[Syllable-announce] Syllable 0.5.1

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@li...>]

Syllable 0.5.1 is now available! Syllable 0.5.1 fixes some of the bugs with 
USB some users encountered in Syllable 0.5.0, and also adds yet more 
functionality with an experimental USB Mass Storage driver and Ogg Vorbis 
audio plugin.  The full changelog for this release can be found below.

For those of you who are upgrading there are two upgrade tarballs. Due to 
problems with 0.5.0, many of you have not installed 0.5.0 and those of you 
who are running Syllable 0.4.5 can upgrade directly to Syllable 0.5.1 in one 
go. Those of you who have 0.5.0 already installed can upgrade as usual 
to 0.5.1 with a seperate upgrade. Please ensure you have the correct upgrade! 
Those of you who are upgrading from 0.4.5 should also read the upgrade 
instructions, below.
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Changes for Syllable 0.5.1

Drivers
	o USB
		o Fixes to the USB bus manager & USB UHCI driver
		o Experimental USB Mass Storage driver
	o GET_ODELAY & GET_OSPACE ioctls() added to the emu10k1
               (SBLive!/Audigy) driver
	o "Phantom" ATAPI drives are no longer reported by the ATA driver

Media
	o Better error handling in libmedia
	o Ogg Vorbis (Audio only) plugin

Applications
	o Network Preferences fixes

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		UPGRADING FROM SYLLABLE 0.4.5

Syllable 0.5.1 includes some very important changes to the way that the 
Syllable kernel handles device drivers.  This means that once you have 
upgraded from Syllable 0.4.5 you must edit your Grub configuration to 
correctly boot Syllable 0.5.1

A typical Grub menu.lst file from Syllable 0.4.5 looks something like this:

     title  Syllable
     root   (hd0,1)
     kernel /atheos/sys/kernel.so root=/dev/disk/ide/hda/1
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/fs/afs
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/dev/disk/ata

Your drive paths may differ, of course.  To successfully upgrade to Syllable 
0.5.1, all you must do is add two new "module" lines.  Immediatly after the
line:

kernel /atheos/sys/kernel.so root=/dev/disk/ide/hda/1

Add the following lines:

     module /atheos/sys/config/kernel.cfg
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/bus/pci

A typical Grub menu.lst file for Syllable 0.5.1 therefore looks like this:

     title  Syllable
     root   (hd0,1)
     kernel /atheos/sys/kernel.so root=/dev/disk/ide/hda/1
     module /atheos/sys/config/kernel.cfg
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/bus/pci
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/fs/afs
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/dev/disk/ata

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Vanders
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