This announces the release of Linux/68k-2.0.28.

This release is compatible with the native 2.0.28 kernel.

This is mainly a driver-update and bugfix release as the native
patches from 2.0.25 to 2.0.28 do not contain large changes to code the
affecting the m68k. Besides it has been exactly two months since the
last 2.0.25 release.

Here is a list of the most important changes:

Jesper Skov:
 o New SCSI driver for the Phase 5 Fastlane controller.
 o General cleanups to the Amiga NCR53c9x drivers. This should avoid
   SCSI controllers being detected on the Blizzard 1230IV/1260 and
   Cyberstorm MkII when no SCSI controller is present.
 o We forgot to re-enable interrupts in the IDE driver when no IDE
   disks were found. This would make the kernel hang on systems with
   an IDE controller but without any IDE disks installed.

Chris Lawrance:
 o Added the nodma option for the GVP SCSI controllers to
   Configuration.Help.

Frank Neumann: (well I think this patch originated from Frank ;)
 o Patch to the Cybervision64 driver to make the CV64 Xserver work.

Myself:
 o Some GVP ram boards tend to use the same product code as the SCSI
   controllers. GVP boards which are not 68KB long are now
   considered to be ram-boards and ignored by the SCSI driver.
 o The wd33c93 driver did not disable interrupts when messing with its
   data-structures (runqueue etc.). This and the fact that scsi_done()
   may exit with interrupts enabled could cause some nasty crashes.
   Debugging is again been enabled by default in the wd33c93 driver.
 o The ext2fs code now prints a warning when detecting an old
   big-endian ext2 filesystem, telling that support for this
   filesystem will go away in future kernels.

The new kernel as well as a set of pre-compiled kernels, one for the
Atari and one for the Amiga (vmlinux-2.0.28-Atari.tar.gz and
vmlinux-2.0.28-Amiga.tar.gz respectively) are available at
SunSITE.auc.dk, under /pub/os/linux/680x0/v2.0.

01/15/97 Jes Sorensen (jds@kom.auc.dk).

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