reactos/boot/freeldr/freeldr/CHANGELOG

   1 Changes in v2.0.0 (02/07/2005) (alex ionesco)
   2
   3 - PE loading of ntoskrnl.exe
   4 - Work on 3GB support
   5 - w32api conversion
   6
   7 Changes in v1.8.26 (10/30/2004) (chorns)
   8
   9 - Print stack frames on crashes.
  10 - Users should report errors to ros-dev@reactos.com.
  11
  12 Changes in v1.8.25 (10/30/2004) (chorns)
  13
  14 - Support FULL_MAP command line option.
  15 - Allow DEBUG to be set on command line.
  16
  17 Changes in v1.8.24 (09/20/2004) (hbirr)
  18
  19 - Implemented the driver loading by the sequence of tag entries
  20   in the GroupOrderList key.
  21
  22 Changes in v1.8.23 (30/08/2004) (ekohl)
  23
  24 - Fixed some compiler warnings.
  25 - Detect and report PCI-BIOS.
  26
  27 Changes in v1.8.22 (21/05/2004) (navaraf)
  28
  29 - Fixed lots of bugs in NTFS code and added correct update sequence
  30   fixups handling and untested NTFS 3+ sparse file support.
  31
  32 Changes in v1.8.21 (21/05/2004) (navaraf)
  33
  34 - Experimental NTFS reading support with no boot code yet.
  35 - Adjusted detection timeouts for PS/2 and RS232 to the minimum
  36   allowed by the specifications.
  37 - Enabled the 'Press any key to boot from CD' message in the ISO
  38   boot code and show it only when some hard disk is present.
  39
  40 Changes in v1.8.20 (21/05/2004) (navaraf)
  41
  42 - Added support for special value "LiveCD" of SystemPath option
  43   for loading ReactOS. It uses the known boot drive information
  44   as the boot path.
  45
  46 Changes in v1.8.19 (12/20/2003) (ekohl)
  47
  48 - Detect PS/2 Port and Pointer Device (Mouse).
  49 - Calculate CPU speed.
  50 - Fixed delay counter overrun.
  51
  52 Changes in v1.8.18 (12/14/2003) (ekohl)
  53
  54 - Detect serial ports and serial pointer devices (Mice/Trackballs)
  55
  56 Changes in v1.8.17 (10/19/2003) (ekohl)
  57
  58 - Ignore case of registry key and value names
  59
  60 Changes in v1.8.16 (10/12/2003) (ekohl)
  61
  62 - Renamed a lot of variables and functions in the registry
  63 - Fixed buggy cell size calculation
  64
  65 Changes in v1.8.15 (8/29/2003) (chorns)
  66
  67 - Add top-level makefile
  68 - Add fdebug/.cvsignore
  69 - Don't use rdel to remove files in tools/Makefile
  70 - Remove warning in freeldr/mm/meminit.c
  71
  72 Changes in v1.8.14 (8/10/2003) (chorns)
  73
  74 - Clear screen to black when booting ReactOS
  75
  76 Changes in v1.8.13 (6/05/2003) (brianp)
  77
  78 - Added support for booting Linux 2.4.x kernels
  79 - i386 exception handler now reports FreeLoader version number
  80
  81 Changes in v1.8.12 (5/25/2003) (ekohl)
  82
  83 - Added .inf-file parser
  84 - SetupLdr loads and uses txtsetup.sif
  85 - Removed .hiv (text-hive) parser
  86
  87 Changes in v1.8.11 (4/30/2003) (ekohl)
  88
  89 - Added DiskGetExtendedDriveParameters()
  90 - Moved hardware detection into the arch directory
  91 - Rewrote/completed harddisk detection
  92 - Removed PCI and IDE detection
  93 - Added basic CPU detection
  94
  95 Changes in v1.8.10 (4/27/2003) (chorns)
  96
  97 - Query BIOS for supported disk drives
  98
  99 Changes in v1.8.9 (4/25/2003) (chorns)
 100
 101 - Detect PCI busses
 102 - Detect IDE controllers and devices
 103 - Improved RegEnumValue()
 104
 105 Changes in v1.8.8 (4/25/2003) (ekohl)
 106
 107 - Added memmove().
 108 - Added hardware hive export.
 109
 110 Changes in v1.8.7 (4/22/2003) (brianp)
 111
 112 - Added a file system recognizer to get around problems where
 113   the partition id did not match the file system type.
 114
 115 Changes in v1.8.6 (4/14/2003) (brianp)
 116
 117 - Fixed a bug in fathelp.asm where is wasn't adding the hidden sector
 118   count before performing a subtraction.
 119
 120 Changes in v1.8.5 (4/10/2003) (ekohl)
 121
 122 - Added support for binary system hive.
 123
 124 Changes in v1.8.4 (4/5/2003) (chorns)
 125
 126 - Added DOS compatible Master Boot Record (MBR)
 127
 128 Changes in v1.8.3 (3/18/2003) (brianp)
 129
 130 - Added _alloca() function because Mingw32 generates code that needs it
 131 - Defined _mainCRTStartup in fathelp.asm because Mingw32 looks for that symbol
 132
 133 Changes in v1.8.2 (1/24/2003) (ekohl)
 134
 135 - Relaxed check for Int13-Extension support.
 136   Some BIOSes have a strange opinion about what is supported. :-/
 137
 138 Changes in v1.8.1 (1/20/2003) (ekohl)
 139
 140 - Fixed the ISO filesystem detection code.
 141 - Removed IsSetupLdr.
 142
 143 Changes in v1.8 (1/18/2003) (brianp)
 144
 145 - Added F8 options menu
 146 - Added custom Boot functionality
 147 - Moved all OS= settings from [FreeLoader] section to [Operating Systems] section.
 148 - Removed MessageLine= setting. MessageBox= now accepts "\n" as an escape character for newlines.
 149 - Added descriptions for disk error codes returned by the BIOS.
 150 - Device names like "fd0" and "hd0" and "hd1" as well as BIOS drive numbers can now be used as BootDrive= settings.
 151
 152 Changes in v1.7.12 (12/05/2002) (brianp)
 153
 154 - Minor tweak to UI code to allow description
 155   text to be displayed along with the progress
 156   bar.
 157
 158 Changes in v1.7.11 (12/05/2002) (brianp)
 159
 160 - Added memory map count to GetBiosMemoryMap() so that
 161   it doesn't just assume the size of the array.
 162 - Fix so that we use the continuation value that
 163   the BIOS returns.
 164
 165 Changes in v1.7.10 (11/24/2002) (brianp)
 166
 167 - Added assembler versions of memcmp() memcpy() memset()
 168 - Implemented Int386() so that real-mode interrupts can be called from C-code
 169 - Removed unnecessary call in DbgPrint() macro (freeldr.sys is ~16k smaller now)
 170 - 64-bit lba sector addressing for disk calls
 171 - Re-coded biosdisk.S as i386disk.c
 172 - Re-coded mem.S as i386mem.c
 173 - Re-coded rtlcode.S as i386rtl.c
 174 - Cleaned up i386trap.S so that it only saves the registers once.
 175 - Re-coded biosvid.S as i386vid.c
 176 - Video fade in/out
 177 - VESA text modes supported now
 178 - Offscreen buffering to remove flicker
 179 - Standardized format of boot sector so that BootPartition is stored right before 0xaa55
 180 - Prefixed all file system functions with 'Fs'
 181
 182 Changes in v1.7.9 (9/30/2002) (brianp)
 183
 184 - Fix for bug in BiosInt13ReadExtended() (biosdisk.S)
 185   by Christophe Bothamy & Mike Lerwill
 186
 187 Changes in v1.7.8 (9/7/2002) (ekohl)
 188
 189 - Added new 'bootcd' target.
 190 - Removed/disabled debugging code.
 191 - SetupLdr must not call BiosInt13ExtensionsSupported to check
 192   extended int13 capabilities because they are already used to
 193   boot a CD and some BIOSes return incorrect results when a CD-ROM
 194   drive is checked.
 195
 196 Changes in v1.7.7 (9/5/2002) (ekohl)
 197
 198 - fs/iso.c: Got iso-fs working again.
 199 - reactos/setupldr.c: Implemented very simple setup loader.
 200
 201 Changes in v1.7.6 (8/31/2002) (ekohl)
 202
 203 - bootsect/isoboot.asm: Reduced read transfer size to ensure that
 204   the read buffer for an int13/ah=42h (exended read) does not
 205   cross a segment boundary.
 206 - freeldr.c, bootmgr.c, setupldr.c, makefile: Renamed
 207   LoadBootManager() and ReactOSRunSetupLoader() to RunLoader().
 208   Either bootmgr.o or setupldr.o is used to build freeldr.sys or
 209   setupldr.sys
 210
 211 Changes in v1.7.5 (8/21/2002) (brianp)
 212
 213 - biosvid.S (BiosVideoDisableBlinkBit): Added code to
 214   disable the blink bit in the text mode character
 215   attribute byte so that the full range of
 216   background colors can be used.
 217
 218 Changes in v1.7.4 (8/20/2002) (brianp)
 219
 220 - Boot sector code now reports to freeldr.sys the partition
 221   that it was installed on. This is specified by a byte
 222   value in the boot sector code. By default the boot partition
 223   is set to zero which indicates the active (bootable)
 224   partition, unless the installer sets the value to non-zero.
 225   If FreeLoader is installed on a partition other than
 226   the active (bootable) partition then the installer must
 227   set this byte to that partition number. Otherwise
 228   FreeLoader will not be able to find freeldr.ini.
 229 - i386trap.S: Added debug macros BREAKPOINT(),
 230   INSTRUCTION_BREAKPOINTX(), MEMORY_READWRITE_BREAKPOINTX(), &
 231   MEMORY_WRITE_BREAKPOINTX().
 232 - partition.c (DiskGetPartitionEntry): Add the relative offset
 233   of the extended partition to the partitions start sector.
 234 - ext2.c (Ext2ReadBlockPointerList, Ext2CopyIndirectBlockPointers,
 235   Ext2CopyDoubleIndirectBlockPointers, Ext2CopyTripleIndirectBlockPointers):
 236   Rewrote the block pointer functions so they actually work.
 237 - ini_init.c (IniFileInitialize, IniOpenIniFile): Looks for freeldr.ini
 238   on both the active (bootable) partition and the partition
 239   passed in from the boot sector code.
 240 - meminit.c (MmInitializeMemoryManager, MmFixupSystemMemoryMap,
 241   MmGetEndAddressOfAnyMemory, MmGetAddressablePageCountIncludingHoles,
 242   MmInitPageLookupTable): Fixed bug that would cause FreeLoader to
 243   have an off-by-one error when accessing the last entry in the
 244   page lookup table on systems with 4GB of memory (or memory mapped
 245   at the end of the address space).
 246
 247 Changes in v1.7.2 (8/7/2002) (brianp)
 248
 249 - Fragment size must be equal to the block size
 250
 251 Changes in v1.7.1 (8/7/2002) (brianp)
 252
 253 - Symbolic links on EXT2/3 are now supported
 254
 255 Changes in v1.7 (8/6/2002) (brianp)
 256
 257 - EXT2/EXT3 file system support.
 258 - Does not yet support symbolic links or booting from an EXT2/3 partition.
 259 - Fixed bug in UI code.
 260 - Added '%%' format specifier to printf()-like functions.
 261 - Added functions __udivdi3 & __umoddi3 so that 64-bit division is now supported.
 262 - Changed types BYTE, WORD, DWORD, LONG, ULONG to U8, U16, U32, S32, U32
 263   so that you know the size of the variable across different
 264   architectures with different sized words & dwords, etc.
 265 - Types CHAR, UCHAR, PCHAR, PUCHAR, WCHAR, PWCHAR have not been
 266   changed yet (I haven't decided exactly how I'm going to handle unicode)
 267
 268 Changes in v1.6.2 (7/28/2002) (brianp)
 269
 270 - Fix for GetFatEntry16 bug (fathelp.asm) by Mike Lerwill
 271
 272 Changes in v1.6.1 (7/22/2002) (brianp)
 273
 274 - Fix for disk caching while doing drive remapping
 275
 276 Changes in v1.6 (7/21/2002) (brianp)
 277
 278 - Added BIOS drive mapping functionality
 279
 280 Changes in v1.5 (7/13/2002)
 281
 282 - If symbols are available then pass them to the OS as multiboot modules
 283
 284 Changes in v1.4 (6/27/2002)
 285
 286 - Added separate configuration for a SETUPLDR version
 287
 288 Changes in v1.3.1 (6/8/2002)
 289
 290 - Implemented MmAllocateMemoryAtAddress()
 291 - Fixed Linux boot code to go through the memory manager to allocate memory at 1MB
 292
 293 Changes in v1.3 (6/5/2002)
 294
 295 - Added protected mode exception handling in case FreeLoader crashes
 296 - Reworked memory manager to use all of extended memory
 297 - Reworked UI code, now supports multiple text-mode resolutions
 298
 299 Changes in v1.2.2 (5/4/2002)
 300
 301 - Fixed memory leak in menu.c
 302
 303 Changes in v1.2.1 (5/3/2002)
 304
 305 - Makefile updates
 306 - Optimized the Makefile
 307 - Removed recursive make functionality (builds much faster now)
 308 - Places all output into one single directory
 309 - Added automagically generated dependencies
 310
 311 Changes in v1.2 (4/30/2002)
 312
 313 - All Linux kernels are supported (zImage & bzImage, loaded high & low)
 314 - Initrd support
 315 - FreeLoader now compiles under Mingw32 instead of just DJGPP, but
 316   the Mingw32 linker seems to output a corrupt binary.
 317
 318 Changes in v1.01 (4/28/2002)
 319
 320 - Fixed FAT short file name buffer overflow that was causing
 321   some long filenames not to work correctly.
 322
 323 Changes in v1.0 (4/24/2002)
 324
 325 - FreeLoader version 1.0!
 326 - Supports booting ReactOS
 327 - Supports booting Linux bzImage kernels
 328 - No initrd support (yet)
 329 - No zImage support (yet)
 330 - No ext2 file system support (yet)
 331 - Supports FAT & ISO-9660 file systems
 332 - Forward slashes '/' as well as backslashes '\' can be used
 333   for path names in FAT & ISO-9600
 334 - Fixed bug in LBA code where it was only reading one sector
 335   even if you asked for more
 336 - Fixed bug in FAT code, was also present in ISO-9660 code where
 337   it wasn't incrementing the buffer address correctly