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author | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-04-18 19:35:48 +0000 |
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committer | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-04-18 19:35:48 +0000 |
commit | a06dffe7afa09b5dbe3b3ef67a89ada98038f394 (patch) | |
tree | 8135316eafe3a05f0eaeb7ca8f368d87e2606295 /release | |
parent | bd8059b20280d7818906a78d0f91196214d9b734 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-a06dffe7afa09b5dbe3b3ef67a89ada98038f394.zip FreeBSD-src-a06dffe7afa09b5dbe3b3ef67a89ada98038f394.tar.gz |
Some grammar/language improvements, more to come. Also note some
merged items.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 45 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 45 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 3b13e52..50eef27 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -156,30 +156,29 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for HPET time counter.</para> + <para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter.</para> - <para>&man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports for setting the fan control + <para>The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the - fan control mode is manual. Note that manual control of the fan speed - needs to set a sysctl variable - <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname> - to zero (manual) with extreme precaution. - This is because disabling automatic fan control might + fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed, + the sysctl variable <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname> + needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with + extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para> - <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show lock</literal> + <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show lock</literal> command. If the argument has a valid lock class, this displays various information about the lock and calls a new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or xlock'ed sx lock).</para> - <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show sleepq</literal> + <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show sleepq</literal> command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para> - <para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple - <literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> does not return + <para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple + <literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> sequence does not return descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para> <para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows @@ -204,9 +203,9 @@ <para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been added. For each child process whose status has been changed, - a SIGCHLD instance is queued, if the signal is stilling pending, - and process changed status several times, signal information - is updated to reflect latest process status. + a SIGCHLD instance is queued. If the signal is still pending, + and the process changed status several times, the signal information + is updated to reflect the latest process status. There is a loader tunable <varname>kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild</varname> which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> queuing feature.</para> @@ -224,20 +223,20 @@ <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn</varname> has been removed. Instead the <varname>brandinfo</varname> - structure has been extended to be able to have + structure has been extended to be able to provide the <literal>BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN</literal> flag for all brands that usually allow executing ELF dynamic binaries.</para> <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.forcesigexit</varname> has been added. This forces a process - to sigexit if a trap signal is being hold by current thread or - ignored by current process and is enabled by default.</para> + to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or + ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para> - <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's &man.malloc.9; - has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and + <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9; + facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where - it was freed. For more details, see &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para> + it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para> <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal</varname> which makes all network interfaces be created with the label @@ -305,13 +304,13 @@ <title>Hardware Support</title> <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports - passive cooling.</para> + passive cooling. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports <filename>/dev/cardbus<replaceable>%d</replaceable>.cis</filename>.</para> <para>The &man.ce.4; driver, which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters, - has been added.</para> + has been added. &merged;</para> <para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. @@ -409,7 +408,7 @@ <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, - has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;.</para> + has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE.</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 3b13e52..50eef27 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -156,30 +156,29 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for HPET time counter.</para> + <para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter.</para> - <para>&man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports for setting the fan control + <para>The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the - fan control mode is manual. Note that manual control of the fan speed - needs to set a sysctl variable - <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname> - to zero (manual) with extreme precaution. - This is because disabling automatic fan control might + fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed, + the sysctl variable <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname> + needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with + extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para> - <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show lock</literal> + <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show lock</literal> command. If the argument has a valid lock class, this displays various information about the lock and calls a new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or xlock'ed sx lock).</para> - <para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show sleepq</literal> + <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show sleepq</literal> command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para> - <para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple - <literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> does not return + <para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple + <literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> sequence does not return descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para> <para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows @@ -204,9 +203,9 @@ <para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been added. For each child process whose status has been changed, - a SIGCHLD instance is queued, if the signal is stilling pending, - and process changed status several times, signal information - is updated to reflect latest process status. + a SIGCHLD instance is queued. If the signal is still pending, + and the process changed status several times, the signal information + is updated to reflect the latest process status. There is a loader tunable <varname>kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild</varname> which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> queuing feature.</para> @@ -224,20 +223,20 @@ <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn</varname> has been removed. Instead the <varname>brandinfo</varname> - structure has been extended to be able to have + structure has been extended to be able to provide the <literal>BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN</literal> flag for all brands that usually allow executing ELF dynamic binaries.</para> <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.forcesigexit</varname> has been added. This forces a process - to sigexit if a trap signal is being hold by current thread or - ignored by current process and is enabled by default.</para> + to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or + ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para> - <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's &man.malloc.9; - has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and + <para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9; + facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where - it was freed. For more details, see &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para> + it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para> <para>A new sysctl variable <varname>security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal</varname> which makes all network interfaces be created with the label @@ -305,13 +304,13 @@ <title>Hardware Support</title> <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports - passive cooling.</para> + passive cooling. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports <filename>/dev/cardbus<replaceable>%d</replaceable>.cis</filename>.</para> <para>The &man.ce.4; driver, which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters, - has been added.</para> + has been added. &merged;</para> <para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. @@ -409,7 +408,7 @@ <para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, - has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;.</para> + has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE.</para> |