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1- Added Booter message Logging (":/boot-log" ioreg property)
2- Removed obsolete -f option, use -x instead
3- Removed -x32 option, use arch=i386 instead
4- Added automatic SMBusspeed detection for lga1156 core i5/7 cpus
5- Added new iMac11,1 sbios default model for lga1156 core i5/17 mobos
6- md0 code. Notified xnu when an md ramdisk is specified
7- Added rollover image support for selected device icons.
8 Use device_<type>_o.png in theme folder. Credits goes to Blackosx.
9- Revisited theme resource embedding. Using the device_<type> icons are optional with
10 the exception of device_generic.
11- Optimized memory detection speed
12- Added displaying source device and partition number for file read operations.
13- Increased boot2's maximum size from 383.5k to 447.5k.
14 Updated stage 1 loaders for handling the new size limit.
15- Added alternate format for setting the default partition. The user can specify the selected
16 volume UUID for the "Default Partition" key.
17- Implemented SPD memory automatic detection and injection,seems to work really great ...
18- Factorized code to prepare a dynamic memory detection algorithm ...
19- Optimized smbios table address search
20- Optimized cursor spinout in textmode if no verbose mode is set
21- Added ram table structures definitions
22- Added getSmbios() a param permitting to select between orig and new smbios entries
23- Changed "Default Partition" behaviour to accept only native system volumes or foreign partitions.
24- Added NVIDIA new NVCAP customization support and support for ION gfx cards from aserebln
25- Added ATI new framebuffers support and new cards from PCEFI10.6
26- improved ACPI file search algo by implementing a cache.
27- Nvidia injection fix
28- pciroot would not always return correct uuid in autodection mode
29- Fixed the hibernation problem in boot2/resume.c
30- Fixed all new booter versions with SystemType would override the facp value even if correct,
31 now keeps the facp value if correct and no override has been done, implemented a best effort algo.
32 for maximizing the chance to get the most correct value before we decide to use a fixed value (1=desktop)
33- Fixed display cosmetics of UUID, now a convert.c file contains all
34 conversions api, to be completed by function that we should reuse.
35
36- Fixed SystemType would be always forced to a value, now optionally changed
37 only if ovveriden
38- Kept SystemID as the only option to change manually the system-id
39 For theses reasons, SystemId from bootConfig and SMUUID from smbiosConfig aer now DEPRECATED.
40
41- Integrated JrCs fadt patch (kept for RC5 the existing DSDT.aml retry algo that disapeared in his patch, should be more discussed for RC6)
42- Added JrCs modified convention name change to coding_standards
43- Now malloc (ex. MALLOC in Asere patch) is renamed malloc(size) and is an alias
44 to safe_malloc(size, file, line) with _FILE_ and _LINE_ prerocessor definitions
45- Added a new 'Rename Partition Feature', now permitting to rename partition
46 like 'System reserved' to a more meaningful name
47- Added SystemID option permitting to change the System UUID to a fixed value.
48- Added the PciRoot autodetection feature imported from pcefi10.5
49- Added automatic "system-id" injection from dmi bios, also compatible
50 with SystemID boot option and former SMUUID from smbios,plist
51- Added "system-type' automatic injection (1=Desktop) plus override possibility
52 with the new system-type option in bootConfig
53- Added SMserial and SMproductname new options for smbios.plist
54- Merged with asere patch, while keeping my fake_efi.c changes, and adding a new
55 stringForKey() API, also changed the DT__XXXX() set of functions
56 to handle const char * values instead of char*.
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