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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.
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