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    [PATCH] Linux-0.97.5 (September 12, 1992) · 06d9f6ff
    Linus Torvalds authored
    SCSI CD-ROM support by David Giller (based on sd.c by Drew)
    
    Microsoft Busmouse support by Teemu Rantanen
    
    Do the same buffer cleanups to extfs that we just did to Minixfs.
    
    Efficient VGA emulation in dosemu wanted to know when we write
    to the pseudo-VGA memory area. Add vm86 mode hooks for that.
    
    [Original announcement below]
    
    Patch 5 fixes the extended filesystem problems (thanks to Remy Card), as
    well as including many smaller fixes (some more fs cleanups, the CDROM
    patches and several other minor changes).  Pl5 finally removes even the
    last few header-files that were incompatible with the normal headers, so
    the "-nostdinc -I$(KERNELHDRS)" stuff is gone.
    
    Patch 5 should also fix the problems with iopl() that resulted in the
    X8514-server having problems with 0.97.pl2 and above.
    
    In case people are wondering, my schedule for 1.0 looks something like
    this:
    
     - 0.98 out in about a week: this is essentially 0.97.5 + the tcp/ip
       directory, as well as any fixes that may come up.  I'll try to get
       the loadable driver interface into it too.
    
     - 0.99 out after 0.98 has been shaken down: a month or so.
    
     - 1.0 will be the same as 0.99: the only changes will be eventual
       trivial bug-fixes in case 0.99 has some problems.  This is just to
       try to get over the "X.0" bug syndrome.
    
    There are a few on-going projects: depending on circumstances these will
    be implemented sooner or later, so I won't give any promises.  These
    include: loadable drivers/fs's (alpha-patches already availabla), full
    support for different block-sizes (some work still required), and a
    extensive rewrite of the mm routines (I'll want to make a vmm interface
    similar to the vfs interface for the filesystem routines).
    
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