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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2006-06-18 21:32:26 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2006-06-18 21:32:26 +0000
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Minor tightening up of release notes:
Delete two release notes related to the kern.elf*.can_exec_dyn that seemed to cancel each other out. Consolidate two notes related to BPF JIT. Delete note about fixing CHECKSUM.MD5 bug; no released versions of FreeBSD shipped with it.
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@@ -285,19 +285,6 @@
has been added. This allows to export kernel malloc
statistics via a binary structure stream.</para>
- <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn</varname>
- has been added. This allows to execute a <literal>ET_DYN</literal> binary
- (shared object) when the variable is set to <literal>1</literal>.
- This is set to <literal>0</literal> by default and useful for some
- Linux scripts which expect to be able to execute
- <filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn</varname>
- has been removed. Instead the <varname>brandinfo</varname>
- structure has been extended to be able to provide the
- <literal>BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN</literal> flag for all brands that usually
- allow executing ELF dynamic binaries.</para>
-
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.forcesigexit</varname>
has been added. This forces a process
to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or
@@ -643,9 +630,10 @@
permanent ARP entries. &merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386,pc98">An experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler
- has been implemented. To enable this,
- <literal>options BPF_JITTER</literal> kernel option is needed,
- and a sysctl variable <varname>net.bpf.jitter.enable</varname>
+ has been implemented for both &man.bpf.4; and &man.ng.bpf.4;.
+ To enable this, the
+ <literal>options BPF_JITTER</literal> kernel option is needed.
+ The <varname>net.bpf_jitter.enable</varname>
can be used to disable this feature.</para>
<para>The bridge(4) driver has been removed from the tree. Its
@@ -703,11 +691,6 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.natm.4;, Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.bpf.4; Netgraph node now supports BPF Just-In-Time compiler.
- Also, the sysctl has been changed from <varname>net.bpf.jitter.enable</varname>
- to <varname>net.bpf_jitter.enable</varname> and this controls
- both &man.bpf.4; and &man.ng.bpf.4; now.</para>
-
<para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;.
&merged;</para>
@@ -1571,9 +1554,6 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>A bug that <filename>CHECKSUM.MD5</filename> includes
- an incorrect checksum of the file itself has been fixed.</para>
-
<para>A new &man.make.1; target <command>make showconfig</command>
has been added in <filename>src/Makefile</filename>
to show build configuration of the &os; source tree.</para>
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