GNU-EFI-0.8 is available

Hi,

I just made available from the HPLabs external ftp site a new version of the gnu-efi package which allows you to develop EFI applications using the GNU tools under Linux.

This package also contains the LILO for EFI/IA64 bootloader.

This new version updates LILO only. Some of the new features are:

* created a documentation file (lilo.txt)
* fixed a couple of memory leaks
* code cleanups
* created a separate directory for lilo
* added support for the BOOT_IMAGE argument to kernel
* default is to build natively now
* rewrote getopt.c

In this package, I have included a binary for lilo called lilo.efi. There seems to be a problem with the current GNU toolchain where some binaries don't get recognized properly by EFI. I will try to track this down some more.

Let me know if you're having problems with this version.

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Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> writes:

|> I just made available from the HPLabs external ftp site a new version
|> of the gnu-efi package which allows you to develop EFI applications
|> using the GNU tools under Linux.

What is the copyright status of the package? While it contains a few files that licenced under the GPL, many are not.

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