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Debian Changelog arcboot (0.3.8.8)

2006

arcboot (0.3.8.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-Maintainer Upload, with maintainer consent.
   * scripts/arcboot:
     + Fix syntax error when $IMAGE isn't found (closes: #329111).
   * debian/control:
     + Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2 (no changes).
     + Added ${misc:Depends} to arcboot's Depends, to get the debconf
       dependency.
   * Added spanish debconf translation, courtesy of César Gómez Martín
     (closes: #333875).
   * Added swedish debconf translation, courtesy of Daniel Nylander
     (closes: #331295).
   * Fixed po/ja.po Content-Type (seems to be UTF-8 instead of EUC-JP ?)

 -- Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:34:48 +0000

2005

arcboot (0.3.8.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add vietnamese translation, thanks Clytie Siddall (Closes: #313114).
   * Add czech translation, thanks Miroslav Kure (Closes: #317662).
   * Switch from the local e2fslib to the up-to-date libext2fs-nopic.a
     in Debian, but don't delete the old version for now.
   * Avoid inclusion of kernel headers.

 -- Thiemo Seufer <ths@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:15:35 +0200

arcboot (0.3.8.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Allow ELF64 kernels for tip22/tip32.

 -- Thiemo Seufer <ths@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:51:01 +0100

arcboot (0.3.8.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add da debconf translation by Morten Brix Pedersen, thanks
     (Closes: #276691).
   * Add tip32 for IP32 machines.
   * Rework build system.
   * Vastly improved loader performance, thanks Keith Wesolowski.

 -- Thiemo Seufer <ths@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:24:00 +0100

2004

arcboot (0.3.8.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * fix compilation with gcc-3.3 for tip22 also (Closes: #273951)
   * mention IP32 in arcboots package description

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:45:11 +0200

arcboot (0.3.8.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * fix IP32/O2 subarch detection again, I hate /proc/cpuinfo changes
   * the 'de' debconf translation was in the last upload already
     (Closes: #250572)
   * finally tested it on IP32 myself and it work{s,ed}
   * fixup linker script to work with gcc-3.3 too

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:32:38 +0200

arcboot (0.3.8.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * /usr/sbin/arcboot uses file so depend on it (Closes: #236970)
   * add nl debconf translation by Luk Claes, thanks (Closes: #244632)

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:30:14 +0200

arcboot (0.3.8.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * correct subarch detection for IP32

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:01:14 +0100

arcboot (0.3.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * add support to load 64bit kernels (by Vivien Chappelier and Ilya Volynets)
   * hack up makefile to allow for easier per subarch builds
   * debian/rules: build and include arcboot.ip32 in the package.
   * modify arcboot script to select the correct arcboot.subarch when
     putting the loader in the volume header
   * use ext2_fs.h from e2fslib instead of linux/ext2fs.h to not depend
     on kernel headers
   * add pt translation by Bruno Rodrigues, thanks (Closes: #216392)
   * add pt_BR translation by Andre Luis Lopes, thanks (Closes: #228285)
   * add ja translaton by Hideki Yamane, thanks (Closes: #234087)

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:42:06 +0100

2003

arcboot (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * postinst: call arcboot after arcboot.conf was created
   * /usr/sbin/arcboot: abort if we don't find a configuration file
   * fix typo in control file, thanks to Julien Blache <jblache at debian.org>,
     (Closes: #192810)
   * use po-debconf, patch by Christian Perrier <bubulle at ebian.org>, thanks!
     (Closes: #205819)
   * add French translation, thanks again Christian! (Closes: #206586)
   * fix "Upstream Authors(s)" in copyright file
   * reformat debian/control to 80 characters
   * bump Standards-Version to 3.6.1

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:53:20 +0200

arcboot (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * fix command line handling, now things like
     	boot linux root=/dev/sda1 single
     should work as expected, no need to mess with OSLoadOptions
   * fix booting arbitrary files
   	boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sda1
     will now properly boot OSLoadPartition/vmlinux
   * search for OSLoadPartition if the envvar is bogus
   * add missing prototypes, cleanup printf length modifiers
   * move some common definitions to subarch.h
   * use gcc-2.95
   * adding other 32bit IPs to arcboot is now a two line change
     in common/subarch.h
   * arcboot script now prints what it's doing
   * postrm: silent grep on new installs
   * echo 4 > debian/compat
   * Build-Depend: on debhelper (>=4)
   * Bump Standards Version to 3.5.9
   * add ${misc:Depends}

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:01:14 +0200

2002

arcboot (0.3.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * relax arcboots ELF check to make it recongnize kernels built with
     newer binutils
   * make strcpy copy the trailing '\0', thanks to Florian Lohoff for the patch
   * compile version number from changelog into arcsboot/tip22
   * spelling fixes
   * minor debian/rules cleanup

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:06:36 +0200

arcboot (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * don't let ext2fs errors crash the loader
   * remove dead code (larc.c)
   * Fix description, thanks Joey! (Closes: #153084)

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:05:49 +0200

arcboot (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * tip22 calculated the highest address of the kernel's memory image
     wrong - fixed
   * tip22 now passes everything in an append="...." statement on to the kernel's
     commandline
   * improve {s,f}printf (handle "%p","%lx", be more graceful on unimplemented
     format specifiers)
   * make tip22 script more failsafe
   * removed all printing of version numbers/dates on startup
   * typo fixes, minor doc updates

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Thu, 16 May 2002 00:49:28 +0200

arcboot (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * implemented "tip22" bootloader. It embeds kernel and initrd in one
     ECOFF binary. This can be used for either tftp- or CD-booting and makes
     addinitrd in the mips-tools package obselete.
   * update package built to include tip22
   * add snprintf() to arclib (needed by tip22)
   * remove snprintf() stub from ext2io.c
   * Makefile and docu cleanups
   * add a rudimentary manpage for tip22

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Thu, 9 May 2002 22:01:11 +0200

arcboot (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * move arcboot's load address 1MB upwards to let more room for larger
     kernels
   * check if the kernels in /etc/arcboot.conf are really ELF (Closes: #144728)
   * add some logic to determine the vh arcboot should go into in arcboot.config
   * update TODO

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:21:50 +0100

arcboot (0.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * update manpage, README and package description
   * disable debugging output

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:04:55 +0100

arcboot (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * close ITP (Closes: #119163)
   * the diff was far larger than the .orig.tar.gz so make this a
     debian native package
   * add debconf dependency
   * update manpage
   * apply patch from Flo <flo@rfc822.org> with an updated linker scipt
     removing the mips-tools dependency
   * generate /etc/arcboot.conf if it doesn't exist

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sat, 9 Feb 2002 02:30:04 +0100

arcboot (0.1-3) experimental; urgency=low

   * replace "\n" by "\n\r" for proper output on serial consoles
   * apply patch from Florian Lohoff to fix bad OSLoadFilename
     and formatting
   * use elf2ecoff to convert arcboot into an ecoff image
   * if OSLoadOptions starts with "/" it's a kernel name otherwise
     a label in arcboot.conf
   * remove shlibs from Depends in control file
   * change loadaddress of the bootloader 0x8820f000
   * add cacheflush before jumping into the kernel
   * add debconf frontend
   * add missing -d in dvhtool call to /usr/sbin/arcboot
   * finally remove run.S and disable larc build

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:42:18 +0100

2001

arcboot (0.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * added config file parsing (an example is in /u/s/d/arcboot/examples)
   * added a small script to move arcboot into the volume header

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:09:49 +0100

arcboot (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial Release.
   * warning fixes
   * make memset & free return the same values as the libc versions
   * build with -mno-abicalls -G 0 -fno-pic, so the prom can deal with it
   * use basically the kernel's linker script to link arcboot
   * move all addresses into KSEG0
   * IP22 is ARCS not ARC (MEMORYTYPE in arc.h)
   * IP22 is big endian (LARGEINTEGER in arc.h)
   * remove run.S and call the kernel entry via a C function call
   * add everything that is needed from e2fsprogs so we can build
     a libe2fs with -fnopic -mno-abicalls -G 0
   * make sure arcboot doesn't use the system ext2fs header files

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:21:31 +0100