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This message announces the availability of version 0.9.1 of Linux/68k.
It can be ftped from directory /pub/linux/680x0 at tsx-11.mit.edu.
A precompiled kernel executable can be found in vmlinux-0.09pl1.gz in
the "kernel" subdirectory.
The corresponding "bootstrap" program for the Amiga is availalble in
file bootstrap-1.8.gz in the "kernel" subdirectory.
The source patch for the this version of the kernel can be found in
linux-0.9.pl1.diff.gz in the "src" subdirectory.
The changes in this release against 0.9:
- The "reboot" system call works on the Amiga. This also means
that CTRL-ALT-DEL will reboot your machine (careful!).
- The sources for the Amiga bootstrap version 1.8 were not included
in 0.9. They are included here.
- A small bug in drivers/char/mouse.c was fixed (thanks to
sgoddy@cix.compulink.co.uk)
- A new boot command line option was added (wd33c93=...) which allows
one to prevent the negotiation of asynchronous scsi for WD33C93
based SCSI drivers. This option is specified on the "bootstrap"
command line, like the "ro" and "video=" options.
This was required because some SCSI targets extremely dislike
synchronous SCSI negotiation. If 0.08pl3 worked on your machine,
but 0.9 gave SCSI errors, you might want to try using this option.
To use this option, determine the SCSI target number of the SCSI
device(s) for which you want to inhibit asynchronous SCSI
negotiation. Then construct a number by setting the "target"th
bit if you want to inhibit for that target.
Thus, to inhibit target 0, your number would be 0. To inhibit
target 6, your number would be 64. To inhibit targets 1 and 5,
your number would be 34 (2 + 32).
Do this for the targets of each WD33C93 based controller you have
in your machine (1 controller in most cases).
Then, construct a command line argument looking like:
wd33c93=n1[,n2,n3]
The code for each controller is specified, separated by
commas.
Thus, if you have only one controller, and you want to inhibit on
targets 1 and 6, you would specify:
wd33c93=65
The precompiled kernel executable includes an Atari configuration, so
if you are using an Amiga, you will probably want to reconfigure and
recompile the kernel to exclude the Atari sources.
Further hints and installation instructions should be gleaned from the
older ANNOUNCE-* files found in the same directory as this one.
One small note though: If you plan to use the minix and ext2
filesystems, and you have the older mkfs and fsck programs (from
0.08pl2 or earlier), you must upgrade to the versions found either in
the new-filesys.gz filesystem image, or the "tools" subdirectory on
tsx-11.mit.edu.
Note also that binary distribution of various source packages are
available from the "bin" subdirectory of the 680x0 archive on
tsx-11.mit.edu.