This production release should now compile with
gcc 4.x. In addition, a number of drivers have
been updated, including e1000, MCP51 and MCP55
(nvidia), pcnet32, natsemi, sis900, and tg3.
NetXtreme II cards are now supported.
This production release adds support for several
10GB NICs, and allows static boot information to
be stored in a ROM. There are also a number of
bugfixes, including VMWare support and better PXE
compatibility.
Etherboot now supports booting by the PXE method.
It also supports booting on LinuxBIOS from storage
devices supported by the FILO subsystem. Drivers
for many NIC models were added. Ports to the
Hyperstone and ARM (no MMU) CPU architectures were
added.
This release contains a number of updates, but is most notable for the addition of support for filo, btext console, and the ability to boot from USB disks. These features are only used when combined with LinuxBIOS at present. Driver updates include cleanup and fixes for eepro100, rtl8139, sis900, tlan, tulip, and via-rhine. Two new drivers were added for mtd80x and Davicom based cards. Numerous other small housekeeping and cleanup changes.
