X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=yaboot.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=changelog;h=fbb890bfa60173213098112aed004fed47ca6a9d;hp=7b393232c50dc2ab031cc10524f79a5975c51371;hb=436ce9a1a5e9f7158dd61608c51913ecfacbb16e;hpb=bad5757ade771cb803eea778f61da9a4ff74b87e diff --git a/changelog b/changelog index 7b39323..fbb890b 100644 --- a/changelog +++ b/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,180 @@ +2004-07-11 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.13 + + * ofpath: Fix several errors going to stdout rather then stderr. + + * ybin: Detect broken /dev/nvram better. + + * yabootconfig: + - Support initrd. + - Support LABEL= and UUID= in /etc/fstab (Colin Watson). + + * yaboot: Support ~6MB kernels for tftp (this is maxed out for yaboot1). + +2004-04-17 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.12 + + * ofpath: Support for 2.6 kernels (2.6.3 or later required). + + * yaboot-howto: Add caveat regarding OSX UFS filesystems + (Thanks to Brian Sammon, and to Stefan Pfetzing for the German + translation). + +2003-11-20 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.11 + + * Support new Apple G5 PowerMacs. + + * ofpath: Bugfix to properly support IDE add-on cards. + +2003-02-26 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.10 + + * ofpath: Apple apparently can't decide whether its called `ata' + or `ide'; fix support for early iMac models. + +2003-02-12 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.9 + + * Mark first stage bootloader as compatible with new MacOS9 + incompatible PowerMacs. + + * Really fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than + one type 0x83 partition. + +2002-12-09 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.8 + + * ofpath: Support new Xserve and Windtunnel PowerMacs. + - NOTE: For this to fully work it requires a sufficiently recent + kernel. + + * Prefer $PATH_PREFIX/usr/sbin/ofpath if it exists. + + * yabootconfig: Add append="video=ofonly" if the running kernel + was booted with it, only if user does not specify --kernel-args. + +2002-9-28 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.7 + + * Documentation: + - Add German translation of yaboot-howto. + - Small updates to yaboot-howto. + - No longer tell people to send bugs to benh in yabootconfig(8). + + * yaboot: + - Fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than + one type 0x83 partition. + - Fix possible reiserfs symlink resolution failure. + + * yabootconfig: + - Fix corner case /etc/fstab parsing failure. (Debian bug#156742). + + * Small build system modifications (mostly to accommodate the use of + the arch revision control system. + + * yaboot now includes two changelogs: "ChangeLog" which is a + detailed automatically generated list of changes, and "changelog" + (this file) which is a hand written understandable summary of + changes between releases. + +2001-12-01 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.6 + + * The "IBM needs to test prereleases" release. + + * Documentation: + - New IGNORE^H^H^H^H^H^HREADME, thanks to Chris Tillman for + cleaning up the pile of cruft that this thing was. + - yabootconfig man page was missing --kernel-args from SYNOPSIS. + - Include README.rs6000 in the binary dist. + + * ybin: + - Automatically use fstype=raw on IBM CHRP, it no longer needs + to be explicitly set in /etc/yaboot.conf. + - Deprecate ybin's yaboot.conf auto-generation, use yabootconfig + instead. + + * yaboot: + - Fix IBM CHRP support. + - Fix device path parsing to support devices containing a comma, + but not including a filename. + - Add support for zImage.initrd (Peter Bergner). + - help output no longer claims device=NULL if yaboot.conf does not define it. + - Make password prompting a bit nicer looking. + - Short penalty delay on incorrect passwords. + +2001-10-28 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.5 + + * Add yaboot-howto, Thanks to Chris Tillman. + + * yaboot: + - XFS fixes for large partitions (Brendan O'Dea). + - Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot. + - Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney). + - Implement the message= configuration option (see yaboot.conf man page). + +2001-10-13 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.4 + + * ybin: Correct a verbosity message. + + * yaboot: + - Add SGI XFS filesystem support. + - Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes + many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading. + - Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert + path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use + kludges like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux. + - Fix kernel loading on some systems. + - Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a + bootpd/dhcpd. + - Fix netboot when using the `n' key. + - Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause + yaboot crashes. + - Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and + report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not + found'). + - Make configuration file open error consistent with other file + open errors. + - Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information. + - Add non-fatal warning when bootstrap partition has wrong type (pmac only). + - Minor code rearrangement. + - General cruft removal and code cleanup. + + * Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable. + +2001-09-25 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.3 + + * Add --debug option to yabootconfig + + * Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics + have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin + will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap + partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot + menu will then execute "ofwboot ,/bsd" this means + the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition. + +2001-09-24 Ethan Benson + + * Version 1.3.2 + + * Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if + /etc/yaboot.conf already existed. + 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson * Version 1.3.1