--- Gnu-Mach/NEWS 2020/09/02 04:41:00 1.1.1.2 +++ Gnu-Mach/NEWS 2020/09/02 04:42:30 1.1.1.3 @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +-*- Text -*- + +Changes between version 1.2 and version 1.3 + +The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of multiboot +module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's `serverboot' program. +That is, instead of telling GRUB "module /boot/serverboot", you can give +GRUB a series of command like "module /hurd/ext2fs ${...}" where the +syntax after "module" is the same as in boot scripts for Hurd's `serverboot'. + +The kernel message device `kmsg' is now enabled by default. +--disable-kmsg turns it off. + +Large disks (>= 10GB) are now correctly supported, the new get_status +call DEV_GET_RECORDS can return the number of records of a device. + +Lots of tweaks have been done to the virtual memory management to make +it perform better on today's machines. + +The console supports ANSI escape sequences for colors and attributes. + +Support for the terminal speeds B57600 and B115200 has been added. + + Changes between version 1.1 and version 1.2 Many bug fixes. @@ -37,4 +61,3 @@ Bug in --enable-ncr53c7xx has been fixed Many thanks go to Marcus G. Daniels (marcus@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu) for his very helpful testing of the 1.0 release and for his many improvements to the cross-compilation support. -