freeldr/freeldr/CHANGELOG

   1 Changes in v1.5 (7/13/2002)
   2
   3 - If symbols are available then pass them to the OS as multiboot modules
   4 - Added separate configuration for a SETUPLDR version
   5
   6 Changes in v1.4 (6/27/2002)
   7
   8 - Added separate configuration for a SETUPLDR version
   9
  10 Changes in v1.3.1 (6/8/2002)
  11
  12 - Implemented MmAllocateMemoryAtAddress()
  13 - Fixed Linux boot code to go through the memory manager to allocate memory at 1MB
  14
  15 Changes in v1.3 (6/5/2002)
  16
  17 - Added protected mode exception handling in case FreeLoader crashes
  18 - Reworked memory manager to use all of extended memory
  19 - Reworked UI code, now supports multiple text-mode resolutions
  20
  21 Changes in v1.2.2 (5/4/2002)
  22
  23 - Fixed memory leak in menu.c
  24
  25 Changes in v1.2.1 (5/3/2002)
  26
  27 - Makefile updates
  28 - Optimized the Makefile
  29 - Removed recursive make functionality (builds much faster now)
  30 - Places all output into one single directory
  31 - Added automagically generated dependencies
  32
  33 Changes in v1.2 (4/30/2002)
  34
  35 - All Linux kernels are supported (zImage & bzImage, loaded high & low)
  36 - Initrd support
  37 - FreeLoader now compiles under Mingw32 instead of just DJGPP, but
  38   the Mingw32 linker seems to output a corrupt binary.
  39
  40 Changes in v1.01 (4/28/2002)
  41
  42 - Fixed FAT short file name buffer overflow that was causing
  43   some long filenames not to work correctly.
  44
  45 Changes in v1.0 (4/24/2002)
  46
  47 - FreeLoader version 1.0!
  48 - Supports booting ReactOS
  49 - Supports booting Linux bzImage kernels
  50 - No initrd support (yet)
  51 - No zImage support (yet)
  52 - No ext2 file system support (yet)
  53 - Supports FAT & ISO-9660 file systems
  54 - Forward slashes '/' as well as backslashes '\' can be used
  55   for path names in FAT & ISO-9600
  56 - Fixed bug in LBA code where it was only reading one sector
  57   even if you asked for more
  58 - Fixed bug in FAT code, was also present in ISO-9660 code where
  59   it wasn't incrementing the buffer address correctly