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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-06 23:14:35 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-06 23:14:35 +0000 |
commit | 2b3cd18249bc5fe2b2163525085781ae3ba8316d (patch) | |
tree | d751b87558bc88ad68eaa702dad7d41a49199238 /release/doc | |
parent | 9dc1f87f1b08cc09cfce748d23a6a0ecf8b656d7 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-2b3cd18249bc5fe2b2163525085781ae3ba8316d.zip FreeBSD-src-2b3cd18249bc5fe2b2163525085781ae3ba8316d.tar.gz |
New release notes: Logical CPUs for HTT now enabled using BIOS
settings, options IPFILTER requires options PFIL_HOOKS, last bits of
a.out compiler toolchain are gone, acpiconf(8) -i, asf(8), .snap
directory for snapshots, kdump(1) -p, last(1) -n, libwrap/tcpdchk(8)
support extended tcp_wrappers syntax, repquota(8) -n, savecore(8) -C,
uname(1) -i, hardware notes device trimmage, Turkish translation for
docs.
Modified release notes: Spell "Cronyx-Sigma" correctly in cx(4)
item, spell "FireWire" consistently, fix grammer in puc(4) item, move
uart(4) note from NIC to generic kernel section, spell "NetGraph"
consistently, fix typo in xe(4) note, dynamic linking note more
precise,
Deleted release notes: -pthread removed (this was reverted).
Other: Correct a reference to recent security advisories.
Approved by: re (implicitly)
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 102 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 102 |
2 files changed, 150 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 80def7d..72e78d1 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after - &release.prev.historic;, + &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected. &merged;</para> - <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal + <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para> @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be - accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A + accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; devices.</para> @@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets. &merged;</para> - <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;, + <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4; PCI Universal Communications driver now supports - to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> + connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators. @@ -251,6 +251,13 @@ (e.g. Ultra 30) can now run <application>XFree86</application>.</para> + <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various + classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) + devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but + supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary + to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as + ia64 and sparc64.</para> + <para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented. For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and &man.watchdogd.8;.</para> @@ -291,6 +298,10 @@ Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or unexplained crashes.</para> + <para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are + now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were + disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -324,7 +335,7 @@ <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added. This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, - which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the + which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack for each of these interfaces.</para> @@ -341,13 +352,6 @@ <para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various - classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) - devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but - supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary - to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as - ia64 and sparc64.</para> - <para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec, 155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration, status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use @@ -364,7 +368,7 @@ future growth and new features.</para> <para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28, - and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several + and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para> <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt @@ -394,6 +398,10 @@ to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to specific network interfaces.</para> + <para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature + also requires enabling <literal>options + PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could cause various panics has been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -448,7 +456,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and + <para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and &man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause access to a data structure that was already freed, has been fixed.</para> @@ -510,7 +518,7 @@ &man.geom.4; providers.</para> <para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte - commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these + commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para> @@ -601,6 +609,12 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler + toolchain have been removed.</para> + + <para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option + to print battery information.</para> + <para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been added.</para> @@ -610,6 +624,10 @@ operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous network interfaces. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load + the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging + environment, has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM functionality.</para> @@ -635,6 +653,15 @@ directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a + <filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of + each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>. + &man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will + write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change + avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem + during snapshot creation and also helps + non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para> + <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para> @@ -654,6 +681,13 @@ to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to + display only the trace events corresponding to a specific + process.</para> + + <para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + limit the number of lines in its output report.</para> + <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library, &man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol, which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call @@ -676,6 +710,11 @@ <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 threading library is now built by default.</para> + <para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now + configured to support the extended + <application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by + default.</para> + <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all available codesets.</para> @@ -725,11 +764,18 @@ <para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs has been fixed.</para> + <para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + display users and groups numerically.</para> + <para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote> functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname> compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para> + <para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag + that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump + file.</para> + <para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format toolchain.</para> @@ -747,6 +793,10 @@ <para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6 traffic. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to + return the kernel identification. This name is also available + via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para> + <para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in @@ -758,7 +808,7 @@ &man.rescue.8;. </para> - <para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and + <para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather than static linking. This feature brings support for loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in @@ -801,15 +851,6 @@ </note> </para> - <para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option> - option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading - library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the - presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically - <filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and - <filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the - <varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct - threading library.</para> - <para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated from 4.2 to 4.3.</para> @@ -887,7 +928,14 @@ <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> - <para></para> + <para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent + difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of + specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved + to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this + release.</para> + + <para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been + started.</para> </sect2> 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 80def7d..72e78d1 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after - &release.prev.historic;, + &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected. &merged;</para> - <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx Sigmal + <para arch="i386">The &man.cx.4; driver for Cronyx-Sigma serial interfaces has been overhauled. As a part of this update, the cxconfig userland configuration utility has been replaced by a newer &man.sconfig.8; utility.</para> @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be - accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A + accessed over FireWire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; devices.</para> @@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ symmetric crypto for the 7955 and 7956 chipsets. &merged;</para> - <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;, + <para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4; PCI Universal Communications driver now supports - to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> + connecting parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.safe.4; driver has been added to support SafeNet 1141- and 1741-based crypto accelerators. @@ -251,6 +251,13 @@ (e.g. Ultra 30) can now run <application>XFree86</application>.</para> + <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various + classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) + devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but + supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary + to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as + ia64 and sparc64.</para> + <para>A kernel software watchdog facility has been implemented. For more information, see &man.watchdog.4; and &man.watchdogd.8;.</para> @@ -291,6 +298,10 @@ Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or unexplained crashes.</para> + <para arch="i386">Logical CPUs (with HyperThreading) are + now enabled according to BIOS settings (previously, they were + disabled by default and had to be enabled explicitly).</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -324,7 +335,7 @@ <para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64">The &man.harp.4; driver has been added. This is a pseudo physical interface driver for HARP, - which attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the + which attaches to all NetGraph ATM interface in the system and presents a physical interface to the HARP stack for each of these interfaces.</para> @@ -341,13 +352,6 @@ <para>&man.sk.4; now supports SK-9521 V2.0 and 3COM 3C940 based Gigabit Ethernet NICs. &merged;</para> - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been added to support various - classes of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) - devices. It is an analog of the &man.sio.4; driver but - supports a wider range of devices. This driver is necessary - to support serial ports on certain architectures, such as - ia64 and sparc64.</para> - <para>A new &man.utopia.4; driver supports 25MBit/sec, 155MBit/sec and 622MBit/sec ATM physical layer configuration, status and statistics reporting for the most commonly use @@ -364,7 +368,7 @@ future growth and new features.</para> <para>The &man.xe.4; driver now supports CE2, CEM28, - and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several + and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagrams. Also several bugs in the driver have been fixed.</para> <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt @@ -394,6 +398,10 @@ to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to specific network interfaces.</para> + <para>Enabling the <literal>options IPFILTER</literal> feature + also requires enabling <literal>options + PFIL_HOOKS</literal>.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.ipfw.4; limit rule processing that could cause various panics has been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -448,7 +456,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>A netgraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and + <para>A NetGraph timeout problem in the &man.ng.hci.4; and &man.ng.l2cap.4; kernel modules, which could cause access to a data structure that was already freed, has been fixed.</para> @@ -510,7 +518,7 @@ &man.geom.4; providers.</para> <para>The &man.da.4; driver no longer tries to send 6-byte - commands to USB and Firewire devices. The quirks for these + commands to USB and FireWire devices. The quirks for these devices (which hopefully are now unnecessary) have been disabled; to restore the old behavior, add <literal>options DA_OLD_QUIRKS</literal> to the kernel configuration. &merged;</para> @@ -601,6 +609,12 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para arch="i386">The last bits of the i386-only, a.out compiler + toolchain have been removed.</para> + + <para>&man.acpiconf.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> option + to print battery information.</para> + <para>&man.acpidb.8;, an ACPI DSDT debugger, has been added.</para> @@ -610,6 +624,10 @@ operations only. It should be useful on routers with numerous network interfaces. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.asf.8; utility, which helps load + the symbol files from KLDs into a &man.gdb.1; debugging + environment, has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.atmconfig.8; program has been added for configuration of the ATM drivers and IP-over-ATM functionality.</para> @@ -635,6 +653,15 @@ directory of &man.fsck.8; is now <literal>0700</literal> instead of <literal>01777</literal>. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.fsck.ffs.8; and &man.newfs.8; now create a + <filename>.snap</filename> directory in the root directory of + each filesystem, with group <groupname>operator</groupname>. + &man.fsck.ffs.8;, &man.mksnap.ffs.8;, and &man.dump.8; will + write their filesystem snapshots to this directory. This change + avoids locking access to the root directory of a filesystem + during snapshot creation and also helps + non-<username>root</username> users create snapshots.</para> + <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para> @@ -654,6 +681,13 @@ to test the syntax of commands without actually changing anything. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> option to + display only the trace events corresponding to a specific + process.</para> + + <para>&man.last.1; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + limit the number of lines in its output report.</para> + <para>The <filename>libalias</filename> library, &man.natd.8;, and &man.ppp.8; now support Cisco Skinny Station protocol, which is the protocol used by Cisco IP phones to talk to Cisco Call @@ -676,6 +710,11 @@ <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 threading library is now built by default.</para> + <para><filename>libwrap</filename> and &man.tcpdchk.8; are now + configured to support the extended + <application>tcp_wrappers</application> syntax by + default.</para> + <para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all available codesets.</para> @@ -725,11 +764,18 @@ <para>A bug that &man.rarpd.8; does not recognize removable Ethernet NICs has been fixed.</para> + <para>&man.repquota.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to + display users and groups numerically.</para> + <para>&man.rtld.1; now includes <quote>libmap</quote> functionality by default; the <varname>WITH_LIBMAP</varname> compile knob is unnecessary and has been retired. More information can be found in &man.libmap.conf.5;.</para> + <para>&man.savecore.8; now supports a <option>-C</option> flag + that merely indicates the existence or absence of a coredump + file.</para> + <para>The symorder utility has been removed. It is unnecessary now that all kernels use ELF format and there is no a.out format toolchain.</para> @@ -747,6 +793,10 @@ <para>&man.systat.1; now includes displays for IPv6 and ICMPv6 traffic. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.uname.1; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to + return the kernel identification. This name is also available + via the <varname>kern.ident</varname> sysctl variable.</para> + <para arch="i386,alpha,amd64,sparc64,pc98">A number of utilities available in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now available as a statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in @@ -758,7 +808,7 @@ &man.rescue.8;. </para> - <para>Executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and + <para>Many executables in <filename>/bin</filename> and <filename>/sbin</filename> are now built using dynamic, rather than static linking. This feature brings support for loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in @@ -801,15 +851,6 @@ </note> </para> - <para>The <application>GCC</application> <option>-pthread</option> - option, which formerly controlled linking of the threading - library, has been removed. This flag is confusing in the - presence of multiple threading libraries (specifically - <filename>libc_r</filename>, <filename>libkse</filename>, and - <filename>libthr</filename>). Ports should use the - <varname>PTHREAD_LIBS</varname> variable to select the correct - threading library.</para> - <para><application>GNU Readline</application> has been updated from 4.2 to 4.3.</para> @@ -887,7 +928,14 @@ <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> - <para></para> + <para>To reduce duplication of information (and subsequent + difficulty in maintaining consistency), many instances of + specific devices supported in the Hardware Notes have been moved + to system manual pages. This project is ongoing as of this + release.</para> + + <para>A Turkish (tr_TR.ISO8859-9) translation project has been + started.</para> </sect2> |