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+* 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.
+###