Changes from 1.1.82 to 1.1.83

These changes are archived on ftp.crynwr.com:pub/kchanges and http://www.crynwr.com/kchanges. I cannot answer questions about Linux -- I merely summarize the kernel patches after reading them. I try to make them useful to everyone, but kernel hackers should take them with a grain of salt and read the patches themselves. The patch file is patch83.gz

• Ralf Baechle, Michael Neuffer, and Niibe Yutaka added to CREDITS.
• Aztech/Orchid/Okano/Wearnes (non IDE) CDROM support added to i386/config.in.
• Spell check, spell check, spell check.
• Threads didn't have their cs and ds set correctly.
• More mips and alpha improvements.
• On the CDU31a, if one track was changed, they were all changed. Also, there is noting special about multisession on this drive.
• Remove the CDROMMULTISESSION_SYS ioctl from the sbpcd driver.
• Console driver didn't invert the screen correctly.
• When starting up the console, clear to end of screen.
• Don't do a TIOCLINUX on anything but a console terminal.
• Don't deallocate key map zero (that would be BAD).
• If they change the key map for any shift key, recompute the shift state.
• DE-600 and DE-620 now check, request, and release their I/O region.
• DE-620 now has two command line parameters == "bnc=1" or "utp=1".
• SCSI disk driver now returns an error on requesting a non-existant partition.
• SCSI cd-rom driver increasess timeout.
• Fudge the sectorsize calculation until we can get it right.
• Filesystem buffer disposition simplified.
• Memory mapping of executables cleaned up.
• Missed a place in the ext fs where we should have dirtied the file entry.
• A find_vma subroutine was added to find a particular address in the map (removed a lot of code where everyone did it themselves by hand).
• Remove 4K limit for the maps file.
• Remember to mark a sysv inode as dirty if we've accessed it.
• Same for xiafs.
• Put shared memory into a circular list.

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