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Annotation of OSKit-Mach/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: -*- Text -*-
                      2: 
                      3: Changes between version 1.2 and version 1.3
                      4: 
                      5: The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of multiboot
                      6: module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's `serverboot' program.
                      7: That is, instead of telling GRUB "module /boot/serverboot", you can give
                      8: GRUB a series of command like "module /hurd/ext2fs ${...}" where the
                      9: syntax after "module" is the same as in boot scripts for Hurd's `serverboot'.
                     10: 
                     11: The kernel message device `kmsg' is now enabled by default.
                     12: --disable-kmsg turns it off.
                     13: 
                     14: Large disks (>= 10GB) are now correctly supported, the new get_status
                     15: call DEV_GET_RECORDS can return the number of records of a device.
                     16: 
                     17: Lots of tweaks have been done to the virtual memory management to make
                     18: it perform better on today's machines.
                     19: 
                     20: The console supports ANSI escape sequences for colors and attributes.
                     21: 
                     22: Support for the terminal speeds B57600 and B115200 has been added.
                     23: 
                     24: 
                     25: Changes between version 1.1 and version 1.2
                     26: 
                     27: Many bug fixes.
                     28: 
                     29: The task_basic_info RPC now has an additional field, holding the
                     30: creation time of the task.  Likewise for thread_basic_info.
                     31: 
                     32: The interface generator `MiG' has been split out.
                     33: 
                     34: Partition names for disks are now printed in the correct way.
                     35: 
                     36: Linux drivers are updated to 2.0.36.  Many thanks to Okuji Yoshinori
                     37: for great work here.  The Linux emulation support is much improved.
                     38: 
                     39: The kernel message device `kmsg' is supported. --enable-kmsg turns on
                     40: the device.
                     41: 
                     42: The parallel driver is enabled by --enable-lpr.
                     43: 
                     44: New make targets, install-kernel and install-headers are added. The
                     45: former will install only the kernel, and the latter will install only
                     46: the header files.
                     47: 
                     48: Print out Mach device names instead of Linux ones.
                     49: 
                     50: 
                     51: Changes between versions 1.0 and 1.1:
                     52: 
                     53: Cross-compilation support is much improved.  Any of various popular
                     54: libc's is now sufficient for building clib-routines.o.
                     55: 
                     56: New configure option --enable-kdb asks for kernel debugger to be
                     57: compiled in.
                     58: 
                     59: Bug in --enable-ncr53c7xx has been fixed.
                     60: 
                     61: Many thanks go to Marcus G. Daniels ([email protected]) for
                     62: his very helpful testing of the 1.0 release and for his many
                     63: improvements to the cross-compilation support.

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