palo (2.00) unstable; urgency=medium [ Helge Deller ] * Default to console=ttyS0 on all machines (incl. rp34x0). * Fix layout when printing partition table with discs > 100GB. * Fix up boot messages with regard to newline behaviour. * Include palo version identifier in binary ipl code. [ Rolf Eike Beer ] * Allow to override ar. -- Helge Deller Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:07:58 +0100 palo (1.99) unstable; urgency=medium * Increase loadable kernel size to 100MB. * Improve debug output and error handling. * Add hidden "d" command to toggle debug mode in interactive mode. -- Helge Deller Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:50:44 +0200 palo (1.98) unstable; urgency=medium * Default to console=ttyS1 on rp34x0 machines. -- Helge Deller Tue, 30 May 2017 13:12:20 -0700 palo (1.97) unstable; urgency=medium * Enable support for cross-building of iplboot: (Closes: #851792) [ Helge Deller ] - Add gcc-hppa-linux-gnu and libc6-dev-hppa-cross to Build-Depends on architectures other than hppa. - Modify ipl/Makefile to support cross-compiling. [ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ] - Build palo on amd64, i386, hppa and x32 only. - Move building of iplboot from dh_auto_clean to dh_auto_build. -- Helge Deller Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:48:37 +0100 palo (1.96) unstable; urgency=medium * Make the build reproducible. (Closes: #778437) * Unbreak loading Linux kernels bigger than 16 MB. * Enable support for gcc-6. -- Helge Deller Sun, 08 Oct 2016 22:40:31 +0100 palo (1.95) unstable; urgency=medium * Re-add build dependency on lynx, generate README from README.html again. Fixes FTBFS on hppa. * Update pre-built iplboot bootloader code. -- Helge Deller Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:12:44 -0600 palo (1.94) unstable; urgency=medium [ Helge Deller ] * Fix build on non-Linux kernels. * Provide possibility to configure used MAKE tool via environment variable. Since palo requires GNU make, this gives an option to set MAKE=gnumake on HP-UX. * Disable getopt library on HP-UX. * Do not hardcode gcc compiler in Makefile, e.g. on HP-UX aCC can be used. * Use printf("0x%08x") instead of printf("%p"), which is not supported on HP-UX. * Provide endianess byteswapping functions for HP-UX. * Provide pre-built README file to avoid dependency on lynx. [ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ] * Remove boiler plate comment and fix wording in debian/rules. -- Helge Deller Sat, 05 Apr 2014 11:31:51 +0200 palo (1.93) unstable; urgency=medium [Helge Deller] * Reintroduce package to Debian. (Closes: #742068) [John Paul Adrian Glaubitz] * Clean up debian/changelog. * Clean up debian/README.Debian. * Add debian/README.source to explain the version history of the PALO sources in Debian. * Bump debhelper level to 9. * Use dh to streamline debian/rules. * Remove usr/bin and usr/sbin from debian/dirs, they are empty. * Update debian/copyright to copyright format 1.0. -- Helge Deller Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:47:42 -0600 palo (1.92) unstable; urgency=low * Increase possible command line length from 127 to 1024 bytes. * Each kernel parameter can hold up to 200 chars (79 before). * Various smaller bugfixes. -- Helge Deller Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:47:54 +0200 palo (1.91) unstable; urgency=low * Add spec-file for RPM. * Remove debug infos. * Add overflow checks. -- Helge Deller Sat, 06 Jul 2013 22:08:05 +0200 palo (1.90) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer. * Add support for gzip-compressed kernel images. * Add boot menu option "x" to reset/reboot the machine. * Lots of other small bug fixes. -- Helge Deller Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:22:36 +0200 palo (1.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [Matthew Wilcox] * Increase allowed size from 20MB to 800MB when creating lifimage files for booting over the network. [ Kyle McMartin ] * Fix FTBFS on ia64: Useful macros were undefined in userspace. -- Kyle McMartin Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:09:38 -0500 palo (1.15) unstable; urgency=low [ Kyle McMartin ] * Make the message when using the -U option on an unformatted volume slightly more helpful. [ Jeff Bailey ] * Drop dependency on linux-kernel-headers, the new package linux-libc-dev is an indirect dependency of build-essential. * Depend on debhelper >= 5, set compat file to 5. * Drop obsolete headers: - asm/elf.h - asm/posix_types.h - asm/ptrace.h - asm/types.h - linux/elf.h * ipl/ext2.c: No longer needs asm/byteorder.h, include linux/types.h after sys/stat.h to avoid FTBFS. * Makefile: Add note why iplboot isn't cleaned. -- LaMont Jones Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:41:23 -0600 palo (1.14) unstable; urgency=low [Helge Deller] * Make ELF32 and ELF64 loaders more similar, other small fixups. * Fix build on SuSE 10. [Kyle McMartin] * Add LaMont and myself to the list of Uploaders. -- Kyle McMartin Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:00:55 -0400 palo (1.13) unstable; urgency=low * One more workaround for linux-kernel-headers differences: __swab64 shows up on 64-bit machines on Ubuntu. * 64-bit pointer casting fixes. -- LaMont Jones Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:08:58 -0700 palo (1.12) unstable; urgency=low * Work around differences in linux-kernel-headers between Debian and Ubuntu. Test build on sid and dapper on hppa and sid/i386. * Use userspace-sanitized ext2_fs.h file from e2fsprogs; we still need to include some kernel headers for per-arch types and endian conversions. -- Kyle McMartin Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:16:36 -0500 palo (1.11) unstable; urgency=low * Flush Instruction Cache insn now requires space register to be specified. Previously it would assume %sr0. * Fix include of ext2_fs.h by stubbing out some definitions it requires. Patch from Richard Hirst. (Closes: #336346) * Fix FTBFS from previous version a different way. Checked that it properly works on i386 and hppa. Patch from Andreas Jochens. (Closes: #320284) -- Kyle McMartin Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:46:44 -0500 palo (1.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Fix FTBFS with Debian's linux-kernel-headers. (Closes: #320284) * Command line overflow error was lacking arguments. -- LaMont Jones Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:41:00 -0600 palo (1.9) unstable; urgency=low * linux-kernel-headers is about to change which broke the PALO build, so removed lots of dependencies on copies and references to linux header files, but added a dep on linux-kernel-headers. * Fix a couple of lintian complaints. -- Paul Bame Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:31:06 -0600 palo (1.8) unstable; urgency=low * Remove -fwritable-strings from palo/ipl Makefile since gcc will eliminate it before long. -- Paul Bame Mon, 23 May 2005 10:53:46 -0600 palo (1.7) unstable; urgency=low * Fix the message and improve the error handling which was reporting "doing a format as ext1" during updates. -- Grant Grundler Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:00:00 -0800 palo (1.6) unstable; urgency=low * Some fail/restart changes didn't make it in 1.5 by mistake. -- Paul Bame Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:11:00 -0600 palo (1.5) unstable; urgency=low * Some clean ups and error checking especially in ipl.c. * Fix a Heisenbug (overwriting a buffer). * Add an 'l' command for list kernel directory. (jejb) * Accept both \b and \0177 as the interactive erase character. (jejb) * Be sure to restart interactively after more failures. (Joel and Bjoern A. Zeeb) -- Paul Bame Wed, 14 May 2004 09:00:29 -0600 palo (1.4) unstable; urgency=low * Increase interactive command line size from 127 to 259 bytes. * Add more robust 'strcat' checking. * Add interactive 'r' command to reset command line to initial state. -- Paul Bame Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:01:23 -0700 palo (1.3) unstable; urgency=low [James Bottomley] * Add ability to format PALO partition as ext3. * Make iplboot restart if it encounters and error. [Ryan Bradetich] * Detect and boot properly via serial mux. -- Paul Bame Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:06:45 -0700 palo (1.2) unstable; urgency=low [Martin K. Petersen] * Recognize RAID partition types. -- Paul Bame Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:06:45 -0700 palo (1.1) unstable; urgency=low [Carlos O'Donell] * Change argument checking in palo.c: Originally you could specify a kernel command line of up to 255 characters, but in reality the firstblock structure could only hold 127 characters. The check in palo.c has been adjusted to 127. * Change PALO to build without kernel headers: - Remove conditional header includes depending on kernel version - Remove the #include directive for fs.h in ipl/ext2.c. - Remove the #include directive for time.h in /ipl/ipl.c. - Add ./include/asm and ./include/linux/byteorder to accomodate for all the new asm/* and linux/byteorder/* header files that are required to build PALO without kernel headers. -- Paul Bame Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:47:57 -0600 palo (1.0) unstable; urgency=low * Fix package override so debian/rules changes should now be honored, causing PALO to be built on all architectures. priority optional. (Closes: #140580) -- Paul Bame Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:59:15 -0700 palo (0.99) unstable; urgency=low * Remove cruft from source package. (Closes: #130365) * Smarter STI console selection from Fleedwood. * Message tweaks from Helge Deller. * The experimental palo_kernel= parameter is now passed to the kernel. -- Paul Bame Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:49:03 -0700 palo (0.98) unstable; urgency=low * Load ramdisk from ext2 implementation. (Thanks James Bottomley) -- Paul Bame Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:38:31 -0700 palo (0.97) unstable; urgency=low * Fix lintian complaints. * Minor makefile tweaks. * Optimize boot device reads for better performance. * Adopt/adapt aboot-0.9 ext2 code (was from aboot-0.5). * Add '-onlcr' to puts() and removed \r from most printfs. -- Paul Bame Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:47:57 -0700 palo (0.96) unstable; urgency=low * Many boot message usability improvements. * Clean up changelog. (Closes: #114999) * Change arch back to hppa. (Closes: #114145) * Fix dhelp postinstall problem. (Closes: #113651, #114515, #114614, #115350) -- Paul Bame Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:24:24 -0700 palo (0.95) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * Increment PALO version in lib/common.h. -- Matt Taggart Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:34:45 -0600 palo (0.94) unstable; urgency=low * Add support for symlinks so we can reference /boot/vmlinux in palo.conf and not have to rerun palo on every kernel upgrade.(Richard Hirst) * Move iplboot into /usr/share/palo. (Richard Hirst) * Only generate iplboot if building on hppa machines. debian-cd needs PALO, and is likely to be run on i386. (Richard Hirst) * --bootloader now defaults to /usr/share/palo/iplboot, so it is usually not required. Adjust documents slightly to accomodate. * Add postinstall/prerm scripts to handle changed iplboot location. -- Paul Bame Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:32:21 -0600 palo (0.93) unstable; urgency=low * Fix boot loader "guess" logic to be smarter on dual-width-capable machines when only one kernel is available. * Remove a couple of gratuitous printfs. * Archive link PALO. Not a bad idea otherwise but required because dpkg-shlibdeps started whining. I'm sure I'll get grief for this. -- Paul Bame Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:00:17 -0600 palo (0.92) unstable; urgency=low * Remove SOM loader code. * If the user hasn't specified one, PALO/ipl adds the correct console= to the command line based on whether the boot console is full (ttyS0, serial) or half (tty0, graphics) duplex. Also adds sti= and sti_font= if they're missing. * PALO header version is now 3. Can store both a 32 and a 64-bit kernel in the F0/sequential/CDROM formats. * When booting from F0/sequential/CDROM PALO guesses the 32/64-ness by asking firmware if the user doesn't specify 0/vmlinux64 or 0/vmlinux32. On boxes which support both 32 and 64, 32 is chosen. * If no TERM= in kernel cmd line, when guessing serial/sti, add TERM=vt102 for former and TERM=linux for latter. * Print boot command line even in non-interactive mode. * Place kernels and ramdisks on 2k boundaries on sequential media to help avoid reverse seeks during boot. -- Paul Bame Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:21:06 -0600 palo (0.91) unstable; urgency=high * Fix check which causes some narrow IPL loads to fail. -- Paul Bame Tue, 29 May 2001 11:39:23 -0600 palo (0.90) unstable; urgency=low * Add support for calling PDC/IODC in wide mode (i.e., for Superdome). PALO ipl continues to run in narrow mode on all platforms, except that PDC/IODC calls are made in the mode that ipl was started in. -- Bjorn Helgaas Tue, 15 May 2001 13:17:21 -0600 palo (0.89) unstable; urgency=high * PALO can now prepare disks >2G on 32-bit kernels, even though it is not using large file I/O calls, which are not useful yet anyway. Fixes bugs.parisc-linux.org #125. * Fix bugs.parisc-linux.org #89. -- Paul Bame Fri, 11 May 2001 19:07:18 -0600 palo (0.88) unstable; urgency=high * Fix several lintian bugs by uncommenting 2 lines in debian/rules. * No longer ship /etc/palo.conf as config file -- expect installer to provide one now. Example in /usr/share/doc/palo. Should have some post-install magic to offer to run palo if /etc/palo.conf exists, and a complaint if /etc/palo.conf doesn't exist because you should have one from running the installer. * Change palo to a native Debian package since it's maintained as one. -- Paul Bame Fri, 11 May 2001 16:07:18 -0600 palo (0.86-1) unstable; urgency=high * Probably required to support later non-0xc0100000 kernels. -- Paul Bame Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:22:45 -0700 palo (0.85-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial Release. -- Paul Bame Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:49:42 -0700