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author | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-10-31 16:52:11 +0000 |
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committer | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-10-31 16:52:11 +0000 |
commit | e9bc61e47f0d61a0c26a2c3e3adc857bbdb4925e (patch) | |
tree | 557ee72552419f714880af075a794104194ea03e /release/doc | |
parent | 02d264a5c2d38559439abc972c7c3aa7eec05f56 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-e9bc61e47f0d61a0c26a2c3e3adc857bbdb4925e.zip FreeBSD-src-e9bc61e47f0d61a0c26a2c3e3adc857bbdb4925e.tar.gz |
New release notes:
hw.pci.do_powerstate change,
FreeBSD/ia64 SMP support,
a kernel config for MAC added,
tnt4882(4) driver added,
agp(4) now supports ATI IGP chipsets,
re(4): D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet card support,
aac(4): Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID controller support,
ata(4): ITE IT8211F, PDC40718, and PDC40719 support,
hptmv(4) update: amd64 and PAE support,
gpt(8) GPT partition label support,
kenv(1) and sysctl(8) -q flag added,
libedit updated,
rpcgen(1) now generate ANSI C code instead of K&R style, and
OpenSSH 4.0p1->4.2p1.
Update release notes:
Fix an entry about ifconfig_<ifn> NOAUTO keyword.
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 60 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 60 |
2 files changed, 114 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index ff4c02c..ed83bd0 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -127,6 +127,23 @@ has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator statistics via a binary structure stream.</para> + <para>The sysctl variable <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> + has been changed from a boolean to a range. + <literal>0</literal> means no power management, + <literal>1</literal> means conservative power management which + any device class that has caused problems is added to the watch list, + <literal>2</literal> means aggressive power management where + any device class that is not fundamental to the system is added to the list, + and <literal>3</literal> means power them all down unconditionally. + The default is <literal>1</literal>.</para> + + <para arch="ia64">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel now enables + SMP support by default.</para> + + <para>Sample kernel configuration files + <filename>src/sys/<replaceable>arch</replaceable>/conf/MAC</filename> + for the Mandatory Access Control framework have been added.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -168,6 +185,9 @@ <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added.</para> + <para>The tnt4882(4) driver which supports National Instruments + PCI-GPIB card has been added.</para> + <para arch="i386">A new loader tunable <varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added. This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first @@ -178,6 +198,8 @@ <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> + <para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI IGP chipsets.</para> + <para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice, and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion.</para> @@ -207,6 +229,9 @@ <para>The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports D-Link DGE-528(T) + Gigabit Ethernet card.</para> + <para>The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> @@ -274,11 +299,18 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> + <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID + controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines.</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly in 48bit mode. For the suspicious controllers the PIO mode will be used for access to over 137GB areas.</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller, + and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise + Fasttrak TX4300.</para> + <para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added. It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename> and mainly for performance testing. @@ -289,6 +321,9 @@ <para>The <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal> class now supports Ext2FS and ReiserFS.</para> + <para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports + amd64 as well as PAE.</para> + <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization @@ -342,6 +377,8 @@ flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the file that the link points to.</para> + <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para> + <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing potentially sensitive keying material to standard output. @@ -356,6 +393,12 @@ argument still is supported for backward compatibility, but now it is deprecated and its use is discouraged.</para> + <para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> + flag to suppress warnings.</para> + + <para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been + updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para> + <para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added. This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an @@ -395,6 +438,12 @@ <para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a <option>-P</option> option which allows to specify pidfile.</para> + <para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files + which can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para> + + <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> + flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para> + <para>The shared library version number of all libraries have been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, @@ -426,9 +475,11 @@ <para>The <varname>removable_interfaces</varname> variable has been removed.</para> - <para>A new variable <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname> - has been added. This allows - <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename> + <para>A new keyword <literal>NOAUTO</literal> in + <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname> + has been added. This prevents configuration of an interface + at boot time or via <filename>/etc/pccard_ether</filename>, + and allows <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename> to be used to start and stop an interface on a purely manual basis.</para> </sect3> @@ -440,6 +491,9 @@ <para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated to v0.9.1 (release).</para> + <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from + version 4.0p1 to version 4.2p1.</para> + <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4.</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 ff4c02c..ed83bd0 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -127,6 +127,23 @@ has been added. This allows to export &man.uma.9; allocator statistics via a binary structure stream.</para> + <para>The sysctl variable <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> + has been changed from a boolean to a range. + <literal>0</literal> means no power management, + <literal>1</literal> means conservative power management which + any device class that has caused problems is added to the watch list, + <literal>2</literal> means aggressive power management where + any device class that is not fundamental to the system is added to the list, + and <literal>3</literal> means power them all down unconditionally. + The default is <literal>1</literal>.</para> + + <para arch="ia64">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel now enables + SMP support by default.</para> + + <para>Sample kernel configuration files + <filename>src/sys/<replaceable>arch</replaceable>/conf/MAC</filename> + for the Mandatory Access Control framework have been added.</para> + <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -168,6 +185,9 @@ <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added.</para> + <para>The tnt4882(4) driver which supports National Instruments + PCI-GPIB card has been added.</para> + <para arch="i386">A new loader tunable <varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added. This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first @@ -178,6 +198,8 @@ <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> + <para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports ATI IGP chipsets.</para> + <para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice, and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion.</para> @@ -207,6 +229,9 @@ <para>The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports D-Link DGE-528(T) + Gigabit Ethernet card.</para> + <para>The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.ste.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> @@ -274,11 +299,18 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> + <para>The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID + controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines.</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly in 48bit mode. For the suspicious controllers the PIO mode will be used for access to over 137GB areas.</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller, + and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise + Fasttrak TX4300.</para> + <para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added. It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename> and mainly for performance testing. @@ -289,6 +321,9 @@ <para>The <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal> class now supports Ext2FS and ReiserFS.</para> + <para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports + amd64 as well as PAE.</para> + <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization @@ -342,6 +377,8 @@ flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the file that the link points to.</para> + <para>The &man.gpt.8; utility now supports setting GPT partition labels.</para> + <para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing potentially sensitive keying material to standard output. @@ -356,6 +393,12 @@ argument still is supported for backward compatibility, but now it is deprecated and its use is discouraged.</para> + <para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> + flag to suppress warnings.</para> + + <para>The <application>libedit</application> library has been + updated from the NetBSD source tree as of August 2005.</para> + <para>The &man.libmemstat.3; library has been added. This is for use by debugging and monitoring applications in tracking kernel memory statistics. It provides an @@ -395,6 +438,12 @@ <para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a <option>-P</option> option which allows to specify pidfile.</para> + <para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files + which can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para> + + <para>The &man.sysctl.8; utility now supports a <option>-q</option> + flag to suppress a limited set of warnings and errors.</para> + <para>The shared library version number of all libraries have been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, @@ -426,9 +475,11 @@ <para>The <varname>removable_interfaces</varname> variable has been removed.</para> - <para>A new variable <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname> - has been added. This allows - <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename> + <para>A new keyword <literal>NOAUTO</literal> in + <varname>ifconfig_<replaceable>ifn</replaceable></varname> + has been added. This prevents configuration of an interface + at boot time or via <filename>/etc/pccard_ether</filename>, + and allows <filename>/etc/rc.d/netif</filename> to be used to start and stop an interface on a purely manual basis.</para> </sect3> @@ -440,6 +491,9 @@ <para><application>libpcap</application> has been updated to v0.9.1 (release).</para> + <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from + version 4.0p1 to version 4.2p1.</para> + <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from version 8.13.3 to version 8.13.4.</para> |