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PPCBoot 2.0.0
The Halloween Release
Fri Nov 1 00:01:24 MET 2002
This release is special:
It is the last, ultimate, final release of PPCBoot!
The PPCBoot project will not be continued any more. But: Don't Panic!
Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
Over time, the name PPCBoot has become inappropriate: we don't exclusively support PowerPC CPUs. There is also support for a couple of ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM and XScale based board. Ports for ColdFire and even x86 are in the planning or already under way. Thus it's time to acknowledge that this project has become a universal bootloader - we will continue development under the new flag
"Das U-Boot" - the Universal Boot Loader
The new project is again hosted at SourceForge, you can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/
Now for the details of this release:
It's mostly a bug-fix release, containing mostly optimizations and fixes for smaller problems.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.2.1 Mon Oct 25 14:51:00 MEST 2002
Mostly a bug fix release
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.2.0 Sun Sep 29 17:50:51 MEST 2002
Major changes:
ARMBoot source tree merged back into common tree. PPCBoot now includes support for ARM7, ARM9 and StrongARM processors.
Support for XScale, ColdFire, ... to be added
New boards: 440GP Ebony, BAB7xx, BCM56xx, CPCI-440, ELPPC, EVB-64260-750CX, GEN860T, PN62, R360MPI, UTX8245, dnp1110, ep7312, impa7, lart, shannon, smdk2400, smdk2410, trab ...
Simultaneous support for several ethernet interfaces (like SCC and FEC on MPC860T, or redundand network cards on other systems)
Enhanced PCI support
Extensive Power On Self Test capabilities (for MPC8xx)
Support for modem dial-in with password authorization
Support to store environment variables in redundand flash sectors (improved reliability)
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.6 Fri Jun 21 23:35:07 MEST 2002
LOTS of new things:
New boards: SCM, PCI405, OXC, CPU86, TTTech, ...
Grand Unifying I2C Interface Patch
Major driver cleanup (especially PCI); remove redundand code
MANY fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.5 Fri Mar 8 01:32:59 MET 2002
LOTS of new things:
New boards: ORSG, ppmc8260, PCIPPC6, IAD210, EP8260, Sandpoint_8245, RPXClassic
Support for multiple ethernet interfaces (with automatic selection)
JFFS2 filesystem support (read only)
Improved Disk On Chip support
MANY fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.4 Sat Jan 19 12:31:43 MET 2002
Support for M-Systems Disk-On-Chip
Support for QNX images
HUSH shell fixed (variable handling)
Some new boards supported
Sandpoint8240 now really working
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.3 Fri Dec 28 18:27:08 MET 2001
Unified support for 7xx and 74xx CPUs
many new boards supported
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.2 Fri Dec 7 02:33:51 MET 2001
Support for 7xx CPUs
Improved Support for 824x CPUs
HUSH Shell available as command line interpreter, including for / while / until loops, if / then / fi, etc.
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.1 Mon Nov 19 17:32:19 MET 2001
Boot Support for VxWorks images
misc fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.1.0 Mon Nov 5 19:16:14 MET 2001
LCD driver for MPC823 CPUs
Real Shell available as command interpreter ("hush" from BusyBox)
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.6 Wed Oct 17 22:16:13 MEST 2001
Cleanup for MPC8240 and IBM40x CPUs, which now use the data cache to allocate memory for initial data and stack.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.5 Tue Sep 11 22:49:39 MEST 2001
Support for some new boards (Mousse, AMX860, PM826, TQM8260)
All clocks in Hz now!!! See announcement!!!
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.4 Sun Aug 5 17:43:18 CEST 2001
Support for some new boards (NX823, DASA_SIM, CCM)
new vendor directories used for Siemens boards
misc. fixes / extensions
added board database tools
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.3 Thu Jul 19 18:35:47 MEST 2001
Support for some new features, for instance:
configurable "preboot" command;
new directory layout for better support of vendors with several boards, etc.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.2 Thu Jul 5 23:05:58 MEST 2001
Support for lots of new features:
SCSI, Floppy Disk, CD-ROM, ISO Partition, MC146818 RTC, Chips & Technologies 69000 Video Chip, Standard (PC-Style) Keyboard, protected RAM area, ...
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.1 Sun Jun 24 21:50:37 MEST 2001
SPI driver, support for SPI EEPROM and extended BedBug support
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 1.0.0 Fri Jun 15 02:00:54 MEST 2001
PPCBoot now supports 74xx CPUs and a couple of new boards.
Also, the BedBug debugger has been integrated into PPCBoot.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 0.9.3 Wed May 30 17:47:30 MEST 2001
PPCBoot now supports DHCP and a couple of new boards.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 0.9.2 Tue May 1 18:22:29 MEST 2001
PPCBoot now supports NetBSD both as host (build PPCBoot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 0.9.1 Sat Apr 28 21:45:33 MEST 2001
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 0.9.0 Sun Apr 15 22:51:58 MEST 2001
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
Mailing List update Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:05:44 +0100
The whole mailling list archive moved to www.geocrawler.com so a update of the mailing list links was required. Sorry for all the people tried to access the archive and could not find any e-mails!
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot 0.8.3 Thu Mar 8 01:35:46 MET 2001
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk
PPCBoot 0.7.1 released Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:52:43 +0100
Read the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users or download simply the tarball or use CVS if you can. The changelog since last release can be found within the announcement.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot on Brave-GNU-World Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:14:01 +0100
Georg C. F. Greve wrote in the Issue #21 of Brave-GNU-World a short article about the Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot on SiliconPenguin.com Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:14:01 +0100
Searching in the category Software/BIOS_and_Boot_Code on http://siliconpenguin.com/ you will get today also a link to http://ppcboot.sourceforge.net/ as result too.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot 0.6.4 released Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:20:54 +0100
Wolfgang announce the avaibility of version 0.6.4 today. Read this e-mail for a changelog. To get the sources use the
CVS tag PPCBOOT_0_6_4 or use the tarball from the download section.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot 0.5.3 released Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:00:11 +0200
To get the latest sources use the CVS tag PPCBOOT_0_5_3 or use the tarball from the download section. The announcement with a ChangeLog can be found
here.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot 0.5.2 released Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:35:23 +0200
One day later after the release of 0.5.1 where a new tag set, PPCBOOT_0_5_2. Feel free and check out the latest sources or
download the tarball. Do not forget to report bugs or patches! The announcement from Wolfgang Denk can be found
here.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot 0.5.1 released Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:46:48 +0200
Check the latest sources from our download section and read the announcement for a short overview over the latest changes. You can also stay tuned using
CVS :) Use PPCBOOT_0_5_1 as tag while update or check-out.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot 0.5.0 available for download Tue, 3 Oct 2000 06:11:04 +0200
Wolfgang Denk announced a new tarball of PPCBOOT at version 0.5.0 which can be downloaded via FTP or CVS. A list of all changes can be found in the
CVS repository.
-- Raphael Bossek
PPCBoot at Linux-Directory.com Tue, 3 Oct 2000 06:11:04 +0200
Today PPCBOOT where added into the Hardware:Embedded section at Linux-Directory.com is a link collection for Linux related topics.
-- Raphael Bossek
New release 0.4.4-pre1 available Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:16:31 +0200
New tarball version 0.4.4-pre1 from Wolfgang Denk available for FTP and CVS download. The announcement can be found
here.
-- Raphael Bossek
New release 0.4.2 available for download Fri, 4 Aug 2000 18:23:02 +0200
Wolfgang Denk announce today a new release of ppcboot 0.4.2 availiable as tarball and from CVS. Read Wolfgang's announcement
here.
-- Raphael Bossek
First public anouncement Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:03:02 +0200
At www.linuxdevices.com you can read the official announcement of the Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project.
-- Raphael Bossek
Linux 2.4.0-test5 for Embedded PowerPC is working! Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:03:02 +0200
Yes it's true, Wolfgang Denk get it working. For more than two days his TQM8xxL boards are compiling non-stop the Linux kernel sources via NFS without any crashes! It takes 03:30 hours before a Linux kernel is compiled using this configuration. I can imagine that the speed improves using local IDE harddrives but it is a nice test for the TCP/IP stability :)
If you are interested in hardware Wolfgang is using, take a look here. A another overview about Embedded PowerPC hardware can be found
here.
-- Raphael Bossek
Sponsors added! Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:31 +0200
New SPONSORS sections opened and some website updates done based on the PPCBOOT documentation written by Wolfang Denk.
-- Raphael Bossek
Wolfgang Denk released PPCBoot 0.4.1 Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:02:00 +0200
Wolfgang Denk done great work on the old 8xxROM sources and released the first PPCBoot sources. Many things changed since the release of 8xxROM 0.3.0. Take a look in the download section.
-- Raphael Bossek
Big homepage update Sat, 10 Jun 2000 01:10:03 +0200
After a long absence this site where updated including CVS, MAILING-LIST working.
-- Raphael Bossek
Project start Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:30:11 +0200
Project start at SourceForge. Moved the project maintains from http://www.s4l.de/ to SourceForge for a faster open source development.
-- Raphael Bossek
