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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.
-