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@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ +Changes from version 1.1: + +The interface generator `MiG' has been split out. + +Linux drivers are updated to 2.0.36. + +The kernel message device `kmsg' is supported. --enable-kmsg turns on +the device. + +The parallel driver is enabled by --enable-lpr. + +New make targets, install-kernel and install-headers are added. The +former will install only the kernel, and the latter will install only +the header files. + +Print out Mach device names instead of Linux ones. + + Changes from version 1.0: Cross-compilation support is much improved. Any of various popular @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -*- Text -*- -This is the GNU mach 1.1 distribution. +This is the GNU mach 1.2 distribution. This kernel is derived from the Utah kernel source. We use it to run the Hurd on. It is being distributed by us so that we can more easily @@ -11,13 +11,9 @@ this distribution. For libraries, we refer you to the GNU C library, which has Mach support. For bootloaders, we refer you to GRUB. (This kernel can be loaded by any bootloader that uses the multiboot standard.) For default pagers, we refer you to your particular system -that you will run on top of Mach. The upcoming Hurd distribution -(version 0.2) will contain the code that used to be in the Utah kernel -distributions for doing the work of the default pager. +that you will run on top of Mach. -The interface generator `MiG' is still part of this distribution. -Perhaps at some later point it will be split out, as it surely should -be. +The interface generator `MiG' is no longer part of this distribution. Generic installation instructions may be found in the file INSTALL. @@ -36,11 +32,15 @@ debugging the kernel, of course. We don't turn it on be default because it adds considerably to the unpageable memory footprint of the kernel. +If you want to use the kmsg device, specify --enable-kmsg to +configure. It is disabled by default, because we assume that it is +unstable and there is no appropriate translator for it. + The specific switches you give to configure are always recorded in the file `config.status'. So you can always tell what options you used to build a particular kernel. Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to -bug-hurd@prep.ai.mit.edu. Requests for assistance should be made on -help-hurd@prep.ai.mit.edu. +bug-hurd@gnu.org. Requests for assistance should be made on +help-hurd@gnu.org. |