* After examining MacOS toolbox roms, I think i've got
this nailed down. The MacOS Toolbox rom contains chrp
code at the top and binary code at the bottom.
* The Raw format for the chrp seemed to cause issues with the
OpenFirmware boot process on some systems. NetBSD uses a '-'
file type.
* The format of the chrp seems a lot more sensitive across machines
than described. Ensure our returns and spaces are even.
* Booting with the 'c' key is still working on my older OpenFirmware
machine with the chrp script. The bitmap logo is a half black, half
white box.
* I removed the &device; alias for now for troubleshooing. It also may
of been causing compatibility issues. More testing is needed.
* It seems like not all NewWorld OpenFirmware
versions support booting from CHRP scripts.
* Move Haiku elf bootloader into bootloader.b
type tbxi. As it is in the blessed directory
it is picked up by cd:,\\:tbxi
* Adjust bootinfo.txt to point to bootloader
&device; ensures that the image can be started
regardless of source media
* Adjust bootinfo.txt to use \\ as base. \\ is an
alias for the blessed folder on the boot media
* Rename ofboot.b to ofboot.chrp to avoid confusion
* Add .txt, .html to hfs.map to identify them properly
* The haiku-boot-cd-ppc.iso now boots on my G3 PowerBook
by holding the 'c' key at startup. The boot menu colors
are incorrect (white background) but it is a step in
the right direction.
* New chrp script. Blank icon for the moment, if someone
could figure out how to make a chrp icon that would be
neat.
* Tested working on qemu and real hardware. Need to test
on a more modern PowerPC Mac however.
* Switch bash, debugger, less, telnet[d] and top apps to use termcap
functionality provided by ncurses lib instead of GNU libtermcap.so;
* NetBSD version of tput utility replaced with ncurses' one. Fixes#9606;
* terminfo database is provided as mandatory package installed during
building target system;
* Remove libtermcap module. The termcap database source and
corresponding build rules are not removed to provide backward compatibility -
until all optional packages will be rebuild on upcoming system version
using terminfo. Note that gcc2 builds may require to provide termcap a bit
longer in the sake of binary compatibility with R5 era apps.
* add vesa.accelerant, vesa driver, ps2, isa, bios, generic_x86 for x86_64 too
* only have reiserfs, firewire, agp_gart targets for x86
* reverted hrev43950, liblocale alias shouldn't be needed anymore
Apparently it isn't ready yet. I haven't found a single syslog on Trac
that shows a successful initialization of the driver, and on my
machine, where it does that at least, the system freezes during boot.
* Updated to version 2.0 of vendor code.
* Reliability improvements in controlling the underlying devices.
* Implement leaving networks.
* Better timeout handling.
* Usability enhancements like cancel on escape, ok button being the
default and the password field having focus on start.
* Storing of the password using BKeyStore.
It's sufficient to simply check if the gcc version is 4 or higher since
we enforce the use of the latest ported compiler for the build anyways,
and these multi-level checks would fail in their current state if gcc
moved to e.g. version 5.0.
Added the optional package for system sounds that
were collected for GCI 2012. Also added the demo
packges to the "contents" at the top of OptionalPackages.
* Tried to use EFI::Header class, but there doesn't seem to be an easy
way to actually hit the disk -- which we'll have to do to find out
how large the GPT table is.
* Initialization of GPT disks is now working which is why I added the disk
system add-on to the image. However, there is a caveat, as the backup
header and table aren't written yet.
* Partitions can be deleted.
* Creating partitions does not work yet, but I don't know yet why; in
theory it could already work.
..and Haiku64Image. While I'm at it split the commands so each letter
in the alphabet gets it's own line(s). This will make these kinds of
changes more atomic in the future.
* Version of Vim package for x86_64 added;
* Version of KeymapSwitcher package for x86_64 added;
* KeymapSwitcher package fixed to preserve Cmd <-> Ctrl swap settings on
keymaps switch. Fixes#9142;
* UnRAR updated from 3.7.8 to 4.2.4, fixed for multibyte characters
support and build for x86_64. Partially fixes#4879;
Alexander von Gluck IV