use redundand environment storage;
auto-set console on USB port (using preboot command)

add support for USB-based console
(enable with "setenv stdout usbtty; setenv stdin usbtty")

* Handle Auti-MDIX / connection status for INCA-IP

* Fix USB problems when attempting to read 0 bytes

  Fix broken compile for XPEDITE1K target.

* Patch by Stephan Linz, 26 Feb 2004:
  Bug fix for NFS code on NIOS targets

* Patch by Stephen Williams, 26 Feb 2004:
  Break up SystemACE reads of large block counts

  add IDE support for MPC5200

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 26 Feb 2004:
  add autoload via NFS

* Patch by Stephen Williams
  Use of CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO in board.c consistent with uses
  elsewhere in the source.

  - Timeouts in FPGA code should be based on CFG_HZ
  - Minor cleanup in code for Altera FPGA ACEX1K

* Patch by Steven Scholz, 25 Feb 2004:
  Changed "Directory Hierarchy" section in README

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 25 Feb 2004:
  Reduce copy count in nfs_read_reply() of NFS code

  NS9750 DevBoard added

* Patch by Pierre AUBERT, 24 Feb 2004
  add USB support for MPC5200

* Patch by Steven Scholz, 24 Feb 2004:
  - fix MII commands to use values from last command

* Patch by Torsten Demke, 24 Feb 2004:
  Add support for the eXalion platform (SPSW-8240, F-30, F-300)

  Fixes for for OMAP1610 board:
  - shift some IRQ specific code to platform.S file
  - remove duplicatewatchdog reset code from start.S

* Make Auto-MDIX Support configurable on INCA-IP board

* Fix license for mkimage tool

  Update NetBootFileXferSize in NFS code

* Patch by Scott McNutt, 24 Feb 2004:
  fix packet length in NFS code

  Add support for NFS for file download

* Minor code cleanup

  Add support for S3C44B0 processor and DAVE B2 board

* Patch by Steven Scholz, 20 Feb 2004:
  - Add support for MII commands on AT91RM9200 boards
  - some cleanup in AT91RM9200 ethernet code

  Add support for the Xilinx ML300 platform

* Patch by Stephan Linz, 17 Feb 2004:
  Fix watchdog support for NIOS

* Patch by Josh Fryman, 16 Feb 2004:
  Fix byte-swapping for cfi_flash.c for different bus widths

* Patch by Jon Diekema, 14 Jeb 2004:
  Remove duplicate "FPGA Support" notes from the README file

  - update board/emk tree; use common flash driver
  - Corrected tested bits in machine check exception in cpu/mpc5xxx/traps.c
    [adapted for other PPC CPUs -- wd]
  - Added support for the M48T08 on the EVAL5200 board in rtc/mk48t59.c

* Patch by Jon Diekema, 13 Feb 2004:
  Call show_boot_progress() whenever POST "FAILED" is printed.

* Patch by Nishant Kamat, 13 Feb 2004:
  Add support for TI OMAP1610 H2 Board
  Fixes for cpu/arm926ejs/interrupt.c
       (based on Richard Woodruff's patch for arm925, 16 Oct 03)
  Fix for a timer bug in OMAP1610 Innovator
  Add support for CS0 (ROM)/CS3 (Flash) boot in OMAP1610 Innovator and H2

* Patches by Stephan Linz, 12 Feb 2004:
  - add support for NIOS timer with variable period preload counter value
  - prepare POST framework support for NIOS targets

* Patch by Denis Peter, 11 Feb 2004:
  add POST support for the MIP405 board

  Fix buffer overflow in common/usb.c

* Patch by Tolunay Orkun, 10 Feb 2004:
  Add support for Cogent CSB272 board

* Code cleanup

  Add support for NET+50 CPU and ModNET50 board

* Patch by Sam Song, 10 Feb 2004:
  Fix typos in cfi_flash.c

* Patch by Leon Kukovec, 10 Feb 2004
  Fixed long dir entry slot id calculation in get_vfatname

* Patch by Robin Gilks, 10 Feb 2004:
  add "itest" command (operators: -eq, -ne, -lt, -gt, -le, -ge, ==,
  !=, <>, <, >, <=, >=)

* Cleanup compiler warnings

* Fix problem with side effects in macros in include/usb.h

* Patch by David Benson, 13 Nov 2003:
  bug 841358 - fix TFTP download size limit

* Fixing bug 850768:
  improper flush_cache() in load_serial()

* Fixing bug 834943:
  MPC8540 - missing volatile declarations

* Patch by Stephen Williams, 09 Feb 2004:
  Add support for Xilinx SystemACE chip:
  - New files common/cmd_ace.c and include/systemace.h
  - Hook systemace support into cmd_fat and the partition manager

* Patch by Travis Sawyer, 09 Feb 2004:
  Add bi_opbfreq & bi_iic_fast to 440GX bd_info as needed for Linux

  o 440GX:
    - Fix PCI Indirect access for type 1 config cycles with ppc440.
    - Add phymode for 440 enet
    - fix pci pre init
  o XPedite1K:
    - Change board_pre_init to board_early_init_f
    - Add user flash to bus controller setup
    - Fix pci pre init
    - Fix is_pci_host to check GPIO for monarch bit
    - Force xpedite1k to pci conventional mode (via #define option)

* Patch by Brad Kemp, 4 Feb 2004:
  - handle the machine check that is generated during the PCI scans
    on 82xx processors.
  - define the registers used in the IMMR by the PCI subsystem.

* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 03 Feb 2004:
  cpu/mpc5xxx/start.S: copy MBAR into SPR311

* Patch by Jeff Angielski, 03 Feb 2004:
  Fix copy & paste error in cpu/mpc8260/pci.c

* Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 24 Jan 2004:
  Fix typo in cpu/mpc5xxx/pci_mpc5200.c

Release version 1.0.2

* Patch by Josef Baumgartner, 10 Feb 2004:
  Fixes for Coldfire port

* Patch by Brad Kemp, 11 Feb 2004:
  Fix CFI flash driver problems

  modules at CPU clock frequencies above 66 MHz.

* Optimize flash programming speed for LWMON (by another 100% :-)

  - Changed the incorrect FAT12BUFSIZE
  - data_begin in fsdata can be negative. Changed it to be short.
* Code cleanup

1: - board/altera/common/flash.c:flash_erase():
     o allow interrupts befor get_timer() call
     o check-up each erased sector and avoid unexpected timeouts
   - board/altera/dk1c20/dk1s10.c:board_early_init_f():
     o enclose sevenseg_set() in cpp condition
   - remove the ASMI configuration for DK1S10_standard_32 (never present)
   - fix some typed in mistakes in the NIOS documentation
2: - split DK1C20 configuration into several header files:
     o two new files for each NIOS CPU description
     o U-Boot related part is remaining in DK1C20.h
3: - split DK1S10 configuration into several header files:
     o two new files for each NIOS CPU description
     o U-Boot related part is remaining in DK1S10.h
4: - Add support for the Microtronix Linux Development Kit
     NIOS CPU configuration at the Altera Nios Development Kit,
     Stratix Edition (DK-1S10)
5: - Add documentation for the Altera Nios Development Kit,
     Stratix Edition (DK-1S10)
6: - Add support for the Nios Serial Peripharel Interface (SPI)
     (master only)
7: - Add support for the common U-Boot SPI framework at
     RTC driver DS1306

  Fix flash protection/locking handling for OMAP1610 innovator board.

* Patch by Rolf Peukert, 28 Jan 2004:
  fix flash write problems on CSB226 board (write with 32 bit bus width)

* Patches by Mark Jonas, 16 Jan 2004:
  - fix rounding error when calculating baudrates for MPC5200 PSCs
  - make sure CFG_RAMBOOT and CFG_LOWBOOT are not enabled at the same
    time which is not supported

  Allow bzip2 compression for small memory footprint boards

* Patch by Brad Kemp, 21 Jan 2004:
  Add support for CFI flash driver for both the Intel and the AMD
  command sets.

* Patch by Travis Sawyer, 20 Jan 2004:
  Fix pci bridge auto enumeration of sibling p2p bridges.

* Patch by Tolunay Orkun, 12 Jan 2004:
  Add some delays as needed for Intel LXT971A PHY support

* Patches by Stephan Linz, 09 Jan 2004:
  - avoid warning: unused variable `piop' in board/altera/common/sevenseg.c
  - make DK1C20 board configuration related to ASMI conform to
    documentation

ARM memory layout fixes: the abort-stack is now set up in the
correct RAM area, and the BSS is zeroed out as it should be.

Furthermore, the magic variables 'armboot_end' and 'armboot_end_data'
of the linker scripts are replaced by '__bss_start' and '_end',
resp., which is a further step to eliminate unnecessary differences
between the implementation of the CPU architectures.

  Fix Intel 28F128J3 ID in include/flash.h

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 09 Jan 2004:
  add support for TB0229 board (NEC VR4131 MIPS processor)

* Patch by Leon Kukovec, 12 Dec 2003:
  changed extern __inline__ into static __inline__ in
  include/linux/byteorder/swab.h

Add support for IBM PPC440GX. Multiple EMAC Ethernet devices,
select MDI port based on enabled EMAC device.
Add support for XES Inc <http://www.xes-inc.com> XPedite1000 440GX
base PrPMC board.

  made CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE usable on all architectures

* Disable date command on TQM866M - there is no RTC on MPC866

  clock frequency for INCA-IP; fix problem with board hanging when
  switching from 150MHz to 100MHz

* Add PCMCIA CS support for BMS2003 board

  see doc/README.MPC866 for details;
  implement workaround for "SIU4" and "SIU9" silicon bugs on MPC866;
  calculate CPU clock frequency from PLL register values.

* Add support for 128 MB RAM on TQM8xxL/M modules

  pointing to a location in flash

* Fix INCA-IP clock calculation: 400/3 = 133.3 MHz, not 130.

  before we can access it; add delay in case we are faster (with no
  CF card inserted)

* Cleanup of some init functions

* Make sure SCC Ethernet is always stopped by the time we boot Linux
  to avoid Linux crashes by early packets coming in.

* Accelerate flash accesses on LWMON board by using buffered writes

fix problem with PARTNUM detection