[syslinux] 6.03-pre changelog initial attempt
Ady
ady-sf at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 17 13:22:17 PDT 2014
The following is a first attempt to list the current change log for
Syslinux 6.03. The final stable version, whenever it will be
released, might include additional items.
I would appreciate feedback regarding:
_ Any item that should be added.
_ Any item that should be edited in any way.
_ Any item that should not be included.
_ Any credit that should be added or corrected.
_ Any wrong or inadequate credit.
_ Any relevant additional information for final users that should be
included in the change log.
_ Corrections? Improvements? Typos? Wording? Style? Anything?
TIA,
Ady.
Changes in 6.03:
* chain: Fix chainloading on 6.02 (Raphael S. Carvalho).
* core: do not leak the __lowmem and __bss16 macros to modules;
hide them so modules will not use them.
* load_linux: Do not use size heuristic for non-relocatable
kernels, for zImage kernels and for non-Linux kernels.
* PXELINUX: Fix the SENDCOOKIES feature for HTTP
(Russel Santillanes).
* gnu-efi: Add gnu-efi as a submodule.
* ANSI: Support color tables with more than 256 entries
(James Buren).
* EFI: Fix displayed version; add DATE (Gene Cumm)
* PXELINUX, EFI: Fix bad read of file size over TFTP on EFI64
(Sylvain Gault).
* Fix hand over to kernel:
"Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" error.
* ISOLINUX: EDX, LBA values higher than 65535; work around for
buggy BIOS, where the system would hang, would reboot, or
would show a "Disk error 01, AX=42" message.
* core/legacynet: Enable dot quad resolution (Gene Cumm).
* diag/geodsp improvements (Gene Cumm).
* DOS: Fix syslinux.com DOS-based installer.
* Improve gcc 4.3.0 compatibility.
* syslxint: fix compilation on non-x86 architectures.
* localboot: Fix "localboot 0x80" and similar cases.
* Add memset() calls prior to any intcall() and other mem fixes;
specially relevant for older hardware and/or buggy BIOS.
* poweroff.c32: fixes (Gene Cumm).
* HDT: Fix memory leak in CLI (Felipe Pena).
* ACPI: Remove memset of buffer; make things clearer but also
prevents some compilation warnings (Erwan Velu).
* Add manpages for isohybrid, memdiskfind
(Peter Jones, Gene Cumm).
* ISOLINUX: Experimental Rock Ridge support (Thomas Schmitt).
* comapi: Remove the comapi interfaces.
* EFI: Fixes on PE files and OVMF compatibility
(Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
* EFI: updates and fixes for gnu-efi (Sylvain Gault, Gene Cumm).
* BIOS: fix low memory check.
* Filesystem UUID to SYSAPPEND bit 0x40000 for FAT and ext2
(Serj Kalichev).
* Makefiles: Export the firmware type as a cpp variable.
Additional improvements. Fix "make spotless".
* core, BIOS: Move __syslinux_shuffler_size to assembly.
Actually get the shuffler size sanely. Fix booting recent
Syslinux versions on certain hardware and on certain
virtualization software (e.g. QEMU 0.11.1, VirtualBox 4.2.x).
* lua: Upgrade to v.5.2.3 (Ferenc Wágner) and additional fixes.
* chainload: Fixes to chain.c32 and pxechn.c32.
* NTFS: Make byte_shift a constant.
* NTFS: Incorrect parsing of file runs (Andy Alex).
* core, BIOS: Incorrect detection of EDD (Andy Alex).
* core: Avoid initializing the cache more than once
(Raphael S. Carvalho).
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