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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-11 17:03:36 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-11 17:03:36 +0000
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New release notes: acct(2) appends to files, basename(1) -a/-s, GDB
5.2. Updated release notes: em(4) update, ACPI CA 20020611, mountd(8)/nfsd(8) moved to /usr/sbin, vidcontrol(1) -S. MFCs noted: dump(8) -S.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml33
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml33
2 files changed, 58 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 781881f..3f176e8 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
+ <para>&man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in
+ append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable
+ accounting to an append-only file.</para>
+
<para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to
provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756
chipset. &merged;</para>
@@ -672,8 +676,10 @@
module.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">The &man.em.4; driver has been added to
- support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544
- Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports
+ support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545EM,
+ and 82546EB
+ Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver has VLAN
+ support, and also supports
transmit/receive checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543
and 82544-based adapters. &merged;</para>
@@ -1471,7 +1477,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
(ACPI), a multi-vendor standard for configuration and power
management, has been added. This functionality has been
provided by the <application>Intel ACPI Component
- Architecture</application> project, as of the ACPI CA 20020404
+ Architecture</application> project, as of the ACPI CA 20020611
snapshot. Some backward compatability for applications using
the older APM standard has been provided.</para>
@@ -1937,6 +1943,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The system &man.awk.1; now refers to
<application>BWK awk</application>.</para>
+ <para>&man.basename.1; now accept <option>-a</option> and
+ <option>-s</option> flags, which allow it to perform the
+ &man.basename.3; function on multiple files.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.biff.1; now accepts a <option>b</option> argument to
+ enable <quote>bell notification</quote> of new mail (which does
+ not disturb the terminal contents as <command>biff y</command>
+ would).</para>
+
<para arch="pc98" role="historic">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager
installation and configuration utility, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@@ -2083,7 +2098,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
backups. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports a new <option>-S</option> flag to allow
- it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit.</para>
+ it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit. &merged;</para>
<para role="historic">&man.edquota.8; now takes a <option>-f</option> option to
allow limiting the prototype quota distribution (specified with
@@ -2573,6 +2588,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been
unused for quite some time. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.mountd.8; and &man.nfsd.8; have moved from
+ <filename>/sbin</filename> to <filename>/usr/sbin</filename>.</para>
+
<para role="historic">&man.moused.8; now takes a <option>-a</option> option to
control mouse acceleration. &merged;</para>
@@ -3141,6 +3159,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<option>-h</option> option to set the size of the history
buffer. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-S</option> to
+ allow the user to disable VTY switching.</para>
+
<para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed
from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly
between stripes.</para>
@@ -3284,6 +3305,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<envar>GCC_OPTIONS</envar>, which can hold a set of default
options for <application>GCC</application>. &merged;</para>
+ <para><application>gdb</application> has been updated to a
+ snapshot of <application>gdb</application> 5.2 from 27 June
+ 2002.</para>
+
<para role="historic"><application>GNATS</application> has been updated to
3.113. &merged;</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 781881f..3f176e8 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
+ <para>&man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in
+ append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable
+ accounting to an append-only file.</para>
+
<para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to
provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756
chipset. &merged;</para>
@@ -672,8 +676,10 @@
module.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">The &man.em.4; driver has been added to
- support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544
- Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports
+ support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545EM,
+ and 82546EB
+ Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver has VLAN
+ support, and also supports
transmit/receive checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543
and 82544-based adapters. &merged;</para>
@@ -1471,7 +1477,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
(ACPI), a multi-vendor standard for configuration and power
management, has been added. This functionality has been
provided by the <application>Intel ACPI Component
- Architecture</application> project, as of the ACPI CA 20020404
+ Architecture</application> project, as of the ACPI CA 20020611
snapshot. Some backward compatability for applications using
the older APM standard has been provided.</para>
@@ -1937,6 +1943,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The system &man.awk.1; now refers to
<application>BWK awk</application>.</para>
+ <para>&man.basename.1; now accept <option>-a</option> and
+ <option>-s</option> flags, which allow it to perform the
+ &man.basename.3; function on multiple files.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.biff.1; now accepts a <option>b</option> argument to
+ enable <quote>bell notification</quote> of new mail (which does
+ not disturb the terminal contents as <command>biff y</command>
+ would).</para>
+
<para arch="pc98" role="historic">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager
installation and configuration utility, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@@ -2083,7 +2098,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
backups. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports a new <option>-S</option> flag to allow
- it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit.</para>
+ it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit. &merged;</para>
<para role="historic">&man.edquota.8; now takes a <option>-f</option> option to
allow limiting the prototype quota distribution (specified with
@@ -2573,6 +2588,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been
unused for quite some time. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.mountd.8; and &man.nfsd.8; have moved from
+ <filename>/sbin</filename> to <filename>/usr/sbin</filename>.</para>
+
<para role="historic">&man.moused.8; now takes a <option>-a</option> option to
control mouse acceleration. &merged;</para>
@@ -3141,6 +3159,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<option>-h</option> option to set the size of the history
buffer. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-S</option> to
+ allow the user to disable VTY switching.</para>
+
<para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed
from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly
between stripes.</para>
@@ -3284,6 +3305,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<envar>GCC_OPTIONS</envar>, which can hold a set of default
options for <application>GCC</application>. &merged;</para>
+ <para><application>gdb</application> has been updated to a
+ snapshot of <application>gdb</application> 5.2 from 27 June
+ 2002.</para>
+
<para role="historic"><application>GNATS</application> has been updated to
3.113. &merged;</para>
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