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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-08-09 21:14:55 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-08-09 21:14:55 +0000
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New release notes: ata(4)/burncd(8) support DVD+RW drives, atapicam.
MFCs noted: ucom(4)/uplcom(4)/uvscom(4), uvisor, IPFW2 (with some wording tweaks), texinfo 4.2.
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml19
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml19
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 385a52c..90a3401 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
modems, serial devices, and other programs that need to look
like a tty. The related &man.uplcom.4; and &man.uvscom.4; drivers provide specific
support for the Prolific PL-2303 serial adapter and the SUNTAC
- Slipper U VS-10U, respectively.</para>
+ Slipper U VS-10U, respectively. &merged;</para>
<para>To increase security, the <literal>UCONSOLE</literal> kernel
configuration option has been removed.</para>
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
activated by default.</para>
<para>The uvisor driver for connecting Handspring Visors via USB
- has been added.</para>
+ has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>A VESA S3 linear framebuffer driver has been added.</para>
@@ -948,12 +948,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">&man.ipfw.4; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN
bits in TCP segments. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.ipfw.4 has been re-implemented. It now uses
+ <para>&man.ipfw.4 has been re-implemented (the new version is
+ commonly referred to as <quote>IPFW2</quote>). It now uses
variable-sized representation of rules in the kernel, similar
to &man.bpf.4; instructions. Most of the externally-visible
behavior (i.e. through &man.ipfw.8;) should be unchanged.,
although &man.ipfw.8; now supports <literal>or</literal>
- connectives between match fields.</para>
+ connectives between match fields. &merged;</para>
<para role="historic">A new ng_eiface netgraph module has been added, which
appears as an Ethernet interface but delivers its Ethernet
@@ -1164,6 +1165,14 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
corruption problems on systems using the VIA 82C686B
Southbridge chip. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver (along with &man.burncd.8;) now
+ supports writing to media in DVD+RW drives.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports accessing ATA devices
+ as SCSI devices via the CAM layer. This feature requires
+ <literal>device atapicam</literal> in the kernel
+ configuration.</para>
+
<para role="historic">The &man.cd.4; driver now has support for write
operations. This allows writing to DVD-RAM, PD and similar
drives that probe as CD devices. Note that change affects
@@ -3609,7 +3618,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>xinetd</application>.</para>
<para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated to
- 4.2.</para>
+ 4.2. &merged;</para>
<para><application>top</application> has been updated to version
3.5b12.</para>
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 385a52c..90a3401 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
modems, serial devices, and other programs that need to look
like a tty. The related &man.uplcom.4; and &man.uvscom.4; drivers provide specific
support for the Prolific PL-2303 serial adapter and the SUNTAC
- Slipper U VS-10U, respectively.</para>
+ Slipper U VS-10U, respectively. &merged;</para>
<para>To increase security, the <literal>UCONSOLE</literal> kernel
configuration option has been removed.</para>
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
activated by default.</para>
<para>The uvisor driver for connecting Handspring Visors via USB
- has been added.</para>
+ has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>A VESA S3 linear framebuffer driver has been added.</para>
@@ -948,12 +948,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">&man.ipfw.4; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN
bits in TCP segments. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.ipfw.4 has been re-implemented. It now uses
+ <para>&man.ipfw.4 has been re-implemented (the new version is
+ commonly referred to as <quote>IPFW2</quote>). It now uses
variable-sized representation of rules in the kernel, similar
to &man.bpf.4; instructions. Most of the externally-visible
behavior (i.e. through &man.ipfw.8;) should be unchanged.,
although &man.ipfw.8; now supports <literal>or</literal>
- connectives between match fields.</para>
+ connectives between match fields. &merged;</para>
<para role="historic">A new ng_eiface netgraph module has been added, which
appears as an Ethernet interface but delivers its Ethernet
@@ -1164,6 +1165,14 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
corruption problems on systems using the VIA 82C686B
Southbridge chip. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver (along with &man.burncd.8;) now
+ supports writing to media in DVD+RW drives.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports accessing ATA devices
+ as SCSI devices via the CAM layer. This feature requires
+ <literal>device atapicam</literal> in the kernel
+ configuration.</para>
+
<para role="historic">The &man.cd.4; driver now has support for write
operations. This allows writing to DVD-RAM, PD and similar
drives that probe as CD devices. Note that change affects
@@ -3609,7 +3618,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>xinetd</application>.</para>
<para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated to
- 4.2.</para>
+ 4.2. &merged;</para>
<para><application>top</application> has been updated to version
3.5b12.</para>
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