* GPT PReP.
* New `progress' module that shows progress information while reading
files.
+ * ZFS features support.
+ * ZFS LZ4 support.
* New/improved terminal and video support:
* Monochrome text (matching `hercules' in GRUB Legacy).
* Enable `linux16' on all x86 platforms, not just BIOS.
* New TrueCrypt ISO loader.
* multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification.
+ * multiboot2 EFI memory map specification.
* multiboot2 full-file specfication.
* New/improved network support:
* Ability to launch another payload from flash or disk
* Coreboot framebuffer
* CBMEMC support (both logging and inspecting logs)
- * Inspecting coreboot timestamps.
- * Inspecting coreboot tables.
+ * Command for inspecting coreboot timestamps (`coreboot_boottime').
+ * Command for inspecting coreboot tables (`lscoreboot').
+ * New target default_payload.elf.
+ * Increased maximal core size.
* New/improved platform support:
* New `efifwsetup' and `lsefi' commands on EFI platforms.
* New `cmosdump' and `cmosset' commands on platforms with CMOS support.
+ * New command `pcidump' for PCI platforms.
* Improve opcode parsing in ACPI halt implementation.
* Use the TSC as a possible time source on i386-ieee1275.
* Merge PowerPC grub-mkrescue implementation with the common one.
* Support Yeeloong 3A.
* Add `cpuid --pae' option to detect Physical Address Extension on x86.
* Support for USB debug dongles.
+ * Support for *-emu on all platforms (previously only i386/x86_64 worked).
+ * Support *-emu on Windows.
* Security:
* Add optional facility to enforce that all files read by the core image
* Initialise USB ports in parallel.
* New `testspeed' command to test file read speed.
* Speed-up gfxterm by storing intermediate results in more compact format.
+ * Lazy LVM/mdraid scan.
+ * Disk hints.
* Scripting:
* New `eval' and `tr' commands.
* grub-install, grub-mknetdir, grub-mkrescue, and grub-mkstandalone
rewritten in C. They should now work in supported non-Unix-like
environments.
- * Native mingw support, including ability to install on EFI under windows.
+ * Native mingw support.
+ * Ability to install on EFI under windows.
* Reorganise timeout handling using new `timeout_style' environment
variable and `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE' configuration key for grub-mkconfig.
Menu hotkeys pressed during a hidden timeout now boot the corresponding
* Partial mingw64 x86_64-efi compile support (highly experimental).
* Partial mingw32 i386-* (other than already present i386-pc)
compile support (highly experimental).
+ * Support for grub-mkpasswd on Windows.
* Eliminate the use of AutoGen. This allowed some performance
improvements to the build system.
* Remove variable length arrays.