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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-29 11:32:25 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-29 11:32:25 +0000
commit9c6390074205910f1eaf39e6434c0e40f8c03b6c (patch)
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New release notes:
- edsc(4) added - pmcstat(4) -c and -t flags, defaults changed - rpcbind -h and -6 flags Modified release notes: - Moved pmcstat information from kernel to userland section - MSI-X supported as well, remove ref to pci(4) manpage, which is different from the kernel's PCI code - rpc.lockd/rpc.statd entry moved to the right place
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml33
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 151e21d..b22ec6a 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -346,9 +346,7 @@
<para>&man.hwpmc.4; and &man.pmcstat.8; now support profiling
of dynamically loaded kernel modules and
- shared objects loaded with &man.dlopen.3;.
- &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket
- to a remote host.</para>
+ shared objects loaded with &man.dlopen.3;.</para>
<para>A new <varname>kern.hostuuid</varname> sysctl variable
has been added to hold a host's Universally Unique Identifier
@@ -361,8 +359,9 @@
It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in
functionality) for all platforms except &arch.sun4v;.</para>
- <para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) has been added to
- the &man.pci.4; driver. &merged;</para>
+ <para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and Extended
+ Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X) has been added to the kernel's
+ PCI support code. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.priv.9; kernel interface has been added. Its purpose
is checking the availability of privilege for threads and credentials.
@@ -739,6 +738,9 @@
<para>The &man.ed.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+ <para>The &man.edsc.4; driver, which provides Ethernet discard network
+ interfaces, has been added. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.el.4; driver has been removed due to lack of use.</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver now supports big-endian
@@ -1720,6 +1722,14 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
scripts. Symbolic links from its former location have been
created for backward compatibility. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.pmcstat.8; program has seen several enhancements:
+ It can now log over a network socket to a remote host. The
+ <option>-c</option> now takes a comma-seperated list of CPUs
+ to configure for PMC allocation. The <option>-t</option> option
+ has been enhanced to take a regular expression for selecting
+ processes based on their command names. &man.pmcstat.8; now
+ allocates system PMCs on all CPUs by default, not just CPU 0.</para>
+
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a
<option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para>
@@ -1746,9 +1756,18 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax),
LAN (LAN Access Using PPP), and SP (Serial Port). &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.rpcbind.8; program can now bind its TCP listening
+ socket to an IP address other than INADDR_ANY using the
+ <option>-h</option> flag. The new <option>-6</option> flag allows
+ it to bind to IPv6 addresses only.</para>
+
<para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files
that can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para>
+ <para>The &man.rpc.lockd.8; and &man.rpc.statd.8; programs now
+ accept <option>-p</option> options to indicate which port they
+ should bind to. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The &man.rtld.1; runtime linker now supports ELF symbol versioning
using GNU semantics. This implementation aims to be compatible
with symbol versioning support as implemented by GNU libc and
@@ -1757,10 +1776,6 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
function has been added to
allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol.</para>
- <para>The &man.rpc.lockd.8; and &man.rpc.statd.8; programs now
- accept <option>-p</option> options to indicate which port they
- should bind to. &merged;</para>
-
<para>A bug in the &man.sed.1; utility which can cause
incorrect calculation of pattern space length in some cases
has been fixed.</para>
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