freeldr/freeldr/CHANGELOG

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