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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-04-11 00:50:33 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-04-11 00:50:33 +0000
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New release notes: PAE, diskinfo(8), jail(8) -i, jexec(8), jls(8),
killall(1) -j, mount(8)/umount(8) -F, rtld(1) dynamic mapping and libmap.conf(5), 1:1 threading. Modified release notes: Use wlan(4) manpage hyperlink.
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml45
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml45
2 files changed, 88 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 9b8aa4a..5d374af 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@
processors will be treated like additional physical processors
for the purposes of process scheduling. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">Support for the Physical Address Extensions
+ (PAE) capability on Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors
+ has been added. This allows the use of up to 64GB of RAM in a
+ machine, although the amount of memory usable by any single
+ process (or the &os; kernel) is unchanged. For more
+ information, see the &man.pae.4; manual page.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -238,7 +245,7 @@
<para>The cm driver now supports IPX. &merged;</para>
- <para>A new wlan module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The
+ <para>A new &man.wlan.4; module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The
&man.wi.4; driver now uses this facility.</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha,pc98,sparc64">A timing bug in the
@@ -406,6 +413,10 @@
directives cancel prior <literal>option</literal> and
<literal>makeoption</literal> directives, respectively.</para>
+ <para>The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been added to show
+ information about a disk device and optionally to run a naive
+ performance test.</para>
+
<para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
&man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
@@ -473,11 +484,23 @@
and visible interface than the existing sysctl
variables. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.jail.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to
+ output an identifier for a newly-created jail.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility has been added to execute a
+ command inside an existing jail.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.jls.8; utility has been added to list existing
+ jails.</para>
+
<para>&man.kenv.1; has been moved from
<filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename> to
make it available at times during system startup when only the
root filesystem is mounted.</para>
+ <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-j</option> option to
+ kill all processes inside a jail.</para>
+
<para>The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory
presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed.</para>
@@ -495,6 +518,10 @@
SUID-<username>root</username> executable designed for use by
members of the <groupname>operator</groupname>group.</para>
+ <para>&man.mount.8; and &man.umount.8; now accept a
+ <option>-F</option> option to specify an alternate &man.fstab.5;
+ file.</para>
+
<para>&man.mount.nfs.8; now supports a <option>-c</option> flag to
avoid doing a &man.connect.2; for UDP mount points. This option
must be used if the server does not reply to requests from the
@@ -536,6 +563,11 @@
stuck at <literal>0</literal> has been fixed. (&man.rand.3;
remains unsuitable for all but trivial uses.)</para>
+ <para>&man.rtld.1; now has support for the dynamic mapping of
+ shared object dependencies. More information can be found in
+ &man.libmap.conf.5;. This is an optional feature, disabled by
+ default.</para>
+
<para>&man.sem.open.3; now correctly handles multiple opens of the
same semaphore; as a result, &man.sem.close.3; no longer crashes
calling programs.</para>
@@ -569,6 +601,17 @@
<para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to
execute multiple copies of the same utility in parallel.</para>
+ <para>A 1:1 threading package (where for every pthread in an
+ application there is one KSE and thread) has been implemented.
+ Under this model, the kernel handles all thread scheduling
+ decisions and all signal delivery. This uses some of the common
+ KSE code, and is a restricted case of the M:N threading work
+ still in progress. The <filename>libthr</filename> library
+ implementing the userland portion of this functionality is a
+ drop-in replacement for the <filename>libc_r</filename> library.
+ Note that <filename>libthr</filename> is not (at this time)
+ built by default.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
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 9b8aa4a..5d374af 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@
processors will be treated like additional physical processors
for the purposes of process scheduling. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">Support for the Physical Address Extensions
+ (PAE) capability on Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors
+ has been added. This allows the use of up to 64GB of RAM in a
+ machine, although the amount of memory usable by any single
+ process (or the &os; kernel) is unchanged. For more
+ information, see the &man.pae.4; manual page.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -238,7 +245,7 @@
<para>The cm driver now supports IPX. &merged;</para>
- <para>A new wlan module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The
+ <para>A new &man.wlan.4; module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The
&man.wi.4; driver now uses this facility.</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha,pc98,sparc64">A timing bug in the
@@ -406,6 +413,10 @@
directives cancel prior <literal>option</literal> and
<literal>makeoption</literal> directives, respectively.</para>
+ <para>The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been added to show
+ information about a disk device and optionally to run a naive
+ performance test.</para>
+
<para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
&man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
@@ -473,11 +484,23 @@
and visible interface than the existing sysctl
variables. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.jail.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to
+ output an identifier for a newly-created jail.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility has been added to execute a
+ command inside an existing jail.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.jls.8; utility has been added to list existing
+ jails.</para>
+
<para>&man.kenv.1; has been moved from
<filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename> to
make it available at times during system startup when only the
root filesystem is mounted.</para>
+ <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-j</option> option to
+ kill all processes inside a jail.</para>
+
<para>The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory
presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed.</para>
@@ -495,6 +518,10 @@
SUID-<username>root</username> executable designed for use by
members of the <groupname>operator</groupname>group.</para>
+ <para>&man.mount.8; and &man.umount.8; now accept a
+ <option>-F</option> option to specify an alternate &man.fstab.5;
+ file.</para>
+
<para>&man.mount.nfs.8; now supports a <option>-c</option> flag to
avoid doing a &man.connect.2; for UDP mount points. This option
must be used if the server does not reply to requests from the
@@ -536,6 +563,11 @@
stuck at <literal>0</literal> has been fixed. (&man.rand.3;
remains unsuitable for all but trivial uses.)</para>
+ <para>&man.rtld.1; now has support for the dynamic mapping of
+ shared object dependencies. More information can be found in
+ &man.libmap.conf.5;. This is an optional feature, disabled by
+ default.</para>
+
<para>&man.sem.open.3; now correctly handles multiple opens of the
same semaphore; as a result, &man.sem.close.3; no longer crashes
calling programs.</para>
@@ -569,6 +601,17 @@
<para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to
execute multiple copies of the same utility in parallel.</para>
+ <para>A 1:1 threading package (where for every pthread in an
+ application there is one KSE and thread) has been implemented.
+ Under this model, the kernel handles all thread scheduling
+ decisions and all signal delivery. This uses some of the common
+ KSE code, and is a restricted case of the M:N threading work
+ still in progress. The <filename>libthr</filename> library
+ implementing the userland portion of this functionality is a
+ drop-in replacement for the <filename>libc_r</filename> library.
+ Note that <filename>libthr</filename> is not (at this time)
+ built by default.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
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