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This message announces the availability of version 0.9.2 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-0.09pl2.gz in
the "kernel" subdirectory.
The corresponding "bootstrap" program for the Amiga is available in
file amiboot-1.8.gz in the "kernel" subdirectory.
If available, the "bootstrap" program for the Atari will be found in
file "ataboot-0.2.gz" in the "kernel" subdirectory (the author of this
ANNOUNCE-* file cannot compile such a "bootstrap" program and thus is
waiting for one from someone else).
The source patch for the this version of the kernel can be found in
linux-0.9.pl2.diff.gz in the "src" subdirectory.
The changes in this release against 0.9:
- Many changes for Atari support were provided by Andreas Schwab.
This version should work on Atari TT and Falcon computers (once a
bootstrap program is available).
- Inverse video added to the Amiga console device.
- The "reboot" system call works on the Amiga. This also means
that CTRL-ALT-DEL will reboot your machine (careful!).
- Miscellaneous bug fixes (thanks to all who contributed them!)
- First cut at a device driver for the Amiga internal serial port
included. This driver makes use of the "generic" serial driver
support provided by Roman Hodek. Thanks Roman! As part of these
changes, "atari_serial.h" and "atari_serial.c" were renamed to
"serial.c" and "serial.h".
- Some high-level console bug fixes.
- Enhancements to the GVP Series II (Amiga) SCSI controller to
provide for DMA bounce buffers, and to provide a mechanism to
inform the driver that the DMA controller can access the entire 32
bit address space. In order to do this, provide a:
gvp11=0xfffffffe
command line parameter to the Amiga "bootstrap" program. The
default for this driver is to assume that the DMA controller can
only access the 24 bit (ZorroII) address space. If you *know* that
your controller can access 32 bit memory (which is usually the case
if your HD controller is part of your GVP accelerator), then you
can probably use this option.
A small fix was also made to a bug in the GVP driver which could
cause kernel bus errors in SCSI reset situations.
- Support for version 2 of the Minix filesystem was provided by
Andreas Schwab.
- Andreas Schwab provided support for access to the floating point
registers from gdb (this requires changes to gdb as well).
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. Similarly, if you
are using an Atari, you will probably want to reconfigure and
recompile the kernel to exclude the Amiga sources.
Note that I have released binaries for version 0.5a of the ext2
filesystem utilies. This includes a very fast version of the ext2
filesystem integrity checker, fsck.ext2. Older versions of these
utilities should be replaced by these new ones. The new binaries can
be found in the "bin" subdirectory at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/680x0.
Further hints and installation instructions should be gleaned from the
older ANNOUNCE-* files found in the same directory as this one.
Note also that binary distribution of various GNU and Linux source
packages are available from the "bin" subdirectory of the 680x0
archive on tsx-11.mit.edu.