USB initial support

Dr Michal Schulz has made an initial commit of the AROS USB stack, enabling the use of USB mice and creating the foundations to add support, subsequently, also for other devices. Please notice this is pre-alpha stage software, this means only USB 1.1 UHCI controllers are supported for now, and maybe it won't work correctly on your motherboard. In order to improve functionality and compatibility, huge beta testing is required. So we'd encourage everyone brave enough to help us, to download next days' nightly builds and report any encountered problem. In order to activate the whole stack on UHCI machines, the command is:

C:Loadresource DRIVERS:uhci.hidd

Other news

Nic Andrews has slightly improved AROSTCP, giving us a better network stack. Working VIA Rhine driver and test RTL8139 one have been added as well.

Pavel Fedin is still working on improved VESA modes: "Cleaned up VESA mode switch code. Static palette removed, it's not necessary. Mousepointer colors on 256- and 16-color screens are fixed". He also merged back from MorphOS Trackdisk device. A brand new Trackdisk pref program allow 'no-click' mode of the floppy disk drive without adding arguments to the kernel command line in GRUB.

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