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author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-09-20 17:26:02 +0000 |
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committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-09-20 17:26:02 +0000 |
commit | 54128e1dee565262ce9457891298ad048ce56c18 (patch) | |
tree | a87e7edbda9122f96e059cfe99d72909002dcbeb /release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes | |
parent | b107908137547e4b451922f878a95890c47bc993 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-54128e1dee565262ce9457891298ad048ce56c18.zip FreeBSD-src-54128e1dee565262ce9457891298ad048ce56c18.tar.gz |
- Remove redundant wording.
- Update MK_ARM_EABI entry to note it is the default.
- Reword the entry for r290910.
- Fix various wording nits.
- Remove redundant '[arch]' tags where they are already specified.
- Various rewordings.
Submitted by: theraven (first pass from his feedback)
Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 147 |
1 files changed, 70 insertions, 77 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index d8ccfa3..0727f21 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ includes files in the <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> - directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> + directories for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> <para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the @@ -172,12 +172,13 @@ if unset.</para> <para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal> - &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para> + &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed and is now the only + supported ABI for &os;/&arch.arm;.</para> <para revision="301247">The <application>ntp</application> suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p8.</para> - <para revision="301247">The + <para revision="301247"> <filename>/etc/ntp/leap-seconds</filename> has been updated to version 3676752000.</para> @@ -194,11 +195,12 @@ &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para> - <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI - devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by - their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally, - the <literal>-l</literal> flag now accepts an optional device - argument to list details about a single device.</para> + <para revision="260910">The &man.pciconf.8; utility can now + identify PCI devices that are attached to a driver to be + identified by their device name instead of just the selector. + Additionally, the <literal>-l</literal> flag now accepts an + optional device argument to list details about a single + device.</para> <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows @@ -304,8 +306,8 @@ <acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition type.</para> - <para revision="277166" arch="powerpc">The &man.ptrace.2; system - call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on + <para revision="277166">The &man.ptrace.2; system call has been + updated include support for Altivec registers on &os;/&arch.powerpc;.</para> <para revision="278320">A new device control utility, @@ -317,14 +319,15 @@ <para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been - updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared - library.</para> + updated to use &man.libxo.3; to optionally generate + machine-readable output.</para> <para revision="279139">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para> <para revision="279315" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The + <acronym>UEFI</acronym> Secure Boot signing utility, &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para> <para revision="279571" contrib="sponsor" @@ -441,7 +444,8 @@ <para revision="287473" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">A new utility, &man.sesutil.8;, has been added, which is used - to manage &man.ses.4; devices.</para> + to manage &man.ses.4; (<acronym>SCSI</acronym> Environmental + Services) devices.</para> <para revision="287522">The &man.pciconf.8; utility has been updated to use the PCI ID database from the <filename @@ -489,10 +493,6 @@ <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated to support multi-threaded compression.</para> - <para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - <application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been - updated to version 3179.</para> - <para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated to version 2.1.3.</para> @@ -869,11 +869,11 @@ &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> - <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for - &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for - &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the <literal>trapexit()</literal> - and <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of - checking within addressed kernel space.</para> + <para revision="271697">Support for &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing + has been fixed for &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the + <literal>trapexit()</literal> and + <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of checking + within addressed kernel space.</para> <para revision="271917">A kernel panic triggered when destroying a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has @@ -907,9 +907,8 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para revision="281261" arch="powerpc">Support for - &man.dtrace.1; has been added for the - Book-E ™.</para> + <para revision="281261">Support for &man.dtrace.1; has been + added for the PowerPC Book-E ™.</para> <para revision="287886" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.kqueue.2; system call has been @@ -923,7 +922,7 @@ <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal> kernel configuration option has been enabled by default, which enables application execution through emulators, such - as <application>Qemu</application>.</para> + as <application>QEMU</application>.</para> <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4; @@ -938,10 +937,9 @@ class="directory">src/</filename> tree, specified as an argument to the <literal>-s</literal> flag.</para> - <para revision="277990" arch="powerpc64">The - &os;/&arch.powerpc64; kernel now builds as - a position-independent executable, allowing the kernel to be - loaded into and run from any physical or virtual + <para revision="277990">The &os;/&arch.powerpc64; kernel now + builds as a position-independent executable, allowing the + kernel to be loaded into and run from any physical or virtual address.</para> <important> @@ -950,7 +948,7 @@ system.</para> </important> - <para revision="278338" arch="arm">A new module for creating + <para revision="278338">A new module for creating <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry Pi.</para> @@ -959,15 +957,13 @@ <filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para> - <para revision="279189" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" - arch="powerpc">Kernel support for Vector-Scalar eXtension - (<acronym>VSX</acronym>) found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware - has been added.</para> + <para revision="279189" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Kernel + support for Vector-Scalar eXtension (<acronym>VSX</acronym>) + found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware has been added.</para> - <para revision="279252" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" - arch="powerpc">The &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit - &powerpc; processors has been overhaulded to improve - concurrency.</para> + <para revision="279252" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The + &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit &powerpc; processors + has been overhaulded to improve concurrency.</para> <para revision="279824" arch="arm">A new module for creating the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has @@ -994,7 +990,7 @@ configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; statically into the kernel.</para> - <para revision="282731" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader, + <para revision="282731">The &arm; boot loader, <filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable. In addition, <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of @@ -1518,32 +1514,31 @@ <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for ARM devices by default.</para> - <para revision="266943" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 - Octa system has been added.</para> + <para revision="266943">Support for the Exynos 5420 Octa system + has been added.</para> - <para revision="267390" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> - option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by + <para revision="267390">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> option has + been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by &os;.</para> - <para revision="268838" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex - Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para> + <para revision="268838">Support for the Toradex Apalis i.MX6 + development board has been added.</para> - <para revision="273264" arch="armv6">An issue that could cause - instability when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on the - Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="273264">An issue that could cause instability + when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on the Raspberry Pi + <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been fixed.</para> <para revision="275963">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal> driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym> frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para> - <para revision="277042" arch="arm">Support to turn off the - BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; - <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has - been added.</para> + <para revision="277042">Support to turn off the BeagleBone Black + system with the &man.shutdown.8; <literal>-p</literal> flag or + by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has been added.</para> - <para revision="277644" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers - have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer + <para revision="277644">Audio transmission drivers have been + added for Digital Audio Multiplexer (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para> @@ -1552,14 +1547,13 @@ support for the ARM AArch64 architecture has been added.</para> - <para revision="282779" arch="arm">Kernel support for Thumb-2 - userland has been added.</para> + <para revision="282779">Kernel support for Thumb-2 userland has + been added.</para> - <para revision="282827">Support for the hardware power button - on the BeagleBone Black system has been added.</para> + <para revision="282827">Support for the hardware power button on + the BeagleBone Black system has been added.</para> - <para revision="284273" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&ff;">Initial + <para revision="284273" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Initial <acronym>ACPI</acronym> support has been added for &os;/&arch.arm64;.</para> @@ -1568,29 +1562,28 @@ &man.gpio.4;. See &man.ow.4;, &man.owc.4;, and &man.ow.temp.4; for more information.</para> - <para revision="287371" arch="arm64" contrib="sponsor" + <para revision="287371" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&abt;">Support for the HiSilicon HI6220 SoC has - been added.</para> + been added.</para> - <para revision="263698" arch="arm">The second CPU core on - Allwinner A20 SoC have been enabled.</para> + <para revision="263698">The second CPU core on Allwinner A20 SoC + have been enabled.</para> - <para revision="299688" arch="arm">Support for the Allwinner H3 - SoC has been added.</para> + <para revision="299688">Support for the Allwinner H3 SoC has + been added.</para> - <para revision="299786" arch="arm">Support for X-Powers AXP813 - and AXP818 power management integrated circuits have been - added.</para> + <para revision="299786">Support for X-Powers AXP813 and AXP818 + power management integrated circuits have been added.</para> - <para revision="299781" arch="arm">Support for the Allwinner - Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) has been added.</para> + <para revision="299781">Support for the Allwinner Reduced Serial + Bus (RSB) has been added.</para> - <para revision="296064" arch="arm">Support for Allwinner A20 - HDMI has been added.</para> + <para revision="296064">Support for Allwinner A20 HDMI has been + added.</para> - <para revision="300777" arch="arm">Support for GPIO, Sensors and - interrupts on AXP209 power management integrated circuits have - been added.</para> + <para revision="300777">Support for GPIO, Sensors and interrupts + on AXP209 power management integrated circuits have been + added.</para> </sect2> </sect1> |