The main purpose of this commit is to allow the developer
or tester the ability to specify /dev/loop0 .. /dev/loopn on the
kernel command line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg and /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg
where n is unlimited, although it is recommended that no more
than 20-30 loop devices are specified. The loop devices are of a
fixed size alternating between 500Kbytes and 1 MByte in size. Due
to their small size you would typically select 500 or 1000 rounds
when testing. To create loop devices append the following to
grub.cfg nwipe_options='--nousb /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 ... /dev/loopn'
loop devices should be sequential starting at loop0, any break in
the sequence will cause creation of loop devices to stop.
This commit also includes a ffmpeg module
+BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG_SWSCALE=y for creation of
videos of the display. This may be useful for creating
training material, youtube videos etc using the command
ffmpeg -f fbdev -framerate 30 -i /dev/fb0 output.mp4
Initial work was started on excluding the boot disc if
the following shredos_exclude_boot_disc is appended
to the kernel command line.
discs including Ventoy.
2. The delay ShredOS introduces while it waits for USB devices to initialise
previously printed a period symbol every second to show somethink was
happening, instead, it now counts down numerically from 30. Most USB
devices have initialised after about 10-15 seconds.
3. Two new kernel command line options are introduced. The first allows the
user to determine whether PDF, log and dmesg files are sent using tftp or
ftp protocols.
i.e shredos_config=ftp:192.168.0.2:/home/joe/ftpdata/:jo:488993d:d
4. The second kernel command line option is:
shredos_output=ftp:192.168.0.2:/home/joe/ftpdata/:jo:488993d:d which
determines where the nwipe config files are retrieved from on ShredOS boot
and saved on nwipe exit.
5. Added package openssh for sftp support
6. Added package telnetd which had inadvertently been removed on the last update.
Added the commands tmux2 tmux4 tmux6 tmux8 which each creates a
tmux session with either 2, 4, 6 or 8 panes (terminals). Useful
when you want to run multiple nwipes simultaneously with each nwipe
wiping one drives. Useful for hotswapping.
Added Numachip support
Added ScaleMP vSMP
Added Locale, locale -a now works.
Added en_US.UTF-8 as required by tmux
Added tmux to allow the creation of multiple terminals viewable
simultaneously.
Added the command tmux4 which creates a 4 panes (terminals) in the
virtual terminal. This allows multiple nwipes /dev/sdx to be run
simultaneously for those that like to run one wipe in each terminal
for hot swapping.
Added DirectFB drivers for ATI128, Matrox and I830.
Added ascii_invaders for something to do while those discs wipe.
Increased size of FAT32 to 130MB with about 14MB free for PDF
wipe reports and logs.
Bumped minor version 23.1 to 23.2
