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@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +* 2.0 + - In purgatory added -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss to prevent issues with + recent versions of gcc + - Add an option to configure to disable zlib support + - Add mismatched architecture support + - Updated the x86 architecture help + - Updated the x86_64 architecture help + - Fixed bzImage support + - Added support for finding either the highest or lowest usable window. + - Change the version number to 2.0 to reflect the major change in + the code base. 1.99 was effectively the release canidate. +* 1.99 + - Rearchitect so the code is maintainable. + - Add multiboot support + - Add ia64 support + - Add beoboot image support + - Create generic elf loader code. + - Created the relocated shared object purgatory to hold + the code that runs between kernels. + - Added a configure script + - Added an rpm target + - Added kexec on panic support + - Initial stab at adding documentation + - Added loader support for ET_DYN objects +* 1.98 + - Add mysteriously dropped changes to make x86_64 work + - Update the distclean target to remove *.orig and *~ files +* 1.97 + - Add support for cross compiling x86_64 +* 1.96 + - add x86_64 support + - add support for linux style arguments to the elf32-x86 loader + - disable clearing of cr4 on x86 +* 1.95 + - add kexec-zImage-ppc64.c source file + - GameCube/PPC32 sync'ed to 1.94 + - use syscall() to call sys_kexec_load() and reboot() + - add kexec-syscall.h, remove kexec-syscall.c + - makefiles know about ARCH-es + - add noifdown kexec option (Albert Herranz) +* 1.94 + - revert a bad 1.92 change (not setting optind & opterr for subsequent + calls to getopt_long()) +* 1.93 + - restored "shutdown" functionality; + - more help/usage text clarification; + - add GPLv2 license to source files (with permission from Eric Biederman) +* 1.92 + - my_kexec(): call kexec() only one time; + - add "unload" option; + - fix some compiler warnings about "<var> might be used uninitialized"; + - commented out shutdown capability since it was unreachable; +* 1.91 + - fix "-t" option: strcmp() was inverted (Albert Herranz) + - check specified kernel image file for file type (Albert Herranz) +* 1.9 + - change reboot function to return type long (was int) + - use kexec reserved syscall numbers (in Linux 2.6.6-mm3) +* 1.8 + - Fixed bug where ramdisk wasn't loaded when specified + - Memory information is now read from /proc/iomem. + Information that is not needed is ignored. +* 1.7 + - Update to new tentative syscall number.... +* 1.6 + - Redo all of the command line arguments. + - Use the 32-bit kernel entry point. + - Work around a failure to clear %cr4. +* 1.5 + - Port to a new kernel interface (Hopefully the final one). + - Start working on setting up legacy hardware + - Add --load and --exec options so the parts can be done at different times. +### |