without this, networking doesn't work well when using the 1.1 add-on with
the cupcake sdk
Original author: digit
Merged from: //branches/cupcake/...
Automated import of CL 146315
Note that this also fix a bug where the SD Card image was not properly locked in the previous implementation.
Allow the http-proxy support code to actually manage to receive chunked encoding data, instead of complaining needlessly.
Introduce a new CharBuffer object that is used indirectly by "-radio <hostdevice>" and "-gps <hostdevice>" options
Add new documentation for QEMUD and CharDriverState objects
Update the Audio documentation with ASCII graphics (because I'm an artist too)
Original author: digit
Merged from: //branches/cupcake/...
Automated import of CL 144596