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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-06-22 21:52:42 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-06-22 21:52:42 +0000 |
commit | f7dadfce1b27c3260abfeeae1055fb47e2c02a3e (patch) | |
tree | c2e6710f565a4f0b620a0a4e7dc6fab3059196f8 /release | |
parent | df8395282d3bbecdd1df73bdd4ec5a26b6dee916 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-f7dadfce1b27c3260abfeeae1055fb47e2c02a3e.zip FreeBSD-src-f7dadfce1b27c3260abfeeae1055fb47e2c02a3e.tar.gz |
New release notes: MCA support on ia64, rp(4) update (+MFC), tx(4)
multicast filtering, ahd driver, calendar(1) -W/-F, nice(1) -n,
pam_echo(8), pam_exec(8), pselect(3), wc(1) -m, USD/PSD documents
restored.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 107 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 107 |
2 files changed, 214 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 6c4c01e..82d459f 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ additional configuration from the administrator. Work on this feature was sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs.</para> + <para arch="ia64">Machine Check Architecture (MCA) records are now + collected at boot time and made available through the + <varname>hw.mca.*</varname> sysctl variables.</para> + <para role="historic">The <varname>maxusers</varname> kernel configuration parameter is now a boot-time tunable variable. The kernel parameters derived from <varname>maxusers</varname> are now also @@ -732,6 +736,9 @@ &man.ray.4; interfaces can be modified by &man.raycontrol.8;. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.rp.4; driver has been updated to + version 3.02 and can now be built as a module. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386" role="historic">The sbni driver, for supporting the Granch SBNI12 series of ISA and PCI point-to-point communications interfaces, has been added. The <filename @@ -763,6 +770,9 @@ <para role="historic">The &man.ti.4; driver correctly masks VLAN tags. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.tx.4; driver now supports true multicast + filtering.</para> + <para role="historic">The &man.txp.4; driver has been added to support NICs based on the 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) chipset. &merged;</para> @@ -1047,6 +1057,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> including a rare hang on Ultra2/U160 controllers. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">The ahd driver, which supports the Adaptec + AIC7902 Ultra320 PCI-X SCSI Controller chip, has been + added.</para> + <para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.asr.4; driver, which provides support for the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller family, as well as the DPT SmartRAID V and VI families, has been @@ -1903,6 +1917,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.c89.1; has been converted from a shell script to a binary executable, fixing some minor bugs. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.calendar.1; now takes a <option>-W</option> option, + which operates similar to <option>-A</option> but without + special treatment at weekends, and a <option>-F</option>option + to change the notion of <quote>Friday</quote>.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">A minimalized version of &man.camcontrol.8; is now available on the installation floppy. This allows it to rescan for devices that have been connected after booting, or to @@ -2589,6 +2608,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.ngctl.8; now supports a <option>write</option> command to send a data packet down a given hook. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.nice.1; now uses the <option>-n</option> option to + specify the <quote>niceness</quote> of the utility being + run. &merged;</para> + <para role="historic">&man.nl.1;, a line numbering filter program, has been added. &merged;</para> @@ -2607,6 +2630,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> than a single <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file. <filename>/etc/pam.d/README</filename> has more details.</para> + <para>A &man.pam.echo.8; echo service module has been added.</para> + + <para>A &man.pam.exec.8; program execution service module has been + added.</para> + <para>A &man.pam.ftp.8; module has been added to allow authentication of anonymous FTP users.</para> @@ -2718,6 +2746,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> information from a specified swap device) has been useless for some time; it has been removed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.pselect.3; library function (introduced by POSIX.1 + as a slightly stronger version of &man.select.2;) has been + added.</para> + <para role="historic">&man.pwd.1; can now double as &man.realpath.1;, a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. &merged;</para> @@ -3080,6 +3112,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.watch.8; now takes a <option>-f</option> option to specify a &man.snp.4; device to use. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.wc.1; now supports a <option>-m</option> flag to + count characters, rather than bytes.</para> + <para>&man.which.1; is now a C program, rather than a Perl script.</para> @@ -3806,6 +3841,78 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> &man.release.7; for details.</para> </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Documentation</title> + + <para>A number of formerly-encumbered documents from the 4.4 BSD + Programmer's Supplementary Documents have been restored to + <filename>/usr/share/doc/psd</filename>. These include:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The UNIX Time-Sharing System</emphasis> + (<filename>01.cacm</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>UNIX Implementation</emphasis> + (<filename>02.implement</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The UNIX I/O System</emphasis> + (<filename>03.iosys</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>UNIX Programming — Second Edition</emphasis> + (<filename>04.uprog</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The C Programming Language — Reference Manual</emphasis> + (<filename>06.Clang</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>An Introduction to the Source Code Control System</emphasis> + (<filename>14.sccs</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>Yacc: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler</emphasis> + (<filename>15.yacc</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>Lex — A Lexical Analyzer Generator</emphasis> + (<filename>16.lex</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The M4 Macro Processor</emphasis> + (<filename>17.m4</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <para>Several formerly-encumbered documents from the 4.4 BSD + User's Supplementary Documents have been restored to + <filename>/usr/share/doc/usd</filename>. They include:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>NROFF/TROFF User's Manual</emphasis> + (<filename>21.troff</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>A TROFF Tutorial</emphasis> + (<filename>22.trofftut</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </sect2> + </sect1> <sect1> 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 6c4c01e..82d459f 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ additional configuration from the administrator. Work on this feature was sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs.</para> + <para arch="ia64">Machine Check Architecture (MCA) records are now + collected at boot time and made available through the + <varname>hw.mca.*</varname> sysctl variables.</para> + <para role="historic">The <varname>maxusers</varname> kernel configuration parameter is now a boot-time tunable variable. The kernel parameters derived from <varname>maxusers</varname> are now also @@ -732,6 +736,9 @@ &man.ray.4; interfaces can be modified by &man.raycontrol.8;. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.rp.4; driver has been updated to + version 3.02 and can now be built as a module. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386" role="historic">The sbni driver, for supporting the Granch SBNI12 series of ISA and PCI point-to-point communications interfaces, has been added. The <filename @@ -763,6 +770,9 @@ <para role="historic">The &man.ti.4; driver correctly masks VLAN tags. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.tx.4; driver now supports true multicast + filtering.</para> + <para role="historic">The &man.txp.4; driver has been added to support NICs based on the 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) chipset. &merged;</para> @@ -1047,6 +1057,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> including a rare hang on Ultra2/U160 controllers. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">The ahd driver, which supports the Adaptec + AIC7902 Ultra320 PCI-X SCSI Controller chip, has been + added.</para> + <para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.asr.4; driver, which provides support for the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller family, as well as the DPT SmartRAID V and VI families, has been @@ -1903,6 +1917,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.c89.1; has been converted from a shell script to a binary executable, fixing some minor bugs. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.calendar.1; now takes a <option>-W</option> option, + which operates similar to <option>-A</option> but without + special treatment at weekends, and a <option>-F</option>option + to change the notion of <quote>Friday</quote>.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98" role="historic">A minimalized version of &man.camcontrol.8; is now available on the installation floppy. This allows it to rescan for devices that have been connected after booting, or to @@ -2589,6 +2608,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.ngctl.8; now supports a <option>write</option> command to send a data packet down a given hook. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.nice.1; now uses the <option>-n</option> option to + specify the <quote>niceness</quote> of the utility being + run. &merged;</para> + <para role="historic">&man.nl.1;, a line numbering filter program, has been added. &merged;</para> @@ -2607,6 +2630,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> than a single <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file. <filename>/etc/pam.d/README</filename> has more details.</para> + <para>A &man.pam.echo.8; echo service module has been added.</para> + + <para>A &man.pam.exec.8; program execution service module has been + added.</para> + <para>A &man.pam.ftp.8; module has been added to allow authentication of anonymous FTP users.</para> @@ -2718,6 +2746,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> information from a specified swap device) has been useless for some time; it has been removed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.pselect.3; library function (introduced by POSIX.1 + as a slightly stronger version of &man.select.2;) has been + added.</para> + <para role="historic">&man.pwd.1; can now double as &man.realpath.1;, a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. &merged;</para> @@ -3080,6 +3112,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">&man.watch.8; now takes a <option>-f</option> option to specify a &man.snp.4; device to use. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.wc.1; now supports a <option>-m</option> flag to + count characters, rather than bytes.</para> + <para>&man.which.1; is now a C program, rather than a Perl script.</para> @@ -3806,6 +3841,78 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> &man.release.7; for details.</para> </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Documentation</title> + + <para>A number of formerly-encumbered documents from the 4.4 BSD + Programmer's Supplementary Documents have been restored to + <filename>/usr/share/doc/psd</filename>. These include:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The UNIX Time-Sharing System</emphasis> + (<filename>01.cacm</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>UNIX Implementation</emphasis> + (<filename>02.implement</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The UNIX I/O System</emphasis> + (<filename>03.iosys</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>UNIX Programming — Second Edition</emphasis> + (<filename>04.uprog</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The C Programming Language — Reference Manual</emphasis> + (<filename>06.Clang</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>An Introduction to the Source Code Control System</emphasis> + (<filename>14.sccs</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>Yacc: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler</emphasis> + (<filename>15.yacc</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>Lex — A Lexical Analyzer Generator</emphasis> + (<filename>16.lex</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>The M4 Macro Processor</emphasis> + (<filename>17.m4</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <para>Several formerly-encumbered documents from the 4.4 BSD + User's Supplementary Documents have been restored to + <filename>/usr/share/doc/usd</filename>. They include:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>NROFF/TROFF User's Manual</emphasis> + (<filename>21.troff</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><emphasis>A TROFF Tutorial</emphasis> + (<filename>22.trofftut</filename>)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </sect2> + </sect1> <sect1> |