2 - Fix the i386-linux probe code so it does not get confused by
3 bzImages that are also ELF executables.
4 - Changed value of GDTLOC and REAL_MODE_DATA_LOC to be below
5 512kb. This allows for booting on machines whose BIOS reports
6 only 512kb of memory below 1MB.
9 - Fix the checksum code so that it checksums the bss sections as well.
10 How I missed the checksum code was broken in 2.4 I don't know.
13 - Fix code that failed to write more than the first ELF note.
14 Resulting in checksums and other information not being present
15 in the generated ELF image.
16 This bug has been present since mkelfImage-2.0
19 - Disable debugging code on the itanium that is not always safe.
22 - Always read the correct pointer when an ELF boot header is found.
23 - Add a printf implementation to i386-linux/convert_param.c
24 - Minor man page updates.
27 - Allow an arbitrary number of kernel headers in mkelf-linux-ia64.c
28 - Remove unused entries from Makefile.conf.in
29 - Correctly report the elf note size.
30 - Check for broken binutils when we run, so mkelfImage does not generate incorrect images.
31 - Add automatic decompress of kernel images
34 - Convert everything to C
37 * 1.19 20 December 2002
38 - Update to handle a Bhdr passed via the C calling conventions.
40 * 1.18 9 November 2002
41 - Update to work with binutils 2.13.x
43 * 1.17 17 October 2002
45 - Fix Source0 in the rpm spec file
49 - Include the source for my spec file in the tarball.
50 - Fix the make install target
53 - Rewrote the perl ip checksum code to be reasonably fast
54 - Fixes to the initial parameter passing in head.S thanks to Jake Page <jake@CS.Stanford.EDU>
55 - Initial cross compiling support thanks to Jake Page <jake@CS.Stanford.EDU>
56 - Official specfile thanks to Andrew Ip <aip@cwlinux.com>
57 - Autoconf support Josh Aune <lunke@linuxnetworx.com>
60 - Use much less complex ld magic (removed the use of PHDRS directive)
61 - Fix a small bug in the LinuxBIOS checksum verification code (only affected odd length tables)
64 Include the version number in mkelfImage.
66 * 1.12 26 January 2002
67 Better firmware detection, and stripping excess symbols from the
70 * 1.11 24 January 2002
71 Bug fix to command line processing.
73 * 1.10 21 January 2002
74 Starting using the PHDRS directive which many versions of ld cannot
75 handle correctly. The symptom is generally a file that is 9MB in
78 Start computing a checksum on the Image.
80 Include an ELF note section in the image for out of band
81 information (checksum, program name, etc).
84 I changed LinuxBIOS (in LinuxBIOS) from passing it's information
85 locally, to passing it in a global table that is always present.
86 So that whoever needs that information can get it unfiltered. And
87 because it isn't being passed around it has less chance of
88 becomming corrupt. Globals for global information are good :)
89 Version 1.9 goes out and finds that table.
91 * 1.8 10 December 2001
92 Move the ramdisk up even higher in memory.
93 Better debugging of multiboot parameters
94 Pass the correct values for a vga screen instead of telling the
98 Warn when I don't have information about the bootloader.
99 Include a ELF compreressor that works on alpha && x86
100 There is no good way to apply it though.
103 Code cleanup in bzImage support.
106 Add support for bzImage
111 * 1.3 27 December 2000
112 Minor bug fixes for working with the e820 memory map.
114 * 1.2 18 December 2000
115 Work around for some versions of ld not treating /dev/null and an
118 * 1.1 30 November 2000
119 Fix for ramdisks and large amounts of memory with 2.2 series
122 * 1.0 7 November 2000
123 Initial release (supports vmlinux && bvmlinux)