From 0c4f85f6512a4a5088add6b34a3883209b7e57cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:37:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Fix unclarity and language mistakes. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ NEWS | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d57ca56e8..df1e3ce43 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2012-06-27 Vladimir Serbinenko +2012-06-27 Jordan Uggla + + * NEWS: Fix unclarity and language mistakes. + 2012-06-27 Vladimir Serbinenko * grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c (find_efi_mmap_size): Increase diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0a4d8572b..f9b06ab48 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ New in 2.00: * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot. * Plan9. * Freedos. - * Ntldr/bootmgr (Windows bootloader). - * chainloader --bpb support. + * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader). + * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct + wrong partition offset. * PXE chainloading support. * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support. @@ -72,8 +73,8 @@ New in 2.00: * Testing and debugging: * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid - * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly check that directory is - read correctly. + * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that + a directory is read correctly. * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only) * Disk cache statistics gathering. * GDB stub and GDB support script. @@ -82,19 +83,21 @@ New in 2.00: * New `time' command. * Performance: - * Lazy scanning for improved performance. + * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used. + This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning. * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory. - * Search hints for better performance. + * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a + device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases. * Internationalisation: * Updated to Unicode 6.0. - * $"..." syntax for translation in grub script. This allows easy + * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy translation of grub.cfg at runtime. * Translations to many languages included in official distribution. * Scripting: * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform - on runtime. + at runtime. * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features. * Use of ids to identify menu entries. * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus @@ -118,7 +121,8 @@ New in 2.00: * Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain. -* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on runtime. +* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of + any grub utility. New in 1.99: