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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-11 15:37:37 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-11 15:37:37 +0000 |
commit | 03c94cdf4a56e2c6af161a9cc4d133f88aca1e9f (patch) | |
tree | 3d3d1ba9ae9de5b233990b60a8aab8641ead08f4 /release | |
parent | 5eaedaad6258ce7ce4d0c0fc0b809688de3afa04 (diff) | |
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New release notes: kern.hostuuid, trunk(4), sg (+MFC),
truss(1) uses ptrace(2), uuidgen(1) moved to /bin.
Modified release notes: ZFS manpage update and pc98 support,
fix markup in KSE note.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 29 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 6a4d176..b5d33a5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -345,10 +345,16 @@ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket to a remote host.</para> + <para>A new <varname>kern.hostuuid</varname> sysctl variable + has been added to hold a host's Universally Unique Identifier + (UUID). This UUID is computed or generated by a new + <filename>rc.d/hostid</filename> startup script and, where + possible, is saved to disk to be persistent across reboots.</para> + <para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel). It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in - functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para> + 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> @@ -1085,6 +1091,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting> devices will marked <literal>up</literal> upon creation. &merged; </para> + <para>The &man.trunk.4; driver, ported from OpenBSD and NetBSD, + has been added to support a variety of protocols and algorithms + for link aggregation, failover, and fault tolerance.</para> + <para>Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged;</para> @@ -1243,6 +1253,13 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> option; the <option>-a</option> option is now used to specify the authentication algorithm. &merged;</para> + <para>A new sg driver has been added. It emulates a significant + subset of the Linux SCSI SG passthrough device API, and + intended to allow programs running under Linux emulation + (as well as native &os; applications) to access the + <filename>/dev/sg<replaceable>*</replaceable></filename> + devices supported by Linux. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports <literal>PLAY_MSF</literal>, <literal>PLAY_TRACK</literal>, @@ -1276,8 +1293,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> layer of unions. More information can be found in the &man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged;</para> - <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Support for Sun's ZFS has been + <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.pc98;] Support for Sun's ZFS has been added. More information about this file system can be found + in the &man.zfs.8; manual page or on the <ulink url="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/"> OpenSolaris ZFS page</ulink>.</para> @@ -1742,12 +1760,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> flag for the same functionality as the strace utility (<filename role="package">devel/strace</filename>).</para> + <para>The &man.truss.1; utility no longer depends on the availability + of the &man.procfs.5; file system; it uses the &man.ptrace.2; + interface instead for controlling a traced process.</para> + <para>[&arch.powerpc;] The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/powerpc.</para> <para>The usbd(8) utility has been removed. The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.</para> + <para>The &man.uuidgen.1; utility has been moved from + <filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename>.</para> + <para>The vnconfig(8) utility, which was long ago replaced by &man.mdconfig.8;, has been removed.</para> |