section for small data and
put __gp in the "middle" of it.
* gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia64.S (_start): Use movl/add to load
gp-relative addresses that could be out of the range of the addl
offset.
* gnuefi/reloc_ia64.S (_relocate): Ditto.
* apps/Makefile: Remove standard rules and include Make.rules instead.
* lilo/Makefile: Ditto.
* Make.rules: New file.
2000-08-04 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* released version 0.9
* incorporated ACPI changes for Asuza by NEC < kouchi@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>
* added support for initrd (-i option) original ELI code from Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>)
* lots of cleanups
* got rid of #ifdef LILO_DEBUG and uses macro instead
* fix a few extra memory leaks in create_boot_params()
* added exit capability just before starting the kernel
2000-06-22 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Add .srodata, .ctors, .IA64.unwind,
.IA64.unwind_info to .data section and .rela.ctors to .rela
section.
2000-04-03 David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
* lilo/lilo.c (LILO_VERSION): Up version number to 0.9.
* gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds: Include .IA_64.unwind and
.IA_64.unwind_info in .data segment to avoid EFI load error
"ImageAddress: pointer outside of image" error due to the .dynsym
relocations against these sections.
* ChangeLog: Moved from lilo/ChangeLogs.
* gnuefi/reloc_ia64.S: fixed typo: .space directive had constant
100 hardcoded instead of using MAX_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS
macro. Duh.
Fri Mar 17 15:19:18 PST 2000 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
* Released 0.8
* replace the getopt.c with new version free with better license
* created a documentation file
* fix a couple of memory leaks
* code cleanups
* created a separate directory for lilo in the gnu-efi package.
* added support for the BOOT_IMAGE argument to kernel
* default is to build natively now