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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-07 17:46:09 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-07 17:46:09 +0000
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MFP4: First errata items for 5.1-RELEASE.
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- <para></para>
+ <para>No advisories.</para>
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<![ %release.type.snapshot [
- <para></para>
+ <para>The RAIDframe disk driver described in &man.raid.4; is
+ non-functional for this release.</para>
+
+ <para>ACPI seems to make some i386 machines unstable. Turning off
+ ACPI support may help solve some of these problems; see an item
+ in <xref linkend="late-news">.</para>
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<![ %release.type.snapshot [
- <para></para>
+ <para>&man.ipfw.4; should work correctly on strict-alignment
+ 64-bit architectures such as alpha and sparc64.</para>
+
+ <para>The release notes should have stated that the
+ <filename>libthr</filename> library is built by default for the
+ i386 platform.</para>
+
+ <para>&os; &release.prev; includes some new boot loader scripts
+ designed to make booting &os; with different options easier.
+ This may help diagnose bootstrapping problems. These scripts
+ build on the existing Forth-based boot loader scripts (thus,
+ <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> and other existing loader
+ configuration files still apply). They are only installed by
+ default for new binary installs on i386 machines. The new
+ scripts present a boot-time menu that controls how &os; is
+ booted, and include options to turn off ACPI, a <quote>safe
+ mode</quote> boot, single-user booting, and verbose booting.
+ <quote>Safe mode</quote> booting can be particularly useful when
+ compatibility with a system's hardware is uncertain, and sets
+ the following kernel tunable variables:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 # disable ACPI (i386 only)
+hw.ata.ata_dma=0 # disable IDE DMA
+hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 # disable ATAPI/IDE DMA
+hw.ata.wc=0 # disable IDE disk write cache
+hw.eisa_slots=0 # disable probing for EISA devices</programlisting>
+
+ <para>For new installs on i386 architecture machines,
+ &man.sysinstall.8; will try to determine if ACPI was disabled
+ via the new boot loader scripts mentioned above, and if so,
+ ask if this change should be made permanent.</para>
+
+ <para>The release notes should have mentioned that work on the
+ following features was sponsored by the Defense Advanced
+ Research Projects Agency (DARPA): OpenPAM, NSS support, PAE
+ support, various MAC framework updates, the GEOM disk geometry
+ system.</para>
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