This announces the availability of version 0.9.7 of Linux/68k. The
source and a precompiled kernel are in /pub/linux/680x0 on
tsx-11.mit.edu.

0.9.7 comes very fast after 0.9.6, because there were troubles
patching the 0.9.5 sources due to some whitespace differences. It
seems very likely that many people now have different sources trees,
which makes it hard to build and apply further patches. So I decided
to release this version as a whole source tree, not only as a patch.
There is a patch also, but beware: It is relative to how _my_ 0.9.6
sources look like, which needn't be the same as yours. Most propably,
you will get some rejects when patching.

For the main part, I merged in Martin's net and module patches, that
were relative to 0.9.5 with patches up to #19. Most of this wasn't a
problem, but both, Martin and Hamish, integrated PPP. I took Martin's
version, because I've seen module support in them. But Hamish'
ppp.[ch] stated 0.2.8 as version number, whereas Martin's and the
PC-Linux 1.2.8 sources have version 0.2.7 ?!? I don't know what
happened here, so if I made a mistake, tell me please.

Summary of changes against the last version:

 - Integrated PPP, the newest version of kernel modules, and updated
   the net code to 1.2.8 level (Martin_Schaller@r.maus.de)

 - Moved a "#endif /* CONFIG_SELECTION */" in tty_ioctl.c so that the
   kernel can be compiled without console cut&paste
   (itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.de)

 - Replaced a wrong <= by < in concole.c, invert_screen()
   (Martin_Schaller@r.maus.de)

 - Scatter-gather for the Amiga A2091 and GVP11 SCSI cards
   (jshiffle@netcom.com)

 - Several minor Atari stuff: the console bold effect now works
   together with inverse; correct bytes_per_row if xres !=
   xres_virtual; test feature vector before accessing the Microwire
   device; minor changes in the hardware detection (is the Microwire
   still detected on a Falcon?, is the CODEC now correctly detected?);
   remove a race condition in the Falcon SCSI locking; abort a SCSI
   DMA transfer before a SCSI reset; various spelling errors fixed
   (guenther@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)

The precompiled kernel contains both, Amiga and Atari support, so it
is very big. You propably want to compile your own kernel configured
to your personal needs. Note also that there have been some problems
reported with booting such big kernels by Amiga Lilo.

Roman