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3 . 1 0 R E L E A S E N O T E S
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BUILD NOTES
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====================
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You will need the following toolchain to build elilo-3.10 from source
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the elilo build environment is optimized for Debian and Debian based distros.
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1. gnu-efi3.0d or greater, elilo-3.10 binaries were built with gnu-efi3.0e-2
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shipping in Lenny
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2. gcc-4.1.1 or greater, elilo-3.10 binaries were built with:
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x86 -> 4.2.3-1ubuntu6
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x86_64 -> 4.2.3-1ubuntu6
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ia64 -> 4.3.2-1.1
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3. binutils-2.17.50.0.14 or greater, elilo-3.10 binaries were built with:
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x86 -> 2.18.1-cvs20080103-0ubuntu1
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x86_64 -> 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1
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ia64 -> 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7
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* if you use a debian based (lenny)build environment you will have no problems
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and setting it up is simple. you will be able to build elilo in 3 steps:
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1. apt-get install gnu-efi, gcc, binutils
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2. apt-get source elilo (or download elilo-3.10.tar.gz from SourceForge.)
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3. cd ./elilo-3.10 and type make
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** If you use the upstream tarballs for the toolchain you will need to move
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some files around.
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GNU-EFI (provides the efi 1.10 and uefi 2.x libraries & api)
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-------
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gnu-efi libraries are installed to /usr/local/lib by the
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upstream gnu-efi source package. elilo expects them to be in system location
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/usr/lib. efi includes may be located in /usr/local/include/efi. elilo
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expects them to be in system location /usr/include/efi.
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BINUTILS (provides the elf conversion utility to produce efi bins)
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--------
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likewise objcopy may be installed to /usr/local/bin by binutils,
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elilo source expects it to be in /usr/bin.
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ELILO ON EFI X86_64
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HARD REQUIREMENTS
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Elilo/x86_64 requires efi64 enabled linux kernel i.e. 2.6.21 or newer
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nothing earlier will work, 2.6.21 was the earliest kernel that efi64
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support went into. You need to compile the kernel with CONFIG_EFI
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kernel option ON.
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x86_64 platforms with UEFI 2.0 firmware deprecate UGA protocol
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and therefore only the Graphics Output Protocol (GOP) is supported. For
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such platforms, the kernel must be compiled with EFI_FB option ON. This
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will enable early boot messages on the console. Elilo for x86_64
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attempts to query EFI for GOP support and if it fails it defaults to
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text mode which may or may not show you early console ouput depends on
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your efi and physical setup. If efi default console ouput is set to
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serial and you dont have anything attached to the serial port then youre
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not going to see messages from elilo, duh.
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WORKING ELILO.CONF FOR EFI X86_64 EXAMPLE
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Here is my elilo.conf from my UEFI2.0/x86_64 workstation which uses GOP.
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shows me console output, what elilo is doing, and kernel boot.
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default=UBUNTU
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chooser=simple
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verbose=5
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delay=30
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append="root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31e splash showopts"
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image=/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic
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label="UBUNTU"
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description="Ubuntu 2.6.24-23-generic kernel"
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initrd=/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-generic
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CHANGES FROM 3.8 TO 3.10
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Patch contributions from David Lombard @ Intel and Stuart Hayes @ Dell
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thank you.
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* added PTR_FMT 32bit & 64bit pointer translation for correct output
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* elilo hang bugfix x86_64 non-standard kernels with non-traditional start
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address elilo will pull the start address from the kernel elf header for 2.6
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or newer kernels, map memory and use that start address, else use standard
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1MB default start address. And handle case of overlapping kernels
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and initrds in memory.
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* ported kernel start adress and memory overlap handling to ia32
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* eliminated all possible compiler warnings except those actually
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caused by gnu-efi that cant be fixed here.
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* Debug output improvement, added pauses with visual feedback when
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user sets debug or verbose options.
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* bugfix added missing find_bits function definition back into ia32
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subtree
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* bugfix loader_probe now correctly errors out if no loaders
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registered.
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