2010-01-12 Robert Millan <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com>
Video mode amendment by Vladimir Serbinenko. See NEWS file for
details.
* NEWS: Document video mode amendment.
* doc/multiboot.texi: Video mode ammendment.
* doc/multiboot.h (MULTIBOOT_INFO_VIDEO_INFO): Remove macro.
(MULTIBOOT_INFO_VBE_INFO, MULTIBOOT_INFO_FRAMEBUFFER_INFO): New macros.
(multiboot_uint8_t): New type.
(struct multiboot_color): New structure.
(struct multiboot_info): Add new video mode fields.
(MULTIBOOT_FRAMEBUFFER_TYPE_INDEXED)
(MULTIBOOT_FRAMEBUFFER_TYPE_RGB): New macros.
* doc/boot.S (MULTIBOOT_HEADER_FLAGS): Add `MULTIBOOT_VIDEO_MODE'.
(multiboot_header): Include video mode information.
* doc/kernel.c (cmain): Draw a blue diagonal line when video mode
information is provided.
Kick out Multiboot 2 draft as a branch. Initially it is
identical to Multiboot 1, except for the magic numbers.
* doc/multiboot.h: Rename to ...
* doc/multiboot2.h: ... this. Update all users.
(MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC): Replace with ...
(MULTIBOOT2_HEADER_MAGIC): ... this. Update all users.
(MULTIBOOT_BOOTLOADER_MAGIC): Replace with ...
(MULTIBOOT2_BOOTLOADER_MAGIC): ... this. Update all users.
* autogen.sh: Use `gnulib-tool' to install gendocs.sh.
* Makefile.am (web-manual): New target. Builds a web manual using
gendocs.sh.
* configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Require Autoconf 2.59 or later.
Use more standard `doc' directory.
* docs: Rename to ...
* doc: ... this. Update all users.
* doc/multiboot.texi: Fix an obsolete reference to `docs' directory
in GRUB distribution.
* autogen.sh: Workaround Automake requirement for NEWS and README.
We really should have them, but in practice we never had. This
ought not be considered a regression.
* docs/multiboot.texi: Misc editorial changes:
Avoid using `commercial' as a synonym for `non-free'
(see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial).
Make a clear distinction between kernels and Operating Systems
(Linux is a kernel, FreeBSD and NetBSD are Operating Systems, Mach
is a microkernel, VSTa is something in-between).
Use 64-bit types to describe 64-bit datum (instead of splitting in
two 32-bit fields). Little endianess assumption applies (as per
Terminology section).
Update status of GNU GRUB relative to version 2.
* docs/multiboot.h: Replace with include/multiboot.h from GRUB 2 Bazaar
trunk.
* docs/kernel.c (cmain): Update name references for new multiboot.h
header.
* docs/boot.S (ASM): Rename to ...
(ASM_FILE): ... this.
* docs/multiboot.h: Check for `ASM_FILE' instead of `ASM'.
* docs/multiboot.h (EXT_C, STACK_SIZE): Moved from here ...
* docs/boot.S (EXT_C, STACK_SIZE): ... to here.
Prevent generation of .note.gnu.build-id which drastically increases
memory requirements of example kernel.
* docs/Makefile.am (kernel_LDFLAGS): Add '-Wl,--build-id=none'.
Remove everything not related to Multiboot. A huge number of files
was removed (too many to list them here). The following files were
modified:
* AUTHORS: Remove GRUB-specific bits.
* Makefile.am: Likewise.
* THANKS: Likewise.
* autogen.sh: Likewise.
* configure.ac: Likewise.
* docs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
Based on patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
* docs/multiboot.texi: Fix some spelling.
* docs/internals.texi: Likewise.
* docs/grub.texi: Likewise.
Surpass 1 TiB disk addressing limit. Note: there are no plans to handle
the 2 TiB disk limit in GRUB Legacy, since that would need considerable
rework. If you have >2TiB disks, use GRUB 2 instead.
* grub/asmstub.c (biosdisk): Add unsigned qualifier to `sector'.
* stage2/bios.c (biosdisk): Likewise.
* stage2/disk_io.c (rawread, devread, rawwrite, devwrite): Likewise.
* stage2/shared.h (rawread, devread, rawwrite, devwrite): Likewise.
* lib/device.c (get_drive_geometry): Replace BLKGETSIZE with
BLKGETSIZE64.
linker and add it to LDFLAGS if possible. Build ID causes
objcopy to generate huge binary files.
* aclocal.m4 (grub_PROG_OBJCOPY_ABSOLUTE): Use LDFLAGS when
linking, so that build ID doesn't break the test.
* stage1/Makefile.am: Preserve LDFLAGS, use stage1_exec_LDFLAGS.
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko