boot/freeldr/freeldr/CHANGELOG

   1 Changes in v3.0+ (01/05/2015) (hbelusca)
   2
   3 - Remove support for special value "LiveCD" of SystemPath option
   4   for loading ReactOS since now we treat non-ARC SystemPath as
   5   a path relative to the boot path.
   6
   7 Changes in v3.0.0 (11/12/2007) (fball)
   8
   9 - Support for building an ARC Tree.
  10 - Removal of registry write code.
  11 - Removal of HARDWARE registry building code.
  12 - Working WinLDR branch for booting NT4.
  13
  14 Changes in v2.5.0 (??/??/2007) (ion)
  15
  16 - Memory layout fixes to support NT boot
  17 - Refactor PTE/PDE setup code
  18 - Identity mapping support
  19 - Set 0x80000000 as kernel base address, and all physical addresses with the high bit off (KSEG0_BASE) so that physical->virtual translation can be done with an OR.
  20
  21 Changes in v2.1.0 (??/??/2006) (ion)
  22
  23 - PE loading fixups and full NT-style driver loading
  24
  25 Changes in v2.0.0 (02/07/2005) (ion)
  26
  27 - Remove Multi-boot booting of ReactOS
  28
  29 Changes in v1.8.26 (10/30/2004) (chorns)
  30
  31 - Print stack frames on crashes.
  32 - Users should report errors to ros-dev@reactos.com.
  33
  34 Changes in v1.8.25 (10/30/2004) (chorns)
  35
  36 - Support FULL_MAP command line option.
  37 - Allow DEBUG to be set on command line.
  38
  39 Changes in v1.8.24 (09/20/2004) (hbirr)
  40
  41 - Implemented the driver loading by the sequence of tag entries
  42   in the GroupOrderList key.
  43
  44 Changes in v1.8.23 (30/08/2004) (ekohl)
  45
  46 - Fixed some compiler warnings.
  47 - Detect and report PCI-BIOS.
  48
  49 Changes in v1.8.22 (21/05/2004) (navaraf)
  50
  51 - Fixed lots of bugs in NTFS code and added correct update sequence
  52   fixups handling and untested NTFS 3+ sparse file support.
  53
  54 Changes in v1.8.21 (21/05/2004) (navaraf)
  55
  56 - Experimental NTFS reading support with no boot code yet.
  57 - Adjusted detection timeouts for PS/2 and RS232 to the minimum
  58   allowed by the specifications.
  59 - Enabled the 'Press any key to boot from CD' message in the ISO
  60   boot code and show it only when some hard disk is present.
  61
  62 Changes in v1.8.20 (21/05/2004) (navaraf)
  63
  64 - Added support for special value "LiveCD" of SystemPath option
  65   for loading ReactOS. It uses the known boot drive information
  66   as the boot path.
  67
  68 Changes in v1.8.19 (12/20/2003) (ekohl)
  69
  70 - Detect PS/2 Port and Pointer Device (Mouse).
  71 - Calculate CPU speed.
  72 - Fixed delay counter overrun.
  73
  74 Changes in v1.8.18 (12/14/2003) (ekohl)
  75
  76 - Detect serial ports and serial pointer devices (Mice/Trackballs)
  77
  78 Changes in v1.8.17 (10/19/2003) (ekohl)
  79
  80 - Ignore case of registry key and value names
  81
  82 Changes in v1.8.16 (10/12/2003) (ekohl)
  83
  84 - Renamed a lot of variables and functions in the registry
  85 - Fixed buggy cell size calculation
  86
  87 Changes in v1.8.15 (8/29/2003) (chorns)
  88
  89 - Add top-level makefile
  90 - Add fdebug/.cvsignore
  91 - Don't use rdel to remove files in tools/Makefile
  92 - Remove warning in freeldr/mm/meminit.c
  93
  94 Changes in v1.8.14 (8/10/2003) (chorns)
  95
  96 - Clear screen to black when booting ReactOS
  97
  98 Changes in v1.8.13 (6/05/2003) (brianp)
  99
 100 - Added support for booting Linux 2.4.x kernels
 101 - i386 exception handler now reports FreeLoader version number
 102
 103 Changes in v1.8.12 (5/25/2003) (ekohl)
 104
 105 - Added .inf-file parser
 106 - SetupLdr loads and uses txtsetup.sif
 107 - Removed .hiv (text-hive) parser
 108
 109 Changes in v1.8.11 (4/30/2003) (ekohl)
 110
 111 - Added DiskGetExtendedDriveParameters()
 112 - Moved hardware detection into the arch directory
 113 - Rewrote/completed harddisk detection
 114 - Removed PCI and IDE detection
 115 - Added basic CPU detection
 116
 117 Changes in v1.8.10 (4/27/2003) (chorns)
 118
 119 - Query BIOS for supported disk drives
 120
 121 Changes in v1.8.9 (4/25/2003) (chorns)
 122
 123 - Detect PCI busses
 124 - Detect IDE controllers and devices
 125 - Improved RegEnumValue()
 126
 127 Changes in v1.8.8 (4/25/2003) (ekohl)
 128
 129 - Added memmove().
 130 - Added hardware hive export.
 131
 132 Changes in v1.8.7 (4/22/2003) (brianp)
 133
 134 - Added a file system recognizer to get around problems where
 135   the partition id did not match the file system type.
 136
 137 Changes in v1.8.6 (4/14/2003) (brianp)
 138
 139 - Fixed a bug in fathelp.asm where is wasn't adding the hidden sector
 140   count before performing a subtraction.
 141
 142 Changes in v1.8.5 (4/10/2003) (ekohl)
 143
 144 - Added support for binary system hive.
 145
 146 Changes in v1.8.4 (4/5/2003) (chorns)
 147
 148 - Added DOS compatible Master Boot Record (MBR)
 149
 150 Changes in v1.8.3 (3/18/2003) (brianp)
 151
 152 - Added _alloca() function because Mingw32 generates code that needs it
 153 - Defined _mainCRTStartup in fathelp.asm because Mingw32 looks for that symbol
 154
 155 Changes in v1.8.2 (1/24/2003) (ekohl)
 156
 157 - Relaxed check for Int13-Extension support.
 158   Some BIOSes have a strange opinion about what is supported. :-/
 159
 160 Changes in v1.8.1 (1/20/2003) (ekohl)
 161
 162 - Fixed the ISO filesystem detection code.
 163 - Removed IsSetupLdr.
 164
 165 Changes in v1.8 (1/18/2003) (brianp)
 166
 167 - Added F8 options menu
 168 - Added custom Boot functionality
 169 - Moved all OS= settings from [FreeLoader] section to [Operating Systems] section.
 170 - Removed MessageLine= setting. MessageBox= now accepts "\n" as an escape character for newlines.
 171 - Added descriptions for disk error codes returned by the BIOS.
 172 - Device names like "fd0" and "hd0" and "hd1" as well as BIOS drive numbers can now be used as BootDrive= settings.
 173
 174 Changes in v1.7.12 (12/05/2002) (brianp)
 175
 176 - Minor tweak to UI code to allow description
 177   text to be displayed along with the progress
 178   bar.
 179
 180 Changes in v1.7.11 (12/05/2002) (brianp)
 181
 182 - Added memory map count to GetBiosMemoryMap() so that
 183   it doesn't just assume the size of the array.
 184 - Fix so that we use the continuation value that
 185   the BIOS returns.
 186
 187 Changes in v1.7.10 (11/24/2002) (brianp)
 188
 189 - Added assembler versions of memcmp() memcpy() memset()
 190 - Implemented Int386() so that real-mode interrupts can be called from C-code
 191 - Removed unnecessary call in DbgPrint() macro (freeldr.sys is ~16k smaller now)
 192 - 64-bit lba sector addressing for disk calls
 193 - Re-coded biosdisk.S as i386disk.c
 194 - Re-coded mem.S as i386mem.c
 195 - Re-coded rtlcode.S as i386rtl.c
 196 - Cleaned up i386trap.S so that it only saves the registers once.
 197 - Re-coded biosvid.S as i386vid.c
 198 - Video fade in/out
 199 - VESA text modes supported now
 200 - Offscreen buffering to remove flicker
 201 - Standardized format of boot sector so that BootPartition is stored right before 0xaa55
 202 - Prefixed all file system functions with 'Fs'
 203
 204 Changes in v1.7.9 (9/30/2002) (brianp)
 205
 206 - Fix for bug in BiosInt13ReadExtended() (biosdisk.S)
 207   by Christophe Bothamy & Mike Lerwill
 208
 209 Changes in v1.7.8 (9/7/2002) (ekohl)
 210
 211 - Added new 'bootcd' target.
 212 - Removed/disabled debugging code.
 213 - SetupLdr must not call BiosInt13ExtensionsSupported to check
 214   extended int13 capabilities because they are already used to
 215   boot a CD and some BIOSes return incorrect results when a CD-ROM
 216   drive is checked.
 217
 218 Changes in v1.7.7 (9/5/2002) (ekohl)
 219
 220 - fs/iso.c: Got iso-fs working again.
 221 - reactos/setupldr.c: Implemented very simple setup loader.
 222
 223 Changes in v1.7.6 (8/31/2002) (ekohl)
 224
 225 - bootsect/isoboot.asm: Reduced read transfer size to ensure that
 226   the read buffer for an int13/ah=42h (extended read) does not
 227   cross a segment boundary.
 228 - freeldr.c, bootmgr.c, setupldr.c, makefile: Renamed
 229   LoadBootManager() and ReactOSRunSetupLoader() to RunLoader().
 230   Either bootmgr.o or setupldr.o is used to build freeldr.sys or
 231   setupldr.sys
 232
 233 Changes in v1.7.5 (8/21/2002) (brianp)
 234
 235 - biosvid.S (BiosVideoDisableBlinkBit): Added code to
 236   disable the blink bit in the text mode character
 237   attribute byte so that the full range of
 238   background colors can be used.
 239
 240 Changes in v1.7.4 (8/20/2002) (brianp)
 241
 242 - Boot sector code now reports to freeldr.sys the partition
 243   that it was installed on. This is specified by a byte
 244   value in the boot sector code. By default the boot partition
 245   is set to zero which indicates the active (bootable)
 246   partition, unless the installer sets the value to non-zero.
 247   If FreeLoader is installed on a partition other than
 248   the active (bootable) partition then the installer must
 249   set this byte to that partition number. Otherwise
 250   FreeLoader will not be able to find freeldr.ini.
 251 - i386trap.S: Added debug macros BREAKPOINT(),
 252   INSTRUCTION_BREAKPOINTX(), MEMORY_READWRITE_BREAKPOINTX(), &
 253   MEMORY_WRITE_BREAKPOINTX().
 254 - partition.c (DiskGetPartitionEntry): Add the relative offset
 255   of the extended partition to the partitions start sector.
 256 - ext2.c (Ext2ReadBlockPointerList, Ext2CopyIndirectBlockPointers,
 257   Ext2CopyDoubleIndirectBlockPointers, Ext2CopyTripleIndirectBlockPointers):
 258   Rewrote the block pointer functions so they actually work.
 259 - ini_init.c (IniFileInitialize, IniOpenIniFile): Looks for freeldr.ini
 260   on both the active (bootable) partition and the partition
 261   passed in from the boot sector code.
 262 - meminit.c (MmInitializeMemoryManager, MmFixupSystemMemoryMap,
 263   MmGetEndAddressOfAnyMemory, MmGetAddressablePageCountIncludingHoles,
 264   MmInitPageLookupTable): Fixed bug that would cause FreeLoader to
 265   have an off-by-one error when accessing the last entry in the
 266   page lookup table on systems with 4GB of memory (or memory mapped
 267   at the end of the address space).
 268
 269 Changes in v1.7.2 (8/7/2002) (brianp)
 270
 271 - Fragment size must be equal to the block size
 272
 273 Changes in v1.7.1 (8/7/2002) (brianp)
 274
 275 - Symbolic links on EXT2/3 are now supported
 276
 277 Changes in v1.7 (8/6/2002) (brianp)
 278
 279 - EXT2/EXT3 file system support.
 280 - Does not yet support symbolic links or booting from an EXT2/3 partition.
 281 - Fixed bug in UI code.
 282 - Added '%%' format specifier to printf()-like functions.
 283 - Added functions __udivdi3 & __umoddi3 so that 64-bit division is now supported.
 284 - Changed types BYTE, WORD, DWORD, LONG, ULONG to U8, U16, U32, S32, U32
 285   so that you know the size of the variable across different
 286   architectures with different sized words & dwords, etc.
 287 - Types CHAR, UCHAR, PCHAR, PUCHAR, WCHAR, PWCHAR have not been
 288   changed yet (I haven't decided exactly how I'm going to handle unicode)
 289
 290 Changes in v1.6.2 (7/28/2002) (brianp)
 291
 292 - Fix for GetFatEntry16 bug (fathelp.asm) by Mike Lerwill
 293
 294 Changes in v1.6.1 (7/22/2002) (brianp)
 295
 296 - Fix for disk caching while doing drive remapping
 297
 298 Changes in v1.6 (7/21/2002) (brianp)
 299
 300 - Added BIOS drive mapping functionality
 301
 302 Changes in v1.5 (7/13/2002)
 303
 304 - If symbols are available then pass them to the OS as multiboot modules
 305
 306 Changes in v1.4 (6/27/2002)
 307
 308 - Added separate configuration for a SETUPLDR version
 309
 310 Changes in v1.3.1 (6/8/2002)
 311
 312 - Implemented MmAllocateMemoryAtAddress()
 313 - Fixed Linux boot code to go through the memory manager to allocate memory at 1MB
 314
 315 Changes in v1.3 (6/5/2002)
 316
 317 - Added protected mode exception handling in case FreeLoader crashes
 318 - Reworked memory manager to use all of extended memory
 319 - Reworked UI code, now supports multiple text-mode resolutions
 320
 321 Changes in v1.2.2 (5/4/2002)
 322
 323 - Fixed memory leak in menu.c
 324
 325 Changes in v1.2.1 (5/3/2002)
 326
 327 - Makefile updates
 328 - Optimized the Makefile
 329 - Removed recursive make functionality (builds much faster now)
 330 - Places all output into one single directory
 331 - Added automagically generated dependencies
 332
 333 Changes in v1.2 (4/30/2002)
 334
 335 - All Linux kernels are supported (zImage & bzImage, loaded high & low)
 336 - Initrd support
 337 - FreeLoader now compiles under Mingw32 instead of just DJGPP, but
 338   the Mingw32 linker seems to output a corrupt binary.
 339
 340 Changes in v1.01 (4/28/2002)
 341
 342 - Fixed FAT short file name buffer overflow that was causing
 343   some long filenames not to work correctly.
 344
 345 Changes in v1.0 (4/24/2002)
 346
 347 - FreeLoader version 1.0!
 348 - Supports booting ReactOS
 349 - Supports booting Linux bzImage kernels
 350 - No initrd support (yet)
 351 - No zImage support (yet)
 352 - No ext2 file system support (yet)
 353 - Supports FAT & ISO-9660 file systems
 354 - Forward slashes '/' as well as backslashes '\' can be used
 355   for path names in FAT & ISO-9600
 356 - Fixed bug in LBA code where it was only reading one sector
 357   even if you asked for more
 358 - Fixed bug in FAT code, was also present in ISO-9660 code where
 359   it wasn't incrementing the buffer address correctly