version revision 1.1 1 $NetBSD: version,v 1.1 2003/04/16 22:36:14 dsl Exp $
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3 NOTE ANY CHANGES YOU MAKE TO THE BOOTBLOCKS HERE. The format of this
4 file is important - make sure the entries are appended on end, last item
5 is taken as the current.
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7 2.0: Change over to Matthias Drochner's two-stage boot system.
8 All code is completely new.
9 2.1: New welcoming banner.
10 2.2: Use common menu / parsing functions with other bootloaders.
11 New framework to pass information to the kernel.
12 2.3: Switch to new NetBSD MBR partition ID.
13 2.4: Support BIOS Int13-Extensions.
14 2.5: Support ustarfs boot.
15 2.6: Support ELF boot.
16 2.7: Support on-the-fly switching of console devices.
17 2.8: Support verbose/quiet boot.
18 2.9: Recognize PS/2 L40 at runtime and use appropriate gate A20
19 initialization (rather than using a compile flag).
20 Recognize ESDI disks and identify them as ed(4) for COMPAT_OLDBOOT.
21 2.10: g/c COMPAT_OLDBOOT
22 2.11: loadfile() update: ELF symbols no longer need backward seeks.
23 2.12: loadfile() update to avoid backwards seeks for ELF Program Headers.
24 2.13: Support boot from 1.44MB floppies in 2.88MB floppy drives.
25 2.14: Add a quirk for BIOSes which report extended memory size
26 in slightly nonstandard way in int15, function 0xE801
27 2.15: Use int15/0xc7 to get memory information on machines which support
28 it, like later IBM PS/2 machines
29 2.16: Move 16bit %ss to allow >64k for code, data and stack
30 Default partition to that passed in by mbr code
31 Support limited filename globbing in 'ls' command
32 Use .code16 and .code32 directives
33 3.0: Separate out into bootxx and boot
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