What's new in amigaboot.of?

So apparently I'm using a very old version of amigaboot.of because the actual CFE boot volume is hidden so was never updated.

This is what boots my X1000:
amigaboot 53.4 (2010-11-19)

This is what has been installed on my SYS:
amigaboot 53.21 (2016-06-13)

I should copy that new one over to the CFE boot partition, right?
But what's new? Don't want to brick my X1000 ;)

@Deniil

Together with code refactoring, logic and compiler warning fixes, documentation fixes, adding of
installation instructions, that what was changes till 53.21 since 53.4:


- Added support for NGFS
- Made menu display a little quicker, now uses Up/Down arrows
- Fixed a bug in the U-BOOT version that gave a false error indication when loading Kickstart from an NGFS volume and the file size was < 1 sector.
- Rebuilt OF version after a "make clean" to restore proper behaviour for the "Nemo" boot process (red progress bar is compiled only for Nemo board).
- Added provision for SRAM variable "bootable_only" to limit disks searched for inclusion in selection menu (set var to "y", "Y" or "1" to enable).
- Refactored file loading function for easier maintainability.
- Fixed an old bug that prevented the Pegasos II version from working.
- Replaced "isNemo" variable by a "MachineType" variable for expandability.
- Renamed U-Boot version to "amigaboot.ub". Both U-Boot and Open Firmware versions are now released in a single archive.
- Added support for iso9660 filesystem on 512 bytes block devices. This, for instance, allows to boot from iso images that have been raw-copied to a USB stick. <sbauer>
- If no boot source has been found, wait for a keypress to reboot. Before, one had to reset the computer manually. <sbauer>
- The countdown did not really work on Cyrus, fixed.
- Enable L1 data cache if we find it disabled as earily as possible on the X5000
- Don't crash if we get the address of a device tree blob passed in.
- Lowered alignment restriction of sections from 64k to 4k to reduce the size of the binary.
- On UBoot, extract the memory size from the device tree if available.
- Pass UBoot fdt to the loader (new loader will take advantage of it).
- Wrap UBoot fdt blob into a data Resident called 'dtb'.
- Kicklayout parser now ignores all blank lines.
- Included UpdateAmigaBoot command into the distribution

@kas1e

Thanks!

Btw. How is that boot menu built up?
I changed the kicklayout file but the boot menu looks the same. Was that defined in CFE directly, or how was that?

CFE bootmenu is defined in CFE MENU_X_LABEK ans MENU_X_COOMAND env variables.

amigaboot.of has different, its own menu, by default is not visible ( by default is set "amigaboot_quiet y" parameter ) - you see only X1000 screen with color bar.
If you remove amigaboot_quiet=y from MENU_X_COMMAND, you will see what shows amigaboot.of

amigaboot.of search for Kickstart file and inside this file for different module configurations:

Each configuration begins with "LABEL AmigaOS 4.1FE-XYZ"
You can have multiple module configs - I have for example for RadeonHDv3, RadeonHDv5 and RadeonHD debug. You also can boot from different sytem: disks.
By default you have only one configuration and you cannot bother with it.

I am not sure if looks different in previous versions, but it works fine.

@sailor

Yeah. It looks like the first meny has thress options, like Amiga OS4, Boot from CD, and Selection. If I choose Selection I get another meny with my different kicklayouts.

I guess by defualt it always uses the first kicklayout on the media I have selected.

Had forgotten how this was.

So, now let's disable the menus and try to boot blind with my new RX560!