The first enhanced version of Linux CAN-bus driver for OCERA project

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+Because we are not able to contact original author Arnaud Westenberg,
+and we have put piece of work to bugfixes and enhancements of the
+driver, we decided to offer our latest version to more tests.
+Please, if you know Arnaud's new address, contact us.
+Most of new bugs belongs to 
+
+    Pavel Pisa pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz 
+and Tomasz Motylewski, T.Motylewski@bfad.de
+
+Main enhancements:
+  interrupts service cleanup and partial redesign
+  deep module build redesign
+  support for select
+  preliminary support for 2.5.48 (UP only now)
+  CAN Ethernet proxy
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 README for the linux CAN-bus driver.
 Written by Arnaud Westenberg email:arnaud@wanadoo.nl
 This software is released under the GPL-License.
 Version 0.7  6 Aug 2001
 
+Modified version can-0.7.1-pi2.2
+
+This version adds new Makefile system.
+DEVFS support
+Select/poll support for read/write events
+Preliminary cleanups for 2.5.xx kernels,
+it cannot work with SMP 2.5.xx until we get rid off
+CLI ans STI global directives
+
+Changes made by Pavel Pisa pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz as preliminary
+study for OCERA Real Time CAN/CANOpen project ORTCAN
+
 COMPILATION
 Just type 'make' at the command line and it should compile without errors.
 
@@ -27,6 +57,8 @@ The hw argument can be one of:
 - pc-i03, for the PC-I03 ISA card by IXXAT
 - pcm3680, for the PCM-3680 PC/104 card by Advantech
 - m437, for the M436 PC/104 card by SECO
+- bfadcan for sja1000 CAN embedded card made by BFAD GmbH
+- pikronisa for ISA memory mapped sja1000 CAN card made by PiKRON Ltd.
 - template, for yet unsupported hardware (you need to edit src/template.c)
 
 options can be one of:
@@ -36,6 +68,7 @@ options can be one of:
 - extended=[1|0], configures the driver to use extended message format.
 - pelican=[1|0], configures the driver to set the CAN chips into pelican mode.
 - baudrate=<nr>, sets the baudrate of the device(s)
+- clock_freq=<nr>, the frequency of the CAN quartz
 - stdmask=<nr>, sets the standard mask of the device
 - extmask=<nr>, sets the extended mask of the device
 - mo15mask=<nr>, sets the mask for message object 15 (i82527 only)