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

  - show PCI clock frequency on MPC8260 systems
  - add FCC_PSMR_RMII flag for HiP7 processors
  - in do_jffs2_fsload(), take load address from load_addr if not set
    explicit, update load_addr otherwise
  - replaced printf by putc/puts when no formatting is needed
    (smaller code size, faster execution)

  Added ARM Integrator AP, CP and Versatile PB926EJ-S Reference
  Platform support.

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 08 Mar 2004:
  Don't overwrite server IP address or boot file name
  when the boot server does not return values

* Patch by listmember@orkun.us, 5 Mar 2004:
  Removed compile time restriction on CFG_I2C_SPEED for DS1338 RTC

  Fix problems with GCC 3.3.x which changed handling of global
  variables explicitly initialized to zero (now in .bss instead of
  .data as before).

* Patch by Leon Kukovec, 02 Mar 2004:
  add strswab() to fix IDE LBA capacity, firmware and model numbers
  on little endian machines

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 02 Mar 2004:
  - Remove get_ticks() from NFS code
  - Add verification of RPC transaction ID

* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 02 Mar 2004:
  cleanup for IDE and USB drivers for MPC5200

  Ocotea:
  - Add IBM PPC440GX Ref Platform support (Ocotea)
    Original code by Paul Reynolds <PaulReynolds@lhsolutions.com>
    Adapted to U-Boot and 440GX port
  440gx_enet.c:
  - Add gracious handling of all Ethernet Pin Selections for 440GX
  - Add RGMII selection for Cicada CIS8201 Gigabit PHY
  ppc440.h:
  - Add needed bit definitions
  - Fix formatting

* Patch by Carl Riechers, 1 Mar 2004:
  Add PPC440GX prbdv0 divider to fix memory clock calculation.

* Patch by Stephan Linz, 27 Feb 2004
  - avoid problems for targets without NFS download support

  - 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"

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

  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

  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

  Fix buffer overflow in common/usb.c

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

* Code cleanup

* 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

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.

  Add support for the Marvell DB64360 / DB64460 development boards

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

  fixes for Davicom DM9102A Ethernet Chip (#define CONFIG_TULIP_FIX_DAVICOM):
  - TX and RX deskriptors must be quad-word aligned
  - does not work with only one TX deskriptor
  - standard reset method does not work

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 08 Dec 2003:
  add RTL8139 ethernet driver

* Patches by Ed Okerson, 07 Dec 2003:
  - fix ethernet for the AU1x00 processors in little-endian mode.
  - extend memsetup.S for the AU1x00 processors in BE and LE modes

* 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

  recent tools

* Add checksum verification to 'imls' command

* Add bd_info fields needed for 4xx Linux I2C driver

* Patch by Martin Krause, 4 Nov. 2003:
  Fix error in cmd_vfd.c (TRAB board: "vfd /1" shows now only one Bitmap)

* Print used network interface when CONFIG_NET_MULTI is set

  - 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)

  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.

* Make fatload set filesize environment variable
  fix potential buffer overlow problem

* enable basic / medium / high-end configurations for PPChameleonEVB
  board; fix NAND code

* enable TFTP client code to specify to the server the desired
  timeout value (see RFC-2349)

* 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

  allow selection of clock frequency as "make" target

* Implement memory autosizing code for IceCube boards

* Configure network port on INCA-IP for autonegotiation

* Fix overflow problem in network timeout code

* Patch by Richard Woodruff, 8 Aug 2003:
  Allow crc32 to be used at address 0x000 (crc32_no_comp, too).

* Add support for MGT5100 and MPC5200 processors

  - remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc.
  - split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c)

* Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003:
  - major rework of command structure
    (work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)

- Fixed smc91c111 driver to sync with the u-boot environment (driver/smc91c111.c).
- Added eth_init error return check in NetLoop (net/net.c).

* Patches by Kyle Harris, 13 Mar 2003:
  - Add FAT partition support
  - Add command support for FAT
  - Add command support for MMC
  ----
  - Add Intel PXA support for video
  - Add Intel PXA support for MMC
  ----
  - Enable MMC and FAT for lubbock board
  - Other misc changes for lubbock board

  make ppc405 ethernet driver compatible with CONFIG_NET_MULTI option

* Add support for TQM862L at 100/50 MHz

* Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 02 Jun 2003:
  major reconstruction of networking code;
  add "ping" support (outgoing only!)

  - Added support for custom keyboards, initialized by defining a
    board-specific drv_keyboard_init as well as defining CONFIG_KEYBOARD .
  - Added support for the RBC823 board.
  - cpu/mpc8xx/lcd.c now automatically calculates the
    Horizontal Pixel Count field.

* Fix alignment problem in BOOTP (dhcp_leasetime option)
  [pointed out by Nicolas Lacressonnire, 2 Jun 2003]

* Patch by Mark Rakes, 14 May 2003:
  add support for Intel e1000 gig cards.

* Patch by Nye Liu, 3 Jun 2003:
  fix critical typo in MAMR definition (include/mpc8xx.h)

* Fix requirement to align U-Boot image on 16 kB boundaries on PPC.

* Patch by Klaus Heydeck, 2 Jun 2003
  Minor changes for KUP4K configuration

  Fixed rarp boot method for IA32 and other little-endian CPUs.

* Patch by Marc Singer, 28 May 2003:
  Added port I/O commands.

* Patch by Matthew McClintock, 28 May 2003
  - cpu/mpc824x/start.S: fix relocation code when booting from RAM
  - minor patches for utx8245

* Patch by Daniel Engström, 28 May 2003:
  x86 update

* Patch by Dave Ellis, 9 May 2003 + 27 May 2003:
  add nand flash support to SXNI855T configuration
  fix/extend nand flash support:
  - fix 'nand erase' command so does not erase bad blocks
  - fix 'nand write' command so does not write to bad blocks
  - fix nand_probe() so handles no flash detected properly
  - add doc/README.nand
  - add .jffs2 and .oob options to nand read/write
  - add 'nand bad' command to list bad blocks
  - add 'clean' option to 'nand erase' to write JFFS2 clean markers
  - make NAND read/write faster

* Patch by Rune Torgersen, 23 May 2003:
  Update for MPC8266ADS board

Changed DHCP client to use ip address from server option field #54 from the OFFER-paket in the server option field #54 in the REQUEST-paket. This fixes a problem using a Windows 2000 DHCP server, where the DHCP-server is not the TFTP-server.

  Add IDMA example code (tested on 8260 only)

* Add support for Purple Board (MIPS64 5Kc)

* Add support for MIPS64 5Kc CPUs

* Fix missing setting of "loadaddr" and "bootfile" on ARM and MIPS

* Patch by Denis Peter, 04 Apr 2003:
  - update MIP405-4 board

* Patches by Denis Peter, 03 April 2003:
  - fix PCI IRQs on MPL boards
  - fix two more un-relocated pointer problems

* Fix behaviour of "run" command:
  - print error message iv variable does not exist
  - terminate processing of arguments in case of error

* Patches by Peter Figuli, 10 Mar 2003
  - Add support for BTUART on PXA platform
  - Add support for WEP EP250 (PXA) board

* Fix flash problems on INCA-IP; add tool to allow bruning images  to
  flash using a BDI2000

* Implement fix for I2C Edge Conditions problem for all boards that
  use the bit-banging driver (common/soft_i2c.c)

* Add patches by Robert Schwebel, 31 Mar 2003:
  - csb226 board: bring in sync with innokom/memsetup.S
  - csb226 board: fix MDREFR handling
  - misc doc fixes / extensions
  - innokom board: cleanup, MDREFR fix in memsetup.S, config update
  - add BOOT_PROGRESS to armlinux.c

  - fix bug in BOOTP code (must use NetCopyIP)
  - update of CSB226 port
  - clear BSS segment on XScale
  - added support for i2c_init_board() function
  - update to the Innokom plattform

* Extend support for redundand environments for configurations where
  environment size < sector size

* Patch by Erwin Rol, 27 Feb 2003:
  Add support for RTEMS

* Add image information to README

* Fix dual PCMCIA slot support (when running with just one
  slot populated)

* Add VFD type detection to trab board

* extend drivers/cs8900.c driver to synchronize  ethaddr  environment
  variable with value in the EEPROM

* Start adding MIPS support files

* Add support for LXT971 PHY on PM826

* Patch by Tord Andersson, 16 Jan 2003:
  Fix flash sector count for TQM8xxL

* Fix I2C EEPROM problem on ICU862 board (would only write the first
  16 bytes out of each 32 byte block)

  Add code for AmigaOne board
  (preliminary merge to U-Boot, still WIP)

* Patch by Jon Diekema, 12 Nov 2002:
  - Adding URL for IEEE OUI lookup
  - Making the autoboot #defines dependent on CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
    being defined.
  - In the CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS #define, the root-on-initrd and
    root-on-nfs macros are designed to switch how the default boot
    method gets defined.