add networking support for VLANs (802.1q), and CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol)

  - add auto-complete support to the U-Boot CLI
  - add support for NETTA and NETPHONE boards; fix NETVIA board

* Patch by Yuli Barcohen, 28 Mar 2004:
  - Add support for MPC8272 family including MPC8247/8248/8271/8272
  - Add support for MPC8272ADS evaluation board (another flavour of MPC8260ADS)
  - Change configuration method for MPC8260ADS family

  - Unify video mode handling for Chips & Technologies 69000 Video
    chip and Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip
  - Add selection of the video output (CRT or LCD) via 'videoout'
    environment variable for the Silicon Motion
  - README update

* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 18 Mar 2004:
  include/common.h typo fix

* Patches by Tolunay Orkun, 17 Mar 2004:
  - Add support for bd->bi_iic_fast[] initialization via environment
    variable "i2cfast" (CONFIG_I2CFAST)
  - Add "i2cfast" u-boot environment variable support for csb272

  avoid dereferencing NULL pointer in lib_arm/armlinux.c

* Patch by Stephen Williams, 15 Mar 2004:
  Fix CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO documentation

* Patch by Tolunay Orkun, 15 Mar 2004:
  Initialize bi_opbfreq to real OPB frequency via get_OPB_freq()

* Patch by Travis Sawyer, 15 Mar 2004:
  Update CREDITS & MAINTAINERS files for PPC440GX & Ocotea port

  Fix early board initialization for Cogent CSB272 board

* Patch by Ed Okerson, 3 Mar 2004:
  fix CFI flash writes for little endian systems

* Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 01 Mar 2004:
  generalize USB and IDE support for MPC5200 with according
  changes to IceCube.h and TOP5200.h
  add Am29LV256 256 MBit FLASH support for TOP5200 boards
  add info about USB and IDE to README

  - Added LBA48 support (CONFIG_LBA48 & CFG_64BIT_LBA)
  - Added support for 64bit printing in vsprintf (CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF)
  - Added support for 64bit strtoul (CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL)

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 27 Feb 2004:
  Fix rarpboot: add autoload by NFS

* Patch by Dan Eisenhut, 26 Feb 2004:
  fix flash_write return value in saveenv

* Patch by Stephan Linz, 11 Dec 2003
  expand config.mk to avoid trigraph warnings on NIOS

* Rename "BMS2003" board into "HMI10"

  - 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

  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

  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

  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

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.

  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

* Patch by Scott McNutt, 02 Jan 2004:
  Add support for the Nios Active Serial Memory Interface (ASMI)
  on Cyclone devices

* Patch by Andrea Marson, 16 Dec 2003:
  Add support for the PPChameleon ME and HI modules

* Patch by Yuli Barcohen, 22 Dec 2003:
  Add support for Motorola DUET ADS board (MPC87x/88x)

  Add support for the Marvell DB64360 / DB64460 development boards

* Patch by Detlev Zundel, 10 Dec 2003:
  fix dependency problem in examples/Makefile

* Minor code cleanup (coding style)

* Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 30 Dec 2003:
  - cpu/mpc5xxx/fec.c: added CONFIG_PHY_ADDR, added CONFIG_PHY_TYPE,
  - added CONFIG_PHY_ADDR to include/configs/IceCube.h,
  - turned debug print of PHY registers into a function (called in two places)
  - added support for EMK MPC5200 based modules

* Fix MPC8xx PLPRCR_MFD_SHIFT typo

* Add support for TQM866M modules

* Fixes for TQM855M with 4 MB flash (Am29DL163 = _no_ mirror bit flash)

* Fix a few compiler warnings

  environment variable which can set to "100", "133", or "150". The
  CPU clock will be configured accordingly upon next reboot. Other
  values are ignored. In case of an invalid or undefined "cpuclk"
  value, the compile-time default CPU clock speed will be used.

* Enable Quad-UART on BMS2003 board (initialize the PCMCIA memory
  window that is used to access the UART registers by the Linux driver)

* Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 20 Dec 2003:
  Fix clock calculation for the MPC5200 for higher clock frequencies
  (above 2**32 / 10 = 429.5 MHz).

Add support for SNMC's QS850/QS823/QS860T boards

  add Realtek 8019 ethernet driver

* Patch by Yuli Barcohen, 13 Nov 2003:
  MPC826xADS/PQ2FADS  cleanup

* Patch by Anders Larsen, 12 Nov 2003:
  Update README to mark the PORTIO commands non-standard

  update for for Atmel AT91RM9200DK development kit:
  - support for environment variables in DataFlash
  - Atmel DataFlash AT45DB1282 support

* Patch by Jeff Carr, 11 Nov 2003:
  add support for new version of 8270 processors

* Patches by George G. Davis, 05 Nov 2003:
  - only pass the ARM linux initrd tag to the kernel when an initrd
    is actually present
  - update omap1510inn configuration file

  Move most of the timer interrupt related PPC code to ppc_lib/interrupts.c

* Patch by Anders Larsen, 17 Sep 2003:
  Bring ARM memory layout in sync with the documentation:
  stack and malloc-heap are now located _below_ the U-Boot code

(featuring a NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480 TFT display).
Fix NEC display names (it's 6440 [for 640x480], not 6640).

  Fix AT91RM9200 ethernet driver

* Patch by Nye Liu, 17 Oct 2003:
  Fix typo in include/mpc8xx.h

* Patch by Richard Woodruff, 16 Oct 03:
  Fixes for cpu/arm925/interrupt.c
  - Initialize timestamp & lastdec vars.
  - fix timestamp overflows.
  - fix lastdec overflow.
  - smarter normalization to allow udelay() below 1ms to work.

* Patch by Scott McNutt, 16 Oct
  add networking support for the Altera Nios Development Kit,
  Cyclone Edition (DK-1C20)

* Patch by Jon Diekema, 14 Oct 2003:
  add hint about doc/README.silent to README file

header on image type as encoded in the header

  - Added Motorola CPU 8540/8560 support (cpu/85xx)
  - Added Motorola MPC8540ADS board support (board/mpc8540ads)
  - Added Motorola MPC8560ADS board support (board/mpc8560ads)

* Minor code cleanup

  - Add support for Altera FPGA ACEX1K

* Patches by Thomas Lange, 09 Oct 2003:
  - Endian swap ATA identity for all big endian CPUs, not just PPC
  - MIPS only: New option CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES for passing memsize
    args to linux
  - add support for dbau1x00 board (MIPS32)

  add support for Zephyr Engineering ZPC.1900 board

* Patch by Anders Larsen, 23 Sep 2003:
  add CMD_PORTIO to CFG_CMD_NONSTD (commands in question are only
  implemented for the x86 architecture)

  fix pll_pci_to_mem_multiplier table for MPC8245

* Patch by Anders Larsen, 22 Sep 2003:
  enable timed autoboot on PXA

* Patch by David Mller, 22 Sep 2003:

  - add $(CFLAGS) to "-print-libgcc-filename" so compiler driver
    returns correct libgcc file path
  - "latency" reduction of busy-loop waiting to improve "U-Boot" boot
    time on s3c24x0 systems

* Patch by Jon Diekema, 19 Sep 2003:
  - Add CFG_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN option to echo the inverted Ethernet
    link state to the fault LED.
  - In NetLoop, make the Fault LED reflect the link status.  The link
    status gets updated on entry, and on timeouts.

  - update README (SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS values for cmd_nand.c and
    env_common.c)
  - sbc8260 tweaks
  - adjust "help" output

  - fix spelling errors
  - set GD_FLG_DEVINIT flag only after device function pointers
    are valid
  - Allow CFG_ALT_MEMTEST on systems where address zero isn't
    writeable
  - enable 3.rd UART (ST-UART) on PXA(XScale) CPUs
  - trigger watchdog while waiting in serial driver

  - add description for missing CFG_CMD_* entries in the README file
  - sacsng tweaks:
   include/configs/sacsng.h:
       + Support extra bootp options like: 2nd DNS and send hostname
       + Enabling ping and irq command
       + Adding defines for a bunch of misc configrabled options
         (patches for these options will be coming)
       + Adding watchdog support, but it isn't enabled yet.

   board/sacsng/sacsng.c:

       + Suppressing unneeded output when the quiet environment
	 is non-zero.
       + show_boot_progress() now accepts any negative number as a
	 failure code.
       + show_boot_progress() flashes the error code 5 times, and
         then resets the board to retry the boot from the top

* Patch by Gleb Natapov, 14 Sep 2003:
  enable watchdog support for all MPC824x boards that have a watchdog

  various changes to VCMA9 board specific files

* Add I2C support for MGT5100 / MPC5200

* Add PCI support for SL8245 board

* Support IceCube board configurations with 1 x AMD AM29LV065 (8 MB)
  or 1 x AM29LV652 (two LV065 in one chip = 16 MB);
  Run IPB at 133 Mhz; adjust the MII clock frequency accordingly

* Set BRG_CLK on PM825/826 to 64MHz (VCO_OUT / 4, instead of 16  MHz)
  to allow for more accurate baudrate settings
  (error now 0.7% at 115 kbps, instead of 3.5% before)

* Patch by Andreas Mohr, 4 Sep 2003:
  Fix a lot of spelling errors

* Add support for P3G4 board

* Fix problem with MGT5100 FEC driver: add "early" MAC address
  initialization

  fix TI Innovator/OMAP1510 pin configs

* Patches by Kshitij, 18 Aug 2003
  - add support for arm926ejs cpu core
  - add support for TI OMAP 1610 Innovator Board

add support for bzip2 uncompression