Em 28-06-2012 13:19, Daniel Clark escreveu: > Thought Parabola Hackers might also be interested in this announcement > from phcoder... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko* <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:13 PM > Subject: [Gnewsense-dev] GRUB 2.00 released > To: The development of GRUB 2 <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>, rms / fsf sysadmin / fsf volunteers / > lemote <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, gnewsense-dev > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > Hello, all > > I'm proud to announce the release of GNU GRUB version 2.00. > > Since this version has a round number it has been paid special attention > to, and hopefully, represents higher quality. > > This is the first time we include an official theme (starfield). > > This version also includes EHCI driver. > > Support for using GRUB as firmware on Yeeloong was added in GRUB 1.99, > and for 2.00 this support has been extended to Fuloong2F as well. > > This is also the first time we release itanium and SGI mips port. Later > is experimental due to problems encountered with its firmware. > > The release file is bigger than it should be because of autogeneration > issues. Other than the size these issues have no impact but their fixing > is scheduled for next release. > > GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable > bootloader that supports a number of platforms, including standard > BIOS-based PCs, EFI-based x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) and itanium systems, > IEEE-1275 platforms (such as the OLPC and some PowerPC/Sparc64 > hardware), coreboot, the free (as in freedom) pre-boot initialization > framework, Yeeloong (laptop) and Fuloong2F (mini-box), free (as in > freedom) Loongson-2F-based (MIPS compliant CPU) systems, big-endian mips > ARCS systems (SGI), as well as bare i386 and mips (either endian) qemu. > > Other major improvements include (extract from NEWS file): > > > * Appearence: > * Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield) > * Menu is organised with submenus. > * Better default video mode selection using EDID. > > * New platforms: > * Itanium port. > * Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware) > * Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware) > * ARCS (SGI machines) port. > * qemu -M mips port. > > * grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE. > > * Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any > superuser is > defined. > > * New drivers: > * EHCI. > * AHCI. > * ESCC serial. > * 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. > * Plan9 partition map. > * Big-endian mdraid. > * Big-endian cpio. > * ODC and NEWC cpio. > * ExFAT. > * Minix3fs. > * Big-endian minixfs. > * RomFS. > * Squash4. > * Support non-512B disk blocks. > * LUKS and GELI support. > * LDM read support (no install yet). > * LZOP. > > * Improved filesystem and disks formats support: > * HFS+ label support. > * Improved reiserfs support. > * multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support. > * RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support. > * ZFS crypto support. > * ZLE 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. > * Improved AFFS and SFS support. > * LZO-compressed btrfs support. > * cpio and tar symlinks support. > * Better FS detection to reduce false positives. > > * New boot protocols: > * Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot. > * Plan9. > * Freedos. > * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader). > * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct > wrong partition offset. > * PXE chainloading support. > * Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support. > > * Boot protocol improvements: > * Multiple initrd support. > * Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig. > > * Testing and debugging: > * New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid > * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that > a directory is read correctly. > * Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only) > * Disk cache statistics gathering. > * GDB stub and GDB support script. > * "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms > (except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu) > * New `time' command. > > * Performance: > * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used. > This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning. > * Use CPU cache when accessing video memory. > * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a > device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases. > > * Internationalisation: > * Updated to Unicode 6.0. > * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This > allows easy > translation of grub.cfg at runtime. > * Translations to many languages included in official distribution. > > * Scripting: > * $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on > platform > at runtime. > * $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features. > * Use of ids to identify menu entries. > * all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus > allowing easy loading of all of them. > > * Installation: > * grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory. > * Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue. > * grub-install support for all platforms except emu. > * PreP partition install support. > * No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc). This > allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms. > * grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all > modules > for platforms with generous limit on image size. > * program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions. > Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour. > > * ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum). > > * ofconsole renamed to console > > * Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain. > > * grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of > any grub utility. > > > <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/> > > A source tarball for the new release can be found at: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.gz > > or > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz > > > and its GPG detached signature [*]: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.gz.sig > > or > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz.sig > > > [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that > the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, > be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. > Then, run a command like this: > > gpg --verify grub-2.00.tar.gz.sig > > If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, > then run this command to import it: > > gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net <http://keys.gnupg.net> --recv-keys > E82E4209 > > and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. > > This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: > Autoconf 2.69 > Automake 1.11.5 > > GCC 4.7 is the recommended version for building it, although any version > starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release. > > I hope you enjoy using GRUB as much as we enjoyed developing it. > > > > -- > Regards > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
Guys, in this moment, I uploaded grub-2.00-1 for i686 and x86_64 on [libre-testing] to test. I put a notice about it http://identi.ca/notice/95005383 Regards, André Fabian Silva Delgado.
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