1 1.18 mrg $NetBSD: version,v 1.18 2024/09/20 05:53:43 mrg Exp $ 2 1.1 dsl 3 1.1 dsl NOTE ANY CHANGES YOU MAKE TO THE BOOTBLOCKS HERE. The format of this 4 1.1 dsl file is important - make sure the entries are appended on end, last item 5 1.1 dsl is taken as the current. 6 1.1 dsl 7 1.1 dsl 2.0: Change over to Matthias Drochner's two-stage boot system. 8 1.1 dsl All code is completely new. 9 1.1 dsl 2.1: New welcoming banner. 10 1.1 dsl 2.2: Use common menu / parsing functions with other bootloaders. 11 1.1 dsl New framework to pass information to the kernel. 12 1.1 dsl 2.3: Switch to new NetBSD MBR partition ID. 13 1.1 dsl 2.4: Support BIOS Int13-Extensions. 14 1.1 dsl 2.5: Support ustarfs boot. 15 1.1 dsl 2.6: Support ELF boot. 16 1.1 dsl 2.7: Support on-the-fly switching of console devices. 17 1.1 dsl 2.8: Support verbose/quiet boot. 18 1.1 dsl 2.9: Recognize PS/2 L40 at runtime and use appropriate gate A20 19 1.1 dsl initialization (rather than using a compile flag). 20 1.1 dsl Recognize ESDI disks and identify them as ed(4) for COMPAT_OLDBOOT. 21 1.2 lukem 2.10: g/c COMPAT_OLDBOOT. 22 1.1 dsl 2.11: loadfile() update: ELF symbols no longer need backward seeks. 23 1.1 dsl 2.12: loadfile() update to avoid backwards seeks for ELF Program Headers. 24 1.1 dsl 2.13: Support boot from 1.44MB floppies in 2.88MB floppy drives. 25 1.1 dsl 2.14: Add a quirk for BIOSes which report extended memory size 26 1.2 lukem in slightly nonstandard way in int15, function 0xE801. 27 1.1 dsl 2.15: Use int15/0xc7 to get memory information on machines which support 28 1.2 lukem it, like later IBM PS/2 machines. 29 1.2 lukem 2.16: Move 16bit %ss to allow >64k for code, data and stack. 30 1.2 lukem Default partition to that passed in by mbr code. 31 1.2 lukem Support limited filename globbing in 'ls' command. 32 1.1 dsl Use .code16 and .code32 directives 33 1.1 dsl 3.0: Separate out into bootxx and boot 34 1.2 lukem 3.1: Rename to /usr/mdec/boot. 35 1.2 lukem Leave space in bootxx for FAT32 BPB and MBR partition table. 36 1.2 lukem Keep MBR's existing BPB and partition table when installing bootxx. 37 1.3 thorpej 3.2: Add support for passing boot wedge information to the kernel. 38 1.4 junyoung 3.3: Add support for cd9660 file system. 39 1.6 ad 5.0: Support for boot menu, modules. 40 1.7 perry 5.1: Change boot messages to replace build date with kernel version. 41 1.8 joerg 5.2: Support for multiboot. 42 1.9 ad 5.3: Autoload kernel module for root file system. 43 1.10 jmcneill 5.4: The VESA VBE mode number is now passed to the kernel so it can be 44 1.10 jmcneill restored on ACPI resume. 45 1.11 jakllsch 5.5: Adjust stack and heap areas to not overlap. 46 1.12 jakllsch 5.6: GUID Partition Table support. 47 1.13 jakllsch 5.7: Recognize 64-bit LBA from bootxx. 48 1.14 jmcneill 5.8: Support for splash images. 49 1.15 jmcneill 5.9: VESA VBE/DDC EDID support. 50 1.16 jmcneill 5.10: Support for using raw file-system images as memory disks. 51 1.17 maxv 5.11: Support for booting KASLR amd64 kernels. 52 1.18 mrg 5.12: Support for partition labels, recursive labels inside RAID partitions, 53 1.18 mrg booting a directory with kernel and modules, MultiBoot 2, not using 54 1.18 mrg the default menu options from prompt "boot" command, new "root" 55 1.18 mrg command that changes default root, bi-endian support in disklabel, 56 1.18 mrg RAID and UFS, fixes for buggy ACPI implementations, and ASCII art. 57