Major changes from 1.0 to 1.1 + Everywhere: Can compile two versions of the code, under gcc or bcc (Bruce Evan's cc), so that 16-bit boot PROMs can be made. See netboot-16/README.16 for more details. + Everywhere: Removed duplicate defines, e.g. everybody defined their own ID for ethernet address size (6). Put IDs for magic numbers in various places. Still some inconsistency, ETH_ and ETHER_ are used. + Everywhere: Added prototypes of functions to netboot.h. Removed unused variables. + Makefiles: Rewritten. + netboot.h: Added define for TFTP_MAX_PACKET = 512. Increased TIMEOUT for tftp packets to 180 (about 10 seconds) so that tftp servers would be able to retransmit blocks. + main.c: Rewrote tftp(). Original was intended to get only one block and the strain on the structure due to modifications was showing. Increased config_buffer size to TFTP_MAX_PACKET+1 to avoid special casing data length=512. + linuxloader.c: Cleaned up the code in some places, especially linux_tftp. Moved the bootp reply block into bss space instead of a fixed location such as 0x90000. + ns8390.c: Removed one bug regarding packet length. packetlen was wrongly shortened when packets wraparound the ring buffer. + 3c509.c: Changed some of the gotos to returns. Removed ARP code since that's already done elsewhere. Removed interrupt enable and Rx early notification (we can't do anything with the packet until it's complete anyway). Major changes from 1.1 to 1.2 + Small bug in makerom.c. Extra semicolon shortened for loop and made double checking code invalid. + Added version identification to startup string. + Gathered external declarations into netboot.h. + New compile time option for netboot-32. If INT19H is not defined, then boot ROM takes control as soon as BIOS scans it. This may solve the problem of some BIOSes not calling the boot ROM at INT19H. This may be when disks are detected by the BIOS, i.e. the machine is not truly diskless. + Added a new program, test.c, for making test ROMs to verify that the BIOS recognises the ROM. + New directory contrib contains contributed code. Currently contains masq by Gerd Knorr: make a boot floppy without DOS comboot-1.0 by Adam J. Richter: also make a boot floppy without DOS. + New mknbi-1.4 from Gero Kuhlmann and Markus Gutschke. This one handles the new bzImage format. Bumped up version to 2.0 because we are so listed in the Linux 2.0 distribution and this would avoid confusion. Major changes from 2.0 to 2.1 + Added LSM for transname-patch to contrib. + Added patch for serial console from Claus Heine . + Claus Heine contributed patches to the 2.0.21/22 kernel sources to allow NFS swap. + Markus Gutschke provided fixes to start2.S so that main can return to the ROM code if user doesn't want to ROM boot. + Added code to main.c to timeout on the prompt and assume Y or N for the answer. Timeout and answer configurable. + Made NE1/2000 probe addresses configurable from Makefile. Fixed up autoscan code. + Made NFS_BOOT a configurable option. By undefining it, only tagged file load is supported but ROMs are under 8k. + ROMSIZE is not used by makerom now. -s flag controls size of ROM at runtime. So don't need to recompile makerom if ROMSIZE changes. + Updated netboot-16 for the latest dev tools from the Linux-MT project. Use the size.c from there. + Got rid of _main() in main.c, instead using #ifdef ELF in start2.S. ELF is preferred now anyway. + Changed bcompare to standard bcmp and reversed sense of result. Reason: to use standard library if available, e.g. Netboot-16. + Common Makefile for 32 bit and 16 versions, with differences in Config files. Major changes from 2.1 to 2.2 + New device driver for the Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0 chipset family. (because of legal problems, this code is currently in the "contrib" directory.) + Added support for loading BOOTP extension files (c.f. RFC1533). + If we have to go thru a gateway, then use the one that has been used for the BOOTP daemon. If the BOOTP daemon is directly accessible, then use the first entry in the "gw" gateway list instead. + For all retries, back off according to RFC951 by randomizing the timeouts and exponentially increasing them until an average of one minute is reached. + Warn if code will not fit into chosen ROM size. Happens only if the autosizing in the Makefile somehow fails. + Modified the code for enabling the A20 gate; this could increase compatibility, but I still have to hear from users. + The copyright message will now reflect, which features have been enabled at compile time. + Added support for selecting different boot images from a menu. As a side effect, this can be used to upgrade the ROM without having to burn a new image (c.f. README.VendorTags). + Display a "message of the day" that is provided by the BOOTP daemon. + The sanity check for detecting a Linux kernel was too strong to properly recognize a 2.1.x kernel; this has been fixed. + Trys to negotiate for 1432 octect blocks, if the TFTP daemon knows about RFC1783. + We can optionally boot from local disk, if the BOOTP server cannot be contacted. + Restructured directories: got rid of netboot-freebsd to reduce confusion with Gero Kuhlmann's netboot, moved documentation to doc and renamed directories to be more in line with Unix conventions. Edited documentation. + Created a dispatch table for NIC routines so that we can include one or more drivers in one binary. Renamed all entry points in the driver sources. Created two new files, config.c, which holds the dispatch table and can be conditionally compiled; and nic.c which contains the extern variables referenced by the drivers. + Automatically decide what size ROM is needed by doing a size and then choosing the correct startup object. Currently caters for 8k, 16k and 32k ROMs. + Optionally include a simple interpreter for ANSI escape sequences. This allows for fancier boot menus. + Remove patches directory which is mostly relevant to 1.x kernels only. Everybody should use 2.x kernels now. If for some reason you need those patches, get an older release of etherboot. + Fix Makefile to work even if . not on PATH. + Sadly, 32 bit ROMs are now > 8kb. We will try to reduce the size by conditionals in a later release. For now, use version 2.1 if your NIC won't take > 8kb ROMs. + Release as 3.0b1 because of the large amount of changes. + Fixed a few problems with the code for ANSI escape sequences and added optional support for displaying graphics. + Optional support for password protected boot images. + Optional support for booting from block devices (floppy, hd). + The bootp server can pass additional parameters to the loaded kernel image (currently, this only applies to Linux) and the user can be allowed to edit a commandline; the latter is optionally protected by a password scheme. + Set the warm-boot flag when the main routine is entered. + Release as 3.0b2 + Added code for updating the FlashCard EPROM over the network (contrib/flashimg). + Added very simple code for turning a ROM image into a network loadable image. This is useful for debugging, but some users without flash EPROMs might appreciate the possibility to load a fully fledged image from a very basic configuration. + Optional support for compressing the ROM images. Please read doc/COPYING.compressor before using this feature. + Sync'd our source tree with Gero's netboot-0.5; this means that you now need the as86 from the ELKs project in order to recompile all of the files. This should not affect normal usage, though. + Added "mknbi-blkdev" for booting from local block devices. + Fixed some bugs in ppmtoansi.c and bootmenu.c + Renamed reference compressor implementation to compressor.exp otherwise make tries to use it and it should not be turned on by default. + Zero'ing BSS in 16-bit version has to be done to _end, not to A0000 because it's executing in a segment, not in flat address space in 16 bit mode. + Ken Yap contributed a quick and dirty Perl script for people who use netboot to test ELKS. So far I'm the only one I know of; maybe the others are silent. :-( + Release as 3.0 Major changes from 3.0 to 3.1 + 4 versions of etherboot can be built for a NIC: .com for testing and .rom for burning into EPROM, and corresponding compressed versions: .lzcom and .lzrom. + The loaders are now separate programs which are prepended to the etherboot binary. This allows them (plain and uncompressing versions) to be maintained separately and gives a bit more RAM to the etherboot code. + No need to define ROMSIZE in the build. makerom automatically discovers the ROM size needed and fills in the size field in the ROM. This simplifies the build procedure. + 16 bit versions use the same loaders as the 32 bit version. Also fixed two bugs in the 16 bit versions: (1) a non-8086 instruction in zloader, (2) setting warm-boot flag in main which zapped some code. + Fixed a documentation bug on the ANSI escape sequences. + Include netboot-0.5.3 distribution from Gero Kuhlmann. + Included some contributions from Dickon.Reed@cl.cam.ac.uk: Running display of Kbytes loaded, line of delimiters after loading complete, a temporary hack to address timing problems with the 3C509, and some Makefile cleanup. The first two changes need to be enabled in Config with defines. + mknbi-blkdev seems to have been left out by Gero Kuhlmann. Add to contrib directory. You probably have to make a symlink to it from the netboot-0.5.2 directory. + Release as 3.1 Major changes from 3.1 to 3.2 + 16 bit version now can load to extended memory, if it exists. On a 8086/8 this will silently fail. + Cleaned up interface between main body of code and NIC drivers. No global variables referenced in NIC driver, everything is passed through a structure. Only the probe function is visible outside, pointers to the others are returned in the structure. + Implemented autoprobe for 3c503. Also simplifies code at same time. + Removed ARP response code in ns8390.c. Don't think we need to respond to ARP requests because other machines will do gratuituous ARP when boot code sends out bootp request. Are there cases where this is not true? Gateways? + Added 1 second timeout to routine that clears the keyboard buffer in case there is no keyboard. + Added a skeleton driver that can be used as a template for new NIC drivers. + ./lzhuf in Makefile so that it will run even if . is not on path. + Fixed comboot to work on 286s also. Won't work yet on 8086/8. + Fixed mknbi-blkdev to configure properly under netboot-0.7. + Added David Munro's PCI code adapted from Linux. Currently has entries for PCI NE2000 clones. Generalised it to probe other PCI cards later on. + Moved twiddle() outside NIC driver except where used to provide a delay. + Fixed bug in Makefile spotted by Ton Biegstraaten. Should prepend ZLOADER to make all.lzcom, not LOADER. + Charlie Brady donated a NE2100 (LANCE) card, so Ken Yap wrote a driver for it. Should work for other LANCE (7990, etc) based cards with some modifications. + Markus Gutschke wrote rom-scan, and it is in contrib/. + Hack rom-scan.c so that a DOS version can be compiled. + Removed all.* targets from Makefile. The NIC specific loaders should be used in preference as the all.* loaders can run out of memory. + Added a disable routine to dispatch table so that cards can be turned off before the loaded code is executed. + Make INT19H the default. + Rogier Wolff persuaded AW computer systems to contribute the Intel EtherExpressPro 100 driver. The binary to hex converter in contrib/ is also from Rogier Wolff. Part of the work is sponsored by BitWizard NL (www.bitwizard.nl). + Distribute with a subset of netboot-0.7.2 that doesn't have the bootrom portion. + Release as 3.2. Major changes from 3.2 to 4.0 + Merged in Vlad Lungu's patches for DHCP support, ifdef'ed by DHCP_SUPPORT. + XID matching fix also provided by Vlad Lungu. + Merged in William Arbaugh's patches to make eepro driver work properly. + Add to contrib/ better bin2intelhex from Jean Marc Lacroix. + Patches from Jim Hague (thanks!) for the following: * Added PIO mode for 3c503 to ns8390.c. Changed the card detection to detect shared memory or PIO and use the selected one, and removed a jumper check that failed on the Bull (no jumpers). * Added more #ifdefs to ns8390.c to include only code relevant to the card being compiled, and removed unnecessary run-time card vendor behaviour branches - it's all now #ifdefd. * Added a -3 parameter to makerom to set the last two bytes to 0x80. These are the values they have in the 3Com Etherboot image that was in the Bull. (Also on the 3c503 card I have - Ken.) Also altered the Makefile to add this parameter when building a 3c503 image. * Modifies lzhuf.c, objdump86.c & size86.c to work on either-endian systems. * Adds a -DT503_AUI config paramter to let you choose AUI or BNC on 3c503s. Previously it defaulted to AUI, and you had to change the code to alter it. * Changed the BCC include directory to /usr/bcc/include. If you use the BCC include files they don't define u_char, u_short etc. I've added these into linuxdef.h, ifdef'd on BCC. * Adds a trivial Linux 3c503 driver patch to the contrib directory to let it spot these 'ere Bull things. + Charlie Brady confirmed that the Lance driver works with PCI so there is a new lancepci driver now. + Removed support for NFS_BOOT; only TFTP booting supported now. + Removed support for linear images; only tagged images supported now. + Removed PRIORIZEBOOTPKERNEL and BOOTPKERNELONLY. Bootp reply must specify kernel name. + Bug fix for 16 bit version of 3c509 driver: sign bit propagation bug. + Revert to non-pausing versions of out[bw] and inb for NEx000 driver because of reports of timimg problems on some cards. + New driver for NI6510. Just a simple tweak of the lance driver for different ID bytes and different register offsets. According to the NI6510 driver in Linux, the NI6510 Etherblaster is more like the NE2100 and would be detected by the NE2100 driver. So use that one instead. + New drivers for 3c507 and NI5210, both of which use the i82586 chip. It works properly for both now. I needed to have enough receive buffers to make sure i82586 never goes into an out of resources state. 3c507 driver has one quirk, it only responds after second bootp request. I seem to remember something about this problem of losing the first packet after initialisation in early Linux discussions. I am also now convinced that Intel designers have weird minds. BTW, NI5210 driver assumes 8k RAM because if you put the ROM on the NIC you can only have 8k RAM. If you are putting the ROM off-board and you want 16k, well, talk to me. + Call nic_disable routine just before jumping to loaded image. This does nothing in most drivers, but may have side effects as the nic_reset routine used to be called instead. + One of those "why I didn't think of it before" ideas: A modified version of comboot, called floppyload, that is prepended to the .rom image rather than the .com image and then both written raw to a floppy for testing the bootrom. All we have to do is jump to an entry point in (z)loader that skips the INT19H stuff. Relocation will happen automatically. Now the .com images and comboot are superfluous, unless one is masochistic enough to want to try to test under DOS. Added .fd0 targets to Makefile. Saying make .fd0 will make floppyload.bin and .rom, and cat both to /dev/fd0. Naturally the drive must be writable and you must have a floppy in the drive. + New driver for Tiara (Fujitsu EtherStar). This was one of the easiest drivers to write. But the chip apparently has some quirks; there is no Linux driver for it in the standard distribution and the email address of someone who wrote an alpha driver is invalid. Perhaps I'll bump into an AT1700 (which has a similar chip) one day and be able to reuse a lot of the code. + Updated contrib/mkelksnbi for ELKS 0.0.68. + Confirmed that the SMC8216 driver works. 8416 not tested, it's a PnP card. Can anybody confirm this? + New contributed software: p910nd, a tiny printer daemon suitable for diskless hosts. + Made ANSIESC work for Etherboot/16. + Fixed Makefile and Config.* so that it works with old binutils. + Included a subset of netboot-0.7.3. + Released as version 4.0. Changes between 4.0 and 4.1 + Patches by Andrew Coulthurst for eepro100b. + Patches by Doug Ambrisko for booting Windows95 after answering N to the boot from network question. Added conditional code to cope with broken DHCP server and TAG 128. + Put version and driver identifier at end of ROM image if it fits, to help identify ROMs in future. + Capture ROM segment address and length to help choose between multiple NICs later. + Don't clear all of memory because it will destroy return address on stack. + Changes to comboot-1.2 (although obsolete) to run on 8088s. + New version 0.2 of p910nd, a non-spooling printer daemon. + Patches by Alex Harin to prepended loaders and makerom to generate PnP ready ROMs. Modified makerom to automatically detect PnP and PCI headers and do the right thing. Added option to change the vendor and device IDs. + Augmented documentation for 2.1 and above kernels. Kernel now wants to mount /tftpboot/ rather than /tftpboot/ as the root FS. + Changed all the outb* and outw calls in drivers (except eepro) to be OUTB* and OUTW, then defined macros to translate to out[bp]* for both Etherboot/32 and Etherboot/16, instead of pasting macros from Linux include files because apparently they've changed in 2.1. At the same time reversed the arguments in start16.S for outb and outw to match the Linux convention. Unfortunately the out[bw] usage came that way from FreeBSD. Someday I'll reverse the arguments in the C files properly. For any new driver writers, you should use the Linux order now. + New contributed utility, disnbi for decoding and extracting network boot images. + Martin Atkins contributed mntnbi for mounting DOS NBIs. + Peter Dobcsanyi contributed vendor and device IDs for the Netvin NE2000/PCI clone. + adam@mudlist.eorbit.net contributed RARP code as alternative to BOOTP/DHCP. Activated by RARP_NOT_BOOTP define. + Added link to Claus-Justus Heine's NFS swap Web page and updated the contrib directory. + Disabled max packet length check in ns8390.c. Caused spurious Bogus packet messages in some cases and doesn't seem that useful a sanity check anyway. + Daniel Engstrom contributed a SMC9000 driver. + Didier Poirot contributed an Etherpower II (EPIC 100) driver. + Added bug fix by Attila Bogár for bootmenu.c and patch to main.c to remove looping menus on failure. Also code for ARP replies and TFTP block retransmit (#ifdefed because controversial). + Code cleanup of tftp and tftpd also by Attila Bogár. + Nathan R. Neulinger fixed a bug with block being declared short instead of u_short in tftpd.c, which limited transfers to 32k blocks. Fixed problem with field tu_block being declared as signed short in many platforms by including fixed version of tftp.h. Fixed tftp also for good measure. + New mini-HOWTO on a "ssh terminal". + Andreas Mack pointed out that eepro100 doesn't compile on 2.1 and 2.2 kernels. Removed unnecessary include of bios32.h and reliance on definition of virt_to_bus in kernel headers in eepro100.c, epic100.c and lance.c. + David Sharp contributed a Tulip driver written for FreeBSD netboot. Ken Yap ported to Etherboot. Not tested yet because no hardware. + Replaced references to arptable[ARP_CLIENT].node to nic->node_addr in eepro100.c and epic100.c as they should be. + Greg Beeley of LightSys Technology Services contributed a 3c905b driver. Be sure to read the release notes in 3c905b.txt. + Günter Knauf suggested making the prompt strings more generic and to put a newline after the answer. Beware, N now means Network boot and not No to network boot. + Alex Nemirovsky contributed some patches for BIOSes that use an extended space at the top of 640k. Also some code for BIOSes that don't implement BIOS32 correctly or at all. + Use PCI extension BIOS header only for PCI cards, all others use legacy extension BIOS header. + Klaus Espenlaub contributed various cleanup patches to the code. Also introduced Rainer Bawidamann's code, see next paragraph. + Rainer Bawidamann contributed a Realtek 8139 driver. + Simplified rules for building .bin files, use -b of as86 so we don't need ld86 or objdump86 now. But later found that a fixed as86 is required. So supply preassembled binaries. The keen hackers can get the fixed tools. + Georg Baum contributed a Schneider & Koch G16 driver. Only the 32 bit version works at the moment; even though the 16 bit version compiles, it won't work because the current code assumes flat memory addressing. Anybody who needs the 16 bit version should feel free to fix it. + Reduce size of ROM image loaded by floppyboot.bin from 64kB to 32kB for a slight speedup in loading. None of the images are even 32kB anyway. + Updated some of the documents in doc/sgml. + Klaus Espenlaub sent in a totally revamped start32.S, using the code16 and code32 directives in recent GNU as (so if this file won't assemble maybe your as version is not recent enough). Also patches to the menu handling code. + jluke@deakin.edu.au sent in a fix for the WD/SMC8013 long ago which I finally got around to verifying. + start16.o and start32.o are supplied for those people who have problems compiling start*.S with as/as86. Released as Etherboot-4.2.0 + One line fix to 3c509b by Greg Beeley for Wake-On-LAN support. + Added patches by Klaus Espenlaub that I forgot. + Made AS_PSEUDOS not the default, assume that people have sufficiently up-to-date GNU as. If not they can uncomment that line. Released as Etherboot-4.2.1 + Disable 3c509 after loading finished or port may be unusable. + Woops, forgot to up the version's last digit in the last release. + Stephan Bauer sent in a device ID for config.c for 21142 chip Tulips. + Ifdef out input overrun recovery code (it's really only needed for NE2000s) and use SHMEM by default for 3c503s to bring the ROM size down below 8kB. + Added code to start32.S to detect < 386 and exit so it doesn't hang the computer. Doesn't print a message yet. + Changed README.sgml to recommend that TFTP use a separate directory from NFS, /tftpdir. Added sample configuration file for DHCPD and caveat about the name of the root directory when using DHCPD. + Revamped atnetboot.sgml: use mtools most of the time, write about a few example applications. + Quick Perl script for converting bootptab to dhcpd.conf. Released as Etherboot-4.2.2 + Forgot to put new version of src/start32.o. Not urgent though, the extra code only guards against Etherboot/32 being executed on < 386. + Supply version preassembled start32.o with ANSIESC and FLOPPY defined for those with a deficient as. Define dummy handleansi routine in ansiesc.c so that it will still link even if this start32.o is used. + Edited *.asm so that they can be assembled by either as86 (ELKS version) or nasm. + Changed Makefile so that one can choose between no as86, as86 or nasm. + Added Mark Burazin's conditional code for Compex RL2000 PCI NIC. + Increase delay during probe phase to 10ms as 1ms is too low for some 3c509 boards. Donald Becker's Linux driver hints that > 2ms is needed to be safe. Also call t509_disable in case board was active. + Update README.sgml date and version. Released as Etherboot 4.2.3. + rtl8139.c: Reduce the number of transmit buffers to reduce footprint. Remove polling loop in *_loop(), caller already does the looping. + main.c: Fix code indentation in bootp(). + Small corrections to documentation. Released as Etherboot 4.2.4. + Matthias Meixner found a longstanding bug in rtl8139.c where it was testing the wrong bit for the existence of a packet in the buffer. + Added paragraph to documentation about caveats for hosting NFS root on a different architecture. Released as Etherboot 4.2.5. + Updated mklnim for RH6.0 which uses a different floppy image and requires 'network' to be appended to kernel parameters. + Reversed sense of #ifdef DHCP_SUPPORT to #ifndef NO_DHCP_SUPPORT and so forth, i.e. the default is with DHCP support. + Suggest reducing options for rtl8139 driver to minimise footprint in release notes. + Jim McQuillan provided changes to support the SMC1211, which uses the RTL8139 chip. + Changed lret in start32.S to int $0x19 so that it doesn't depend on the return location being there. Released as Etherboot 4.2.6 + Succeeded in booting FreeDOS with the kernel in the tagged image rather than on the ramdisk, i.e. the boot process jumps directly to the kernel in memory. The utility is mkfreedosnbi in contrib/. + Additions to the documentation. Released as Etherboot 4.2.7 + Matt Hortman pointed out that the BIOS clock value returned by INT1AH rolls over at midnight, causing delay loops that cross midnight to fail. Fix was to keep track of midnight crossings in currticks so that currticks' return value is monotonically increasing. + Added paragraph to documentation about editing PCI vendor and device IDs in Makefile if needed. + Merged in FreeBSD support code supplied by Doug Ambrisko. Thanks! Released as Etherboot 4.2.8 + Cleaned up the FreeBSD support in osloader.c. Symbols to use in Config are to select image type, not FreeBSD specific now. + Added simple signature checking code in floppyload.asm in case somebody forgets to append a ROM image or tries to load a non-ROM image. + Merged in 3c90x and multiple PCI bus support by Steve Smith. Thanks! + Included NT-Diskless-Terminal HOWTO by Pavel Tkatchouk. + Included snapshot of H. Peter Anvin's rewrite of tftp. + Combined tftp and tftpd directories, and touched up Makefile to reflect normal Linux install directories. Released as Etherboot 4.2.9 + NT-Diskless-Terminal HOWTO renamed to Diskless-From-NT. + One line fix to mknbi-dos to recognise FAT16 filesystems as legal. Updated first.S in mknbi-dos so that it can be assembled by nasm and is also suitable for FreeDOS with the right define. Still backward compatible with as86. Bug fix at line starting getnm3:. + Updated first.S in mknbi-linux so that it can be assembled by nasm also. + Locate bootp data block at 0x93C00-0x93FFF to free up 1024+ bytes in [0x98000-0x9FFFF]. Etherboot/32 only, business as usual for Etherboot/16. + Patch from Attila Bogár to make CONGESTED a compile option for TFTP_TIMEOUT. Also corrected spelling of his name in README. + Fixed start32.S to assemble correctly with gas version 2.95. Must define GAS295 in CFLAGS. + Add contrib/3c90xutil containing a utility for handling 3c90x EEPROMs in situ. + Update p910nd to 0.3. client.pl now checks if hostname is known and uses more convenient routines from Socket module. + Moved the Flashcard directory into a separate package as it's of limited interest. Released as Etherboot 4.2.10 + Fixed bug introduced in 4.2.10 in code for handling bootp extension files. + Change in 3c90x.c so that it can compile under FreeBSD. + Patch to tulip.c from Nick Lopez to handle Macronix 98715 (Tulip clone). Released as Etherboot 4.2.11 + Prefer RFC1533_GATEWAY to giaddr for routing tftp packets. + Print out both relay address and gateway address. + Stored arptable ipaddrs in network byte order. Makes everything simpler and we can get rid of convert_ipaddr. Now %I in printf and inet_ntoa have to deal with NBO. We reduce the footprint by ~100 bytes. + Renamed setip to more standard inet_ntoa and change argument type to suit, using in_addr. + Replaced bcmp by memcmp, bzero by memset, and bcopy by memcpy. Allows us to use optimised versions in inline assembler. + Replaced OUTB and OUTW by outb and outw with arguments reversed. Finally all the out macros are the same form as for Linux. + Replaced \r\n and \n\r in output strings with \n since putchar now prints \r before \n. Then changed printf("\n") to putchar('\n'). Like Unix convention for strings now. + Got rid of test.c and Makefile rules connected with it. + Added patch to eepro100.c by Matt Hortman to correct PCI latency. + Merged in Marty Connor's ntulip.c. Now supports Macronix 98715 and Linksys LNE100TX. Released as Etherboot 4.2.12 + Anders Larsen contributed mkQNXnbi, for generating tagged images from QNX kernels. + Bernd Wiebelt contributed code to request vendor tags in DHCP. + Fixed more bugs introduced in 4.2.10 in code for handling bootp extension files. Released as Etherboot 4.2.13 + Marty Connor reduced RTL8139 footprint by using only one transmit buffer instead of 4. Now RTL8139 is reliable. + Moved initialised data declaration from ns8390.h to ns8390.c. + Contributed utilities for wake-on-LAN: wol.c (Bob Edwards) and wake.pl. + Makefile for 3c90xutil/romutil.c. -O is essential when compiling. + Happy year 2000! Released as Etherboot 4.4.0 + VIA-Rhine driver contributed by Paolo Marini. Footprint reduced by Marty Connor. + Netgear FA310TX (Tulip clone, LC82C168 chip) support added by Marty Connor. + Support for 3C905C added by Marty Connor. + mklnim updated to support SuSE 6.x also. Released as Etherboot 4.4.1 + New configuration file scheme to specify what ROMs are built. + Adam Fritzler contributed 3c529 (MCA version of 3c509) support in driver. + Marty Connor wrote a version of 3c90xutil/romutil for 905C NICs. + Günter Knauf contributed a wake on LAN CGI script. + Notes in contrib/eepro100notes on how to flash the EEPROM. + Happy Australia Day, 2000-01-26. Released as Etherboot 4.4.2 + hwilmer@gmx.de found a probe error in 3c507.c, shouldn't mask memory size with 0xffffL, this fails with 64kB memory. Also changed to use real-time-clock to timeout on initialisation of i82586 rather than relying on decrementing a variable (which is CPU speed dependent). + James Pearson pointed out that ~ should be escaped as ˜ in vendortags.sgml. Also cleaned up the 8-bit characters while I was at it. + Günter Knauf pointed out that if ASK_BOOT is defined, then key input echos twice. Also, CR doesn't select the default. Problem was that getchar converts all \r to \n then main.c was testing against \r instead of \n, and also that getchar() was echoing when it should leave it to the caller. Deleted code from getchar() and made it a function with no arguments. Also sent me a new version of mp-form.pl with mp-form.txt. Also suggested the good idea that the gateway and relay fields not be displayed if they are not used. + Bob Edwards sent in patches to ntulip.c to autodetect 100 Mb media for 21142/3 NICs. + Okuji Yoshinori found a small bug in main.c: for (retry1 = 0; retry < .. Don't know what effect it had. + Klaus Espenlaub sent patches which make the RTL8139 driver more reliable, see notes in rtl8139.c. + Russ Nelson gave permission to release cs89x0 driver with Etherboot. It's normally under GPL. Moved cs89x0 driver to src directory, removed cs89x0.sgml. + Clarified copyrights of files in distribution. Released as Etherboot 4.4.3 + Klaus Espenlaub sent in some patches to overcome the 64K block rollover problem in tftp. + Bob Edwards, Paul Mackerras and Marty Connor worked out fixes to ntulip.c to handle 21142/3 Tulips properly. + Karsten Tinnefeld sent in a Makefile fragment for doc/sgml/Makefile to generate DVI and PS files using sgml2latex. + tulip.* renamed to otulip.*, ntulip.* renamed to tulip.* + Added FAQ and Writing an Etherboot Driver sections to README. + Woops, if and of swapped in dd command in atnetboot.sgml. Released as Etherboot 4.4.4 + FUKUHARA Makoto supplied a patch for 4.4.4 for FreeBSD ELF booting with large tftp blocks which I missed putting in. + Small patch by Marty Connor to tulip.c to handle fast Tulips better. + Wrote small loader to load images from .com files. + Shusuke Nisiyama contributed a 3c595 (and may work for 3c590) driver. Released as Etherboot 4.4.5