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okuji 012d7999fe 2003-01-03 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org>
* util/i386/pc/pupa-setup.c (setup): Define the internal
	function find_first_partition_start at the top level, because GCC
	3.0.x cannot compile internal functions in deeper scopes
	correctly.
	(find_root_device): Use lstat instead of stat.
	Don't follow symbolic links.
	Fix the path-constructing code.

	* util/i386/pc/biosdisk.c [__linux__] (BLKFLSBUF): New macro.
	(pupa_util_biosdisk_open) [__linux__]: Get the size of a device
	by a BLKGETSIZE ioctl first, because block devices don't fill
	the member st_mode of the structure stat on Linux.
	[__linux__] (linux_find_partition): Use a temporary buffer
	REAL_DEV for the working space. Copy it to DEV before returning.
	(open_device) [__linux__]: Call ioctl with BLKFLSBUF to make the
	buffer cache consistent.
	(get_os_disk) [__linux__]: Use the length 5 instead of 4 for
	strncmp. The previous value was merely wrong.
	(pupa_util_biosdisk_get_pupa_dev): Use stat instead of lstat.

	* fs/fat.c (pupa_fat_read_data): Shift 4 instead of 12 when the
	FAT size is 12. The previous value was merely wrong.

	* kern/main.c (pupa_main): Don't split the starting message from
	newlines.

	* kern/term.c (pupa_putchar): Put CR after LF instead of before
	LF, because BIOS goes crazy about character attributes in this
	case.
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New in 0.7:
* Problems in cross-compiling PUPA are fixed.
* Use -mrtd and -mregparm=3 to reduce the generated code sizes. This
means that any missing prototypes could be fatal. Also, you must take
care when writing assembly code. See the comments at the beginning of
startup.S, for more details.
* New utility, ``pupa-setup''. This sets up PUPA to make it bootable
from a real disk.
New in 0.6 - 2002-12-27, Yoshinori K. Okuji:
* The chainloader and the FAT filesystem are modularized.
* The structure of the source tree is a bit changed.
* Support for building loadable modules is added.
* Some generic parts of pupa-mkimage are segregated.
* Some documentation files are added, according to the GNU Coding
Standards.