[Dev] GRUB 2.00 released

[André Silva]

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* <phcoder at gmail.com
> <mailto:phcoder at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:13 PM
> Subject: [Gnewsense-dev] GRUB 2.00 released
> To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel at gnu.org
> <mailto:grub-devel at gnu.org>>, rms / fsf sysadmin / fsf volunteers /
> lemote <lemote at gnu.org <mailto:lemote at gnu.org>>, gnewsense-dev
> <gnewsense-dev at nongnu.org <mailto:gnewsense-dev at nongnu.org>>
>
>
> 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
>
>
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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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