Remove the beta release folder and replace with a symlink to the
'latest' release.
Including beta firmware in the APT release causes unecessary churn
and occasionally causes an issue where a user might end up on an
old and unsupported beta release.
Instead, beta releases are will be feature specific and installed
manually via 'rpi-eeprom-config --edit beta-firmware.bin'
i.e. beta releases will be out-of-package custom firmware releases
downloaded from github. The functionality will be merged into
a new latest/stable release or abandoned.
N.B. The old beta releases have been archived to 'old' but are no
longer included in APT.
* [tryboot] conditional statement + tryboot_a_b mode
* Support custom OTP mac addresses
* Increase TFTP_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE
* Stop NVMe cleanly
* Fixes for NETCONSOLE parsing and initialisation.
* Long filename support for start_file / fixup_file.
* Secure boot and display debug info on the diagnostis screen.
Add a new EEPROM property that allows the Ethernet MAC address
programmed during manufacture to be overridden a value in the
Customer OTP register.
MAC_ADDRESS_OTP=A,B
where A and B are the customer row numbers (0..7)
Enable long-filenames & sub-directories for start_file & fixup_file.
Use Unix path separators with a maximum path of 255 characters.
Relative paths (. or ..) are not supported.
Enable Network Install in the default bootloader release.
This release is signed with the secure-boot key and supports
the new HTTP boot-order for downloading signed boot images for
automated provisioning systems.
* Fix netboot reboot failure on Pi 4B R1.1 if OS enables IDDQ power saving
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/417
* Fix incorrect error code (configuration error) on EEPROM update failure.
* Enable more verbose errors for EEPROM update failures
* Includes new net install feature, enabled by default for Pi 4 and Pi 400
* New net install download screen may appear on boot if a boot location can't
be found or if boot is slow. Alternative press and hold shift on boot to
start net install.
* New HTTP boot order.
* Bootloader diagnosis screen is now 720p if supported by your monitor.
* Self update mode is now enabled during SD/EMMC boot.
* The PARTITION number can now be specified as an EEPROM property.
* Allow smaller MSD discovery timeouts to be specified.
* Some tweaks and fixes to IPV6 netboot.
* Increase the max ramdisk size to 128MB
* Increase timeout of early SD/EMMC commands to 100ms
Net install changes.
* Net install is initiated on boot if shift is pressed.
* New HTTP boot order (7) and configuration parameters,
HTTP_HOST, HTTP_PATH, HTTP_PORT to set url
Other interesting changes.
* Increase the max ramdisk size to 128MB
* Increase timeout of early SD/EMMC commands to 100ms
Net install changes.
* Got rid of confirmation step that required you to press <Space> to
initiate net install. Now just long press <Shift>
* Updated the screen text to make it more obvious the device is still
trying boot when the net install is showing.
* Fixed a DHCP net install bug which caused us to lose the
gateway address.
* Fixed a bug with the uIP timers which could cause net install to
always fail.
* Implemented resume and retry on download failure.
Other interesting changes.
* Allow smaller MSD discovery timeouts to be specified.
* Some tweaks and fixes to IPV6 netboot.
Interesting changes since the last default release
* Support and bug fixes for all Compute Module variants.
* NVMe interoperability fixes
* FAT/GPT fixes and file-system performance improvements.
* Add secure-boot support for industrial applications
See https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/blob/master/secure-boot-recovery/README.md
* Added ramdisk / boot.img - for RPIBOOT and secure-boot.
* Promote the recovery.bin from stable to default. This avoids an
issue where recovery.bin fails to load on large FAT32 boot partions with
32K clusters.
* Improve the error logging if a file is too large and truncated.
* Increase the maximum size of the ramdisk to 96MB.
* Preliminary changes to expose the boot-mode used to load the
ramdisk via device-tree.
N.B. Secure boot is only recommended for industrial customers and is
currently a beta release. This can only be enabled via RPIBOOT
https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/blob/master/Readme.md
* Update the FAT detection to support FAT16 for EFI/ESD paritions with
GPT instead of assuming FAT32. The latest firmware is also required
for a similar update.
* Increase the timeouts for MSD SCSI commands to reduce the risk of
timeouts when probing the capacity of slow to start devices
e.g. USB RAID with spinning disks.
