patch-1.3.87 linux/CHANGES

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• Date: Thu Jan 1 02:00:00 1970
• Orig file: v1.3.86/linux/CHANGES
• Orig date: Tue Aug 9 09:32:59 1994

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-CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 15:
-
- - removed all the bugs, of course.
- - networking fixes.
- - more changes than I really wanted..
-
-CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 14:
-
- - too many to count, really.  Besides, I've lost my notes. 
-
-CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 13:
-
- - new kernel source layout: drivers separated
- - lots of networking bugs fixed, and new network card drivers (Alan Cox,
-   Donald Becker &co)
- - sound driver added to the default source distribution (Hannu
-   Savolainen)
- - updated SCSI driver code (Eric Youngdale, Drew Eckhardt &co)
- - readonly OS/2 filesystem support (HPFS) added (Chris Smith)
- - NTP support (Philip Gladstone, Torsten Duwe, ??)
- - fixed 16MB swap-area limit
- - lots of minor cleanups, bugfixes etc.
-
-CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 12 and earlier:
-
- - the bad memory management one-liner bug in pl12 is naturally fixed.
- - compiled with plain C by default instead of C++
- - ELF binary support (Eric Youngdale)
- - Quickport mouse support (and some changes to the PS/2 mouse driver)
-   by Johan Myreen and co)
- - core file name change ("core" -> "core.xxxx" where xxxx is the name
-   of the program that dumped code).  Idea from ???.  Also, core-files
-   now correctly truncate any existing core file before being written.
- - some mmap() fixes: better error returns, and handling of non-fixed
-   maps for /dev/mem etc.
- - one kludgy way to fix the wrong arp packets that have plagued net-2d
-   (resulting in arp packets that had the first four bytes of the
-   ethernet address as the IP address).
- - I fixed the mount-point handling of 'rename()' and 'unlink()/rmdir()'
-   so that they should now work and/or give appropriate error messages.
-   An early version of this patch was already sent to the KERNEL
-   channel, which fixed the rename problem but not a similar bug with
-   unlink.
- - packet mode fixes by Charles Hedrick.  Sadly, these are likely to
-   break old telnet/rlogin binaries, but it had to be done in order to
-   communicate correctly with the rest of the world.
- - FPU emulator patches from Bill Metzenthen.  The fprem1 insn should be
-   correct now (not that anybody seems to have seen the incorrect
-   behaviour..)
- - a few fixes for SCSI (Drew and Eric)
- - signal.c changes to handle multiple segments (for Wine) correctly.
- - updated drivers from Donald Becker: 3c509 and AT1500 drivers, but
-   also some other drivers have been edited, and some networking fixes.
-
-CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 11 and earlier:
-
- - The memory manager cleanup has continued, and seems to be mostly
-   ready, as proven by the ease of adding mmap() over NFS with the new
-   routines.  So yes, the pl12 kernel will demand-load your binaries
-   over NFS, sharing code and clean data, as well as running shared
-   libraries over NFS.  Memory management by Eric and me, while the NFS
-   mmap code was written by Jon Tombs,
-
- - ** IMPORTANT **: The keyboard driver has been enhanced even further,
-   and almost everything is completely re-mappable.  This means that
-   there is a new version of 'loadkeys' and 'dumpkeys' that you must use
-   with this kernel or you'll have problems.  The default keyboard is
-   still the US mapping, but if you want to create your own mappings
-   you'll have to load them with the new binaries.  Get the 'kbd.tar.gz'
-   archive from the same place you get the kernel.
-
-   The new keymappings allow things like function key string changes,
-   remapping of the control keys, and freedom to remap any of the normal
-   keyboard functions: including special features like rebooting,
-   console switching etc.  The keyboard remapping code has been done
-   mostly by Risto Kankkunen (Risto.Kankkunen@Helsinki.FI).
-
- - updated network drivers by Donald Becker
-
- - updated serial drivers - tytso@Athena.mit.edu
-
- - updated 387 emulation (Bill Metzenthen).  The updated emulator code
-   has more exact trigonometric functions and improved exception
-   handling.  It now behaves very much like a real 486, with only small
-   changes (greater accuracy, slightly different denormal NaN handling
-   etc - hard to detect the differences even if you are looking for
-   them).
-
- - network timer fixes by Florian La Roche (much cleaned up net/inet/timer.c
-   and some bad race-conditions fixed).
-
- - Scsi code updates by Eric Youngdale and others
-
- - Sony CDU-31A CDROM driver by Corey Minyard added to the standard
-   kernel distribution.
-
- - The Mitsumi CDROM driver is now part of the standard kernel.  Driver
-   by Martin Harriss with patches by stud11@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (yes, he
-   probably has a real name, but no, I haven't found it) and Jon Tombs.
-
- - various other minor patches (preliminary ldt support etc)
-
-NOTABLE changes since patchlevel 10 or earlier:
-
- - The memory manager has been cleaned up substantially, and mmap()
-   works for MAP_PRIVATE.  MAP_SHARED is still not supported for
-   anything else than /dev/mem, but even so it actually is usable for a
-   lot of applications.  The shared library routines have been rewritten
-   to use mmap() instead of the old hardcoded behaviour.
-
- - The kernel is now compiled with C++ instead of plain C.  Very few
-   actual C++ features are used, but even so C++ allows for more
-   type-checking and type-safe linkage.
-
- - The filesystem routines have been cleaned up for multiple block
-   sizes.  None of the filesystems use it yet, but people are working on
-   it.
-
- - named pipes and normal pipes should hopefully have the right select()
-   semantics in the presence/absence of writers.
-
- - QIC-02 tape driver by Hennus Bergman
-
- - selection patches in the default kernel
-
- - fixed a bug in the pty code which led to busy waiting in some
-   circumstances instead of sleeping.
-
- - Compressed SLIP support (Charles Hedrick). See net/inet/CONFIG
-
- - the 'clear_bit()' function was changed to return the previous setting
-   of the bit instead of the old "error-code".  This makes use of the
-   bit operations more logical.
-
- - udelay() function for short delays (busy-waiting) added.  Used
-   currently only by the QIC driver.
-
- - fork() and scheduler changes to make task switches happen only from
-   kernel mode to kernel mode.  Cleaner and more portable than the old
-   code which counted on being able to task-switch directly into user
-   mode.
-
- - debugging malloc code.