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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-03 19:29:12 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-03 19:29:12 +0000
commitdb8a973d3ddfc686520b7766d7464f5140726cd9 (patch)
treeee4cd78575f43834e99fe8597a201ff207c0716c
parentbbd89fb5c28dbec0df07da8236035885610fb5bc (diff)
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New release notes: CanBe power management, volume labels, MAKEDEV gone,
sunlabel. Modified release notes: Use elfdump(1) entity.
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml21
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml21
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index efef4c5..c3fcee9 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
+ <para arch="pc98">Support for the CanBE power management
+ controller has been added.</para>
+
<para>&man.devfs.5; is now mandatory; the
<literal>NODEVFS</literal> option has been removed from the set of
possible kernel configuration options.</para>
@@ -158,6 +161,15 @@
<para>&man.geom.4; is now mandatory; the
<literal>NO_GEOM</literal> has been removed from the set of
kernel configuration options.</para>
+
+ <para>Support has been added for volume labels on UFS and UFS2
+ filesystems. These labels are strings that can be used to
+ identify a volume, regardless of what device it appears on.
+ Labels can be set with the <option>-L</option> options to
+ &man.newfs.8; or &man.tunefs.8;. With the
+ <literal>GEOM_VOL</literal> module, volumes can be accessed
+ using their labels under <filename>/dev/vol</filename>.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -213,7 +225,7 @@
print file system parameters in the form of a &man.newfs.8;
command.</para>
- <para>elfdump, a utility to display information about &man.elf.5;
+ <para>&man.elfdump.1;, a utility to display information about &man.elf.5;
format executable files, has been added.</para>
<para>&man.fetch.1; uses the <filename>.netrc</filename> support
@@ -261,6 +273,9 @@
make it available at times during system startup when only the
root filesystem is mounted.</para>
+ <para>The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory
+ presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed.</para>
+
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now supports a <literal>W</literal> flag
to force previously-started compression jobs for an entry (or
group of entries specified with the <literal>G</literal> flag)
@@ -274,6 +289,10 @@
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-z</option> flag to set
the Type of Service bits in outgoing packets.</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The sunlabel utility, a program analogous to
+ &man.disklabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
+ added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.swapoff.8; command has been added to disable paging
and swapping on a device. A related &man.swapctl.8; command has
been added to provide an interface to &man.swapon.8; and
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index efef4c5..c3fcee9 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
+ <para arch="pc98">Support for the CanBE power management
+ controller has been added.</para>
+
<para>&man.devfs.5; is now mandatory; the
<literal>NODEVFS</literal> option has been removed from the set of
possible kernel configuration options.</para>
@@ -158,6 +161,15 @@
<para>&man.geom.4; is now mandatory; the
<literal>NO_GEOM</literal> has been removed from the set of
kernel configuration options.</para>
+
+ <para>Support has been added for volume labels on UFS and UFS2
+ filesystems. These labels are strings that can be used to
+ identify a volume, regardless of what device it appears on.
+ Labels can be set with the <option>-L</option> options to
+ &man.newfs.8; or &man.tunefs.8;. With the
+ <literal>GEOM_VOL</literal> module, volumes can be accessed
+ using their labels under <filename>/dev/vol</filename>.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -213,7 +225,7 @@
print file system parameters in the form of a &man.newfs.8;
command.</para>
- <para>elfdump, a utility to display information about &man.elf.5;
+ <para>&man.elfdump.1;, a utility to display information about &man.elf.5;
format executable files, has been added.</para>
<para>&man.fetch.1; uses the <filename>.netrc</filename> support
@@ -261,6 +273,9 @@
make it available at times during system startup when only the
root filesystem is mounted.</para>
+ <para>The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory
+ presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed.</para>
+
<para>&man.newsyslog.8; now supports a <literal>W</literal> flag
to force previously-started compression jobs for an entry (or
group of entries specified with the <literal>G</literal> flag)
@@ -274,6 +289,10 @@
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-z</option> flag to set
the Type of Service bits in outgoing packets.</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The sunlabel utility, a program analogous to
+ &man.disklabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
+ added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.swapoff.8; command has been added to disable paging
and swapping on a device. A related &man.swapctl.8; command has
been added to provide an interface to &man.swapon.8; and
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