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Annotation of Gnu-Mach/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.2

1.1.1.2 ! root        1: Changes between version 1.1 and version 1.2
        !             2: 
        !             3: Many bug fixes.
        !             4: 
        !             5: The task_basic_info RPC now has an additional field, holding the
        !             6: creation time of the task.  Likewise for thread_basic_info.
        !             7: 
        !             8: The interface generator `MiG' has been split out.
        !             9: 
        !            10: Partition names for disks are now printed in the correct way.
        !            11: 
        !            12: Linux drivers are updated to 2.0.36.  Many thanks to Okuji Yoshinori
        !            13: for great work here.  The Linux emulation support is much improved.
        !            14: 
        !            15: The kernel message device `kmsg' is supported. --enable-kmsg turns on
        !            16: the device.
        !            17: 
        !            18: The parallel driver is enabled by --enable-lpr.
        !            19: 
        !            20: New make targets, install-kernel and install-headers are added. The
        !            21: former will install only the kernel, and the latter will install only
        !            22: the header files.
        !            23: 
        !            24: Print out Mach device names instead of Linux ones.
        !            25: 
        !            26: 
        !            27: Changes between versions 1.0 and 1.1:
1.1       root       28: 
                     29: Cross-compilation support is much improved.  Any of various popular
                     30: libc's is now sufficient for building clib-routines.o.
                     31: 
                     32: New configure option --enable-kdb asks for kernel debugger to be
                     33: compiled in.
                     34: 
                     35: Bug in --enable-ncr53c7xx has been fixed.
                     36: 
                     37: Many thanks go to Marcus G. Daniels ([email protected]) for
                     38: his very helpful testing of the 1.0 release and for his many
                     39: improvements to the cross-compilation support.
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