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diff --git a/README b/README
index d7eb8052644..02f4bde7a83 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ This is Mono.
 		make
 		make install
 
-	Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390, AMD64, ARM
-	and PowerPC systems.
+	Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390,
+	S/390x, AMD64, ARM and PowerPC systems.   
 
 	If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
 	Mono installation.  To upgrade your installation, unpack both
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ This is Mono.
 	also try passing EXTERNAL_MCS=false on the make command-line.
 
 	Testing and Installation
-	 ------------------------
+	------------------------
 
 	You can run (part of) the mono and mcs testsuites with the command:
 
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ This is Mono.
 	  	systems do not support this feature, or you might want
 	  	to override the auto-detection.
 
-	--with-static-mono=yes,no
+	--with-static_mono=yes,no
 
 		This controls whether `mono' should link against a
 	  	static library (libmono.a) or a shared library
@@ -264,6 +264,19 @@ This is Mono.
 		Whether you want to build libraries that are still not
 	  	completed (The 2.0 APIs).   It defaults to `yes'.
 
+	--with-moonlight=yes,no
+
+		Whether you want to generate the Silverlight/Moonlight
+		libraries and toolchain in addition to the default
+		(1.1 and 2.0 APIs).
+
+		This will produce the `smcs' compiler which will reference
+		the Silvelright modified assemblies (mscorlib.dll,
+		System.dll, System.Code.dll and System.Xml.Core.dll) and turn
+	  	on the LINQ extensions for the compiler.
+
+		This option defaults to `no' and it is considered pre-alpha.
+
 	--with-libgdiplus=installed,sibling,<path>
 
 		This is used to configure where should Mono look for
@@ -279,6 +292,16 @@ This is Mono.
 
 		Or you can specify a path to a libgdiplus.
 
+	--disable-shared-memory 
+
+		Use this option to disable the use of shared memory in
+		Mono (this is equivalent to setting the MONO_DISABLE_SHM
+		environment variable, although this removes the feature
+		completely).
+
+		Disabling the shared memory support will disable certain
+		features like cross-process named mutexes.
+
 	--enable-minimal=LIST
 
 		Use this feature to specify optional runtime
@@ -329,6 +352,39 @@ This is Mono.
 			allow Mono to run any 2.0 libraries or
 			code that contains generics.
 	  	
+	--enable-big-arrays
+
+		This enables the use arrays whose indexes are larger
+		than Int32.MaxValue.   
+
+		By default Mono has the same limitation as .NET on
+		Win32 and Win64 and limits array indexes to 32-bit
+		values (even on 64-bit systems).
+
+		In certain scenarios where large arrays are required,
+		you can pass this flag and Mono will be built to
+		support 64-bit arrays.
+
+		This is not the default as it breaks the C embedding
+		ABI that we have exposed through the Mono development
+		cycle.
+
+	--enable-parallel-mark
+
+		Use this option to enable the garbage collector to use
+		multiple CPUs to do its work.  This helps performance
+		on multi-CPU machines as the work is divided across CPUS.
+
+		This option is not currently the default as we have
+		not done much testing with Mono.
+
+	--enable-dtrace
+
+		On Solaris and MacOS X builds a version of the Mono
+		runtime that contains DTrace probes and can
+		participate in the system profiling using DTrace.
+
+
 	--disable-dev-random
 
 		Mono uses /dev/random to obtain good random data for
@@ -402,6 +458,11 @@ This is Mono.
 
 		Manual pages for the various Mono commands and programs.
 
+	samples/
+
+		Some simple sample programs on uses of the Mono
+		runtime as an embedded library.   
+
 	scripts/
 
 		Scripts used to invoke Mono and the corresponding program.
@@ -411,3 +472,9 @@ This is Mono.
 		A directory that contains the Makefiles that link the
 		mono/ and mcs/ build systems.
 
+	../olive/
+
+		If the directory ../olive is present (as an
+		independent checkout) from the Mono module, that
+		directory is automatically configured to share the
+		same prefix than this module gets.