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This message announces the availability of patch level 3 of version
0.07 of Linux/68k.
It can be ftped from directory /pub/linux/680x0 at tsx-11.mit.edu.
A precompiled kernel executable and the Amiga "bootstrap" program can
be found in kern-0.07pl3.tar.gz in the "kernel" subdirectory. Note
that the new bootstrap program *must* be used to boot the new kernel.
The patch for the kernel source can be found in linux-0.07pl3.diffs.gz
in the "src" subdirectory.
The changes in this release against 0.07pl2 include:
*) Minor Makefile changes
*) New fix to floppy driver to correctly identify drives.
*) Change to the ramdisk code which will hopefully avert the
problems people with 2M initial memory chunks are
having when booting with the 880K ramdisk image.
*) Fix the A2000/A500 real-time clock support. I've been given
to understand that there still may be problems with
revision "A" A2000s. I'm going to create a boot option to
disable the real-time clock support at boot time.
*) Minor memory management changes.
Martin Apel has sent me changes allowing enabling of the 68040 caches
which he's verified and which I will be incorporating into the kernel
sometime soon. Those of you with 68040s will see better performance
then.
DEBUGGING NOTE: The early stages of the kernel startup will send out
characters to the serial port to indicate how far it gets. The serial
port is set to 9600 baud, 8 bits, one stop bit. You'll need a NULL
modem to hook it up to a terminal. The code should assert DTR.