vblade/NEWS

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2018-08-25 Christoph Biedl <sourceforge.bnwi@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
	Print helpful error and exit immediately for missing device
	vblade-24

2017-11-19 Catalin Salgau <csalgau@users.sourceforge.net>
	On FreeBSD limit used MTU to address BPF limitation

2015-06-14 Ed Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org>
	Add convenience script for creating sparse files
	vblade-23

2015-02-25 Catalin Salgau <csalgau@users.sourceforge.net>
	Warn about Windows problem with CHS misalignment

2014-09-13 Ed Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org>
	code cleanup: remove unused variables

2014-08-10 Ed Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org>
	vblade-22

2014-06-08 Ed Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org>
	update version for v22 release candidate 1
	buffer boundary cleanups
	FreeBSD BPF and MTU fixes from Catalin Salgau
	offset and size options by Christoph Biedl
	vblade-22rc1

2013-03-18 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	add big-endian support from Daniel Mealha Cabrita <dancab@gmx.net>
	vblade-21

2009-08-14 Sam Hopkins <sah@coraid.com>
	bugfix: aoe command error did not set Error bit in flags
	add support for AoEr11
	set ident serial to shelf.slot:hostname
	vblade-20

2008-10-08 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	add Chris Webb's bpf fix for FreeBSD
	add Ryan Thomas's fix to stop bufcnt being overridden
	vblade-19
	
2008-07-14 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	add Chris Webb's block device options patch
	add Chris Webb's socket options patch for better jumbo handling
	remove obsolete contrib/o_direct.diff
	vblade-18

2008-06-09 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	add Chris Webb's latest BPF patch to vblade, remove from contrib
	update contributed AIO patch for compatibility with current sources
	vblade-17
	
2008-05-07 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	add Chris Webb's AIO patch to the contributions
	add Chris Webb's BPF patch to the contributions
	vblade-16

2008-02-20 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	require the amount of data we use, not the amount ethernet requires
	make sure the packet length agrees with the config query length
	make sure the packet length agrees with the amount to write
	remove newline embedded in fw version field of ATA dev ID response
	vblade-15
	
2006-11-20 Sam Hopkins <sah@coraid.com>
	apply contrib jumbo patch to standard distribution
	add jumbo configuration app. note in README
	add jumbo README reference to manpage
	add mask feature; -m flag
	update manpage to describe -m flag
	vblade-14

2006-10-05 Sam Hopkins <sah@coraid.com>
	fix confcmd memcpy bug
	correct scnt return value in read/write ata response
	replace O_RDONLY fallback with explicit stat.  root always wins.
	vblade-13

2006-10-04 Sam Hopkins <sah@coraid.com>
	fix confcmd buglets
	fix atacmd buglets
	add atacmd handling for bad argument errors
	add O_RDONLY open if O_RDWR fails
	add contrib patch directory
	add contrib/README
	add jumbo patch to contrib
	add o_direct patch to contrib
	vblade-12

2006-09-21 "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
	add install target for makefile
	vblade-11
	
2005-12-06 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	fix u64 configuration on FreeBSD
	release vblade-10
	
2005-12-06 Valeriy Glushkov <valery@rocketdivision.com>
	implemented config string support
	added handler for ATA Check power mode command
	
2005-11-15 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	add compatibility with platforms lacking u64 (e.g., Slackware)
	release vblade-9
	
2005-11-10 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	call atainit on program startup
	put VBLADE_VERSION in dat.h and use it in firmware version
	release vblade-7
	include Stacey's patch to use p{read,write} on FreeBSD
	include Stacey's patch to typedef ulong on FreeBSD
	fix makefile dependencies (e.g., rebuild on new aoe.c)
	fix config string length specification
	include Stacey's patch to avoid compile warnings on FreeBSD
	release vblade-8
	
2005-11-10 "Stacey D. Son" <sson@verio.net>
	include FreeBSD support
	
2005-10-03 Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	don't invoke vblade with dash from vbladed
	
2005-08-31 20:14:12 GMT Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	ATA identify: don't juggle bytes in shorts on big endian arch
	add manpage for vblade, vbladed
	release vblade-6
	
2005-03-17 15:24:30 GMT	Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	follow up on vblade-2's off-by-one patch, making end of device usable
	release vblade-5
	
2005-03-15 22:03:17 GMT	Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	don't rely on kernel headers for defining the aoe type 0x88a2
	release vblade-4
	
2005-03-15 17:27:01 GMT	Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	docs: aoe-2.6-7 is the first driver to support multiple blades per mac
	release vblade-3
	
2005-03-11 18:30:26 GMT	Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	put 64-bit configuration into config.h file
	don't use uninitialized variables
	broadcast config query on startup
	clarify desired patch format in HACKING
	add sah@coraid.com's vblade-1.ata.c.patch: fix off-by-one and ext LBA
	add docs, remove daemonizing code from vblade
	release vblade-2
	
2005-02-08 20:21:52 GMT	Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
	starting documentation
	add script that daemonizes vblade process, logging output
	make vblade sources -Wall clean, use daemon(3)
	release vblade-1