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1- New makefile + configuration system.
2- Added the BOOT2_MAX_LENGTH constant in memory.h. This is now used in mboot.c to relocate the correct number of bytes for boot2.
3- Added new ATi/AMD Graphics Card Enabler.
4- Added new SMBIOS patcher.
5- Added module system.
6- Added automatic P-States & C-States generation for native power management.
7- Added Booter Log Dump Tool
8- Added Booter message Logging (":/boot-log" ioreg property)
9- Removed -x32 option, use arch=i386 instead
10- Added automatic SMBusspeed detection for lga1156 core i5/7 cpus
11- Added new iMac11,1 sbios default model for lga1156 core i5/17 mobos
12- md0 code. Notified xnu when an md ramdisk is specified
13- Added rollover image support for selected device icons.
14 Use device_<type>_o.png in theme folder. Credits goes to Blackosx.
15- Revisited theme resource embedding. Using the device_<type> icons are optional with
16 the exception of device_generic.
17- Optimized memory detection speed
18- Added displaying source device and partition number for file read operations.
19- Increased boot2's maximum size from 383.5k to 447.5k.
20 Updated stage 1 loaders for handling the new size limit.
21- Added alternate format for setting the default partition. The user can specify the selected
22 volume UUID for the "Default Partition" key.
23- Implemented SPD memory automatic detection and injection,seems to work really great ...
24- Factorized code to prepare a dynamic memory detection algorithm ...
25- Optimized smbios table address search
26- Optimized cursor spinout in textmode if no verbose mode is set
27- Added ram table structures definitions
28- Added getSmbios() a param permitting to select between orig and new smbios entries
29- Changed "Default Partition" behavior to accept only native system volumes or foreign partitions.
30- Added NVIDIA new NVCAP customization support and support for ION gfx cards from aserebln
31- Added ATI new framebuffers support and new cards from PCEFI10.6
32- improved ACPI file search algo by implementing a cache.
33- Nvidia injection fix
34- pciroot would not always return correct uid in autodection mode
35- Fixed the hibernation problem in boot2/resume.c
36- Fixed all new booter versions with SystemType would override the facp value even if correct,
37 now keeps the facp value if correct and no override has been done, implemented a best effort algo.
38 for maximizing the chance to get the most correct value before we decide to use a fixed value (1=desktop)
39- Fixed display cosmetics of UUID, now a convert.c file contains all
40 conversions api, to be completed by function that we should reuse.
41
42- Fixed SystemType would be always forced to a value, now optionally changed
43 only if overriden
44- Kept SystemID as the only option to change manually the system-id
45 For theses reasons, SystemId from bootConfig and SMUUID from smbiosConfig are now DEPRECATED.
46
47- Integrated JrCs fadt patch (kept for RC5 the existing DSDT.aml retry algo that disappeared in his patch, should be more discussed for RC6)
48- Added JrCs modified convention name change to coding_standards
49- Now malloc (ex. MALLOC in Asere patch) is renamed malloc(size) and is an alias
50 to safe_malloc(size, file, line) with _FILE_ and _LINE_ preprocessor definitions
51- Added a new 'Rename Partition Feature', now permitting to rename partition
52 like 'System reserved' to a more meaningful name
53- Added SystemID option permitting to change the System UUID to a fixed value.
54- Added the PciRoot autodetection feature imported from pcefi10.5
55- Added automatic "system-id" injection from dmi bios, also compatible
56 with SystemID boot option and former SMUUID from smbios,plist
57- Added "system-type' automatic injection (1=Desktop) plus override possibility
58 with the new system-type option in bootConfig
59- Added SMserial and SMproductname new options for smbios.plist
60- Merged with asere patch, while keeping my fake_efi.c changes, and adding a new
61 stringForKey() API, also changed the DT__XXXX() set of functions
62 to handle const char * values instead of char*.
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