boot/freeldr/freeldr/CHANGELOG

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