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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 06:49:15 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Add few missing entries. Correct existing ones.
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---
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ChangeLog | 4 ++++
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NEWS | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
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2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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index ed6d77cc8ea..db843006df9 100644
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--- a/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
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+2013-12-30 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
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+
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+ * NEWS: Add few missing entries. Correct existing ones.
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+
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2013-12-28 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
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Don't abort() on unavailable coreboot tables if not running on coreboot.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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index b74c05f637f..49a2459b6a0 100644
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--- a/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
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@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ New in 2.02:
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* Improve FreeDOS direct loading support compatibility.
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* Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS.
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* New TrueCrypt ISO loader.
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+ * multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification.
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+ * multiboot2 full-file specfication.
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* New/improved network support:
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* New variables `net_default_*' containing properties of the default
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@@ -44,11 +46,17 @@ New in 2.02:
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* Parse `nd' disk names in GRUB Legacy configuration files.
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* Issue separate DNS queries for IPv4 and IPv6.
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+* Coreboot improvements:
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+ * CBFS support both in on-disk images (loopback) and flash.
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+ * Ability to launch another payload from flash or disk
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+ * Coreboot framebuffer
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+ * CBMEMC support (both logging and inspecting logs)
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+ * Inspecting coreboot timestamps.
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+ * Inspecting coreboot tables.
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+
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* New/improved platform support:
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* New `efifwsetup' and `lsefi' commands on EFI platforms.
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* New `cmosdump' and `cmosset' commands on platforms with CMOS support.
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- * New `cbmemc', `coreboot_boottime', and `lscoreboot' commands on
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- coreboot.
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* Improve opcode parsing in ACPI halt implementation.
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* Use the TSC as a possible time source on i386-ieee1275.
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* Merge PowerPC grub-mkrescue implementation with the common one.
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@@ -68,6 +76,7 @@ New in 2.02:
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grub-install.
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* Support Yeeloong 3A.
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* Add `cpuid --pae' option to detect Physical Address Extension on x86.
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+ * Support for USB debug dongles.
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* Security:
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* Add optional facility to enforce that all files read by the core image
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@@ -78,6 +87,7 @@ New in 2.02:
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* New boot time analysis framework (`./configure --enable-boot-time').
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* Initialise USB ports in parallel.
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* New `testspeed' command to test file read speed.
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+ * Speed-up gfxterm by storing intermediate results in more compact format.
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* Scripting:
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* New `eval' and `tr' commands.
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@@ -95,6 +105,7 @@ New in 2.02:
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* grub-install, grub-mknetdir, grub-mkrescue, and grub-mkstandalone
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rewritten in C. They should now work in supported non-Unix-like
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environments.
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+ * Native mingw support, including ability to install on EFI under windows.
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* Reorganise timeout handling using new `timeout_style' environment
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variable and `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' configuration key for grub-mkconfig.
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Menu hotkeys pressed during a hidden timeout now boot the corresponding
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@@ -107,12 +118,19 @@ New in 2.02:
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executable stack.
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* Fix documentation build with Texinfo >= 5.1.
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* More robust and documented cross-compiling support.
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- * Partial clang support for some platforms.
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+ * Partial clang support for some platforms (experimental).
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+ * Partial mingw64 x86_64-efi compile support (highly experimental).
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+ * Partial mingw32 i386-* (other than already present i386-pc)
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+ compile support (highly experimental).
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* Eliminate the use of AutoGen. This allowed some performance
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improvements to the build system.
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+ * Remove variable length arrays.
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+ * OpenBSD compile and tools support (NetBSD and FreeBSD were already supported).
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* Fix build with FreeType >= 2.5.1.
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* Make gentpl.py compatible with Python 3. It now requires at least
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Python 2.6.
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+ * modinfo.sh contains build information now.
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+ * Added many new tests to improve robustness.
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* Revision control moved to git.
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@@ -142,7 +160,6 @@ New in 2.00:
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* IEEE1275 serial.
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* EFI serial.
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* Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS.
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- * VBE on coreboot support.
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* New filesystem, filters and disks formats:
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* DVH partition map.
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@@ -166,7 +183,7 @@ New in 2.00:
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* multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support.
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* RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support.
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* ZFS crypto support.
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- * ZLE and GZIP on ZFS support.
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+ * ZLE, LZ4 and GZIP on ZFS support.
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* Support ZFS up to 33.
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* HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8
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* HFS mtime support.
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