Hi all,

I've put updated kernel binaries in the normal snapshot directory.
When the source tree is finished rebuilding, I'll put  out a new
diskimage with the new kernels and the latest sysinst, and new tarballs.
These will go in the ALPHA/ directory when they're all done.

The latest kernels included fixes for several  annoying bugs.

   * Framebuffer consoles now correctly compute the tty size.
     The tty "rows" and "cols" is computed from the fraembuffer pixel
     dimensions, and set automatically.    All you have to do is
     set TERM or term appropriately (e.g., to "sun", or "pmax",
     when the next update gets committed.)

     This helps screen-aware applications like vi, emacs, and sysisnt.


   * The rz.c SCSI driver  now has support for reading geometry
     information from SCSI-2 disks.  If available. that info is used
     for default labels.  That makes labelling disks even eaiser.

   * The rz driver has better support for CD-roms and other removeable
     drives. The rz driver now sets up a `c' partition for CD-roms, so that
     'disklabel rz?' no works properly.

     I've also fixed a kernel divide-by-zero error that could cause a
     kernel crash  (ouch!) if you tried to mount a removable drive
     when there is no media present.

These should show up in the next 1.3_ALPHA snapshot (hopefully, late
this weekend).

It's important that these changes get tried out on as many different
disks as possible -- especially removable media like Zip, and Jaz, and
other magneto-optical drives.  If you can possibly run this kernel --
even if it's just to verify that it boots on your system before going
back to you rcurrent kernel -- please do.

I've also included some nominal support for the PMAG-C card.  There is
no support for a PMAG-C as either a raster console, or as an X11
display.  But you no longer need to remove the card to get NetBSD 1.3
to boot.  Framebuffer console support should come soon after 1.3 is out.

(Thanks to Philip Tait at Allied Signal  for the PMAG-C hardware!)