Changes from 1.1.92 to 1.1.93

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 patch93.gz

• Check for a BIOS32 (PCI) Service Directory entry that's not in the low 1MB.
• Changes to the Sparc entry point code.
• Changes to the Sparc IRQ handler.
• IDE README says that "single" drives should be jumpered as "master", not "slave".
• New IDE driver, Version 3.12, simplifies logic for selecting initial mult_count (fixes problems with buggy WD drives)
• Whoops! We weren't doing the 250ms selection timeout properly for the 53c7,8xx SCSI driver.
• Some Emacs variables added to SCSI files so that the tabbing would stay consistent with the One True Master's style.
• PCMCIA code for QLogic improved to version 0.40a.
• Added "HITACHI","DK312C","CM81" to SCSI blacklist (responds to all LUN).
• Use kmalloc for SCSI structures instead of local variables, but keep the code around in case it's needed (under USE_STATIC_SCSI_MEMORY).
• Reduce SCSI disk latency by unconditionally turning interrupts on.
• Recognize SCSI CD drives that don't do multisession.
• Print an error on any SCSI tape abnormal conditions.
• Differentiate between SCSI tape read retries and write retries (default to 0 write retries).
• Be sure to free kernel memory onto the right free memory list.
• Fix a bug in the memory mapper code.
• Clean up code in swapper.
• Do more work on closing sockets reliably.

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