From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 06:49:15 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Add few missing entries. Correct existing ones.

---

 ChangeLog |  4 ++++

 NEWS      | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----

 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog

index ed6d77cc8ea..db843006df9 100644

--- a/ChangeLog

+++ b/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@

+2013-12-30  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder@gmail.com>

+

+	* NEWS: Add few missing entries. Correct existing ones.

+

 2013-12-28  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder@gmail.com>

 	Don't abort() on unavailable coreboot tables if not running on coreboot.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS

index b74c05f637f..49a2459b6a0 100644

--- a/NEWS

+++ b/NEWS

@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ New in 2.02:

   * Improve FreeDOS direct loading support compatibility.

   * Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS.

   * New TrueCrypt ISO loader.

+  * multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification.

+  * multiboot2 full-file specfication.

 * New/improved network support:

   * New variables `net_default_*' containing properties of the default

@@ -44,11 +46,17 @@ New in 2.02:

   * Parse `nd' disk names in GRUB Legacy configuration files.

   * Issue separate DNS queries for IPv4 and IPv6.

+* Coreboot improvements:

+  * CBFS support both in on-disk images (loopback) and flash.

+  * Ability to launch another payload from flash or disk

+  * Coreboot framebuffer

+  * CBMEMC support (both logging and inspecting logs)

+  * Inspecting coreboot timestamps.

+  * Inspecting coreboot tables.

+

 * New/improved platform support:

   * New `efifwsetup' and `lsefi' commands on EFI platforms.

   * New `cmosdump' and `cmosset' commands on platforms with CMOS support.

-  * New `cbmemc', `coreboot_boottime', and `lscoreboot' commands on

-    coreboot.

   * Improve opcode parsing in ACPI halt implementation.

   * Use the TSC as a possible time source on i386-ieee1275.

   * Merge PowerPC grub-mkrescue implementation with the common one.

@@ -68,6 +76,7 @@ New in 2.02:

     grub-install.

   * Support Yeeloong 3A.

   * Add `cpuid --pae' option to detect Physical Address Extension on x86.

+  * Support for USB debug dongles.

 * Security:

   * Add optional facility to enforce that all files read by the core image

@@ -78,6 +87,7 @@ New in 2.02:

   * New boot time analysis framework (`./configure --enable-boot-time').

   * Initialise USB ports in parallel.

   * New `testspeed' command to test file read speed.

+  * Speed-up gfxterm by storing intermediate results in more compact format.

 * Scripting:

   * New `eval' and `tr' commands.

@@ -95,6 +105,7 @@ New in 2.02:

   * grub-install, grub-mknetdir, grub-mkrescue, and grub-mkstandalone

     rewritten in C.  They should now work in supported non-Unix-like

     environments.

+  * Native mingw support, including ability to install on EFI under windows.

   * Reorganise timeout handling using new `timeout_style' environment

     variable and `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' configuration key for grub-mkconfig.

     Menu hotkeys pressed during a hidden timeout now boot the corresponding

@@ -107,12 +118,19 @@ New in 2.02:

     executable stack.

   * Fix documentation build with Texinfo >= 5.1.

   * More robust and documented cross-compiling support.

-  * Partial clang support for some platforms.

+  * Partial clang support for some platforms (experimental).

+  * Partial mingw64 x86_64-efi compile support (highly experimental).

+  * Partial mingw32 i386-* (other than already present i386-pc)

+    compile support (highly experimental).

   * Eliminate the use of AutoGen.  This allowed some performance

     improvements to the build system.

+  * Remove variable length arrays.

+  * OpenBSD compile and tools support (NetBSD and FreeBSD were already supported).

   * Fix build with FreeType >= 2.5.1.

   * Make gentpl.py compatible with Python 3.  It now requires at least

     Python 2.6.

+  * modinfo.sh contains build information now.

+  * Added many new tests to improve robustness.

 * Revision control moved to git.

@@ -142,7 +160,6 @@ New in 2.00:

   * IEEE1275 serial.

   * EFI serial.

   * Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP and DNS.

-  * VBE on coreboot support.

 * New filesystem, filters and disks formats:

   * DVH partition map.

@@ -166,7 +183,7 @@ New in 2.00:

   * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support.

   * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support.

   * ZFS crypto support.

-  * ZLE and GZIP on ZFS support.

+  * ZLE, LZ4 and GZIP on ZFS support.

   * Support ZFS up to 33.

   * HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8

   * HFS mtime support.