elilo-3.2 is now available!

I have just released version 3.2 of elilo, the EFI bootloader for Linux/ia64 and Linux/ia32.

Some of the new features:
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- support for multiple choosers (chooser= option)

- a new chooser called textmenu, which uses lineart and colors based on the SYSLINUX message syntax. Documentation and examples are included. contributution from Richard Hirst from LinuxCare.

- support for message= and description= in the config file contributution from Richard Hirst from LinuxCare.

- support for f1=,f2=,.....,f12= options to display a file when a function key is pressed. Textmenu chooser only. contributution from Richard Hirst from LinuxCare.

- a new Linux/ia64 tool, called eliloalt, to create, modify, read the EliloAlt variable used to specify a kernel to boot only once.

- added internal elilo substitution variables:
now command line arguments can be customized at "boot time", which is very handy when netbooting (get IP address, netmask on the fly)

- enhanced simple chooser:
- added support for message=, description=
- added capability to show what will be passed to the kernel for labels (press TAB after label name)
- more line editing commands (CTRL-C=kill line, CTRL-U=clean line)
- pressing '%' shows variables, '?' shows detected boot devices

- IA-32 support fixed to boot 2.2.x AND 2.4.x (probably 2.5.x as well) Contributions from Mike Johnston and Chris Ahna from Intel (my personal thanks to you guys!)

- completely updated documentation. Dedicated document to describe how to boot from the network.

- a lot of bug fixes

Please look at Changelog for more details.

To compile this package on both IA-32 and IA-64, you need gcc3.x and binutils 2.11.90 or higher. Also if you're using anything newer than gcc3.0 release, you need to grab the updated version of the gnu-efi package, i.e., gnu-efi-3.0a, because there were some changes in the way gcc treats constant strings which impact the loader script used to build elilo. You can grab the package at:

	ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz

As usual, I have included precompiled binaries for IA-64 (elilo-ia64.efi) and IA-32 (elilo-ia32.efi). To try the IA-32 version, you need a PC with EFI support. This can either be a native EFI implementation or a PC with a legacy BIOS booted with the EFI floppies from the Intel sample implementation which you can get at:

http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi

The new version of elilo can be downloaded from:

	ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/elilo-3.2.tar.gz

The package has the following MD5 checksum:

	c2d0af444571b14b0dca18e5b37592f4  elilo-3.2.tar.gz

Enjoy,

-Stephane