not support a value (e.g., it's to be used as "options FOO" instead of
"options FOO=xxx"). options that take a value were converted to
defparam recently.
- minor whitespace & formatting cleanups
more testing with different configurations, and work in a number of areas
(which I'm not able to do for a little while), but is at least functional
and stable on i386 with DPT adapters.