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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-03 22:18:30 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-03 22:18:30 +0000
commit6f82abb03965cd18e244d00e71d698ab588bb4f2 (patch)
tree24334e61bd234c9968194f8191873578adc4cdc0 /release
parentb187b4614074a352788adbb99557c8ca688051ca (diff)
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New release notes: PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES (+MFC), drm drivers,
csplit(1), mk_cmds(1) removal (+MFC), sysinstall(8) multi-volume support (+MFC). Modified release notes: m4 20020426, OpenPAM Cinnamon. Other MFCs noted: CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK. Un-MFC-ed: Emphemeral port range change.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml33
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml33
2 files changed, 58 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 8a41177..067b31c 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
<para arch="i386">The <literal>CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK</literal>
kernel option has been added, which attempts to enable the SSE
feature bit on newer Athlon CPUs if the BIOS has forgotten to
- enable it.</para>
+ enable it. &merged;</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The UltraSPARC platform is now supported by
&os;. The following machines are supported to at least some
@@ -497,6 +497,12 @@
Ultra 2, Ultra 60, Enterprise 220R, and
Enterprise 420R.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">On some systems, the BIOS does not activate
+ the I/O ports and memory of PC devices, thus making them
+ unusable. The <literal>PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES</literal> kernel
+ option forces &os; to enable these devices so that they can be
+ used. &merged;</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -984,7 +990,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The ephemeral port range used for TCP and UDP has been
changed to 49152&ndash;65535 (the old default was
1024&ndash;5000). This increases the number of concurrent
- outgoing connections/streams. &merged;</para>
+ outgoing connections/streams.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1350,6 +1356,14 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para arch="i386">The ich sound driver now support the SiS
7012 chipset. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">Drivers have been added to support the Direct
+ Rendering Infrastructure, which can used to provide 3D
+ acceleration within <application>XFree86</application>. Video
+ cards supported include the 3Dlabs Oxygen GMX 2000 (gammadrm),
+ AGP Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 (mgadrm), 3dfx Voodoo
+ 3/4/5/Banshee (tdfxdrm), AGI ATI Rage 128 (r128drm), and AGP
+ ATI Radeon (radeondrm).</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1870,6 +1884,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>A number of buffer overflows in &man.config.8; have been
fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A new &man.csplit.1; utility, which splits files based on
+ context, has been added.</para>
+
<para>&man.ctags.1; no longer creates a corrupt tags file if the
source file used <literal>//</literal> (C++-style)
comments. &merged;</para>
@@ -2375,6 +2392,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> to the default options in
<filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.mk.cmds.1; and the associated
+ <filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been
+ unused for quite some time. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.moused.8; now takes a <option>-a</option> option to
control mouse acceleration. &merged;</para>
@@ -2776,6 +2797,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.sysinstall.8; no longer mounts the &man.procfs.5;
filesystem by default on new installs.</para>
+ <para>&man.sysinstall.8; now has rudimentary support for
+ retrieving packages from the correct volume of a multiple-volume
+ installation (such as a multi-CD distribution). &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.syslogd.8; can take a <option>-n</option> option to
disable DNS queries for every request. &merged;</para>
@@ -3059,7 +3084,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>lukemftpd</application>, has been imported and is
available as &man.lukemftpd.8;.</para>
- <para>&man.m4.1; has been imported from OpenBSD, as of 19 April
+ <para>&man.m4.1; has been imported from OpenBSD, as of 26 April
2002.</para>
<para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated to
@@ -3069,7 +3094,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
been updated to 4.1.0. &merged;</para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application>
- (<quote>Cineraria</quote> release) has been imported,
+ (<quote>Cinnamon</quote> release) has been imported,
replacing
<application>Linux-PAM</application>.</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 8a41177..067b31c 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
<para arch="i386">The <literal>CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK</literal>
kernel option has been added, which attempts to enable the SSE
feature bit on newer Athlon CPUs if the BIOS has forgotten to
- enable it.</para>
+ enable it. &merged;</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The UltraSPARC platform is now supported by
&os;. The following machines are supported to at least some
@@ -497,6 +497,12 @@
Ultra 2, Ultra 60, Enterprise 220R, and
Enterprise 420R.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">On some systems, the BIOS does not activate
+ the I/O ports and memory of PC devices, thus making them
+ unusable. The <literal>PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES</literal> kernel
+ option forces &os; to enable these devices so that they can be
+ used. &merged;</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -984,7 +990,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The ephemeral port range used for TCP and UDP has been
changed to 49152&ndash;65535 (the old default was
1024&ndash;5000). This increases the number of concurrent
- outgoing connections/streams. &merged;</para>
+ outgoing connections/streams.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1350,6 +1356,14 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para arch="i386">The ich sound driver now support the SiS
7012 chipset. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">Drivers have been added to support the Direct
+ Rendering Infrastructure, which can used to provide 3D
+ acceleration within <application>XFree86</application>. Video
+ cards supported include the 3Dlabs Oxygen GMX 2000 (gammadrm),
+ AGP Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 (mgadrm), 3dfx Voodoo
+ 3/4/5/Banshee (tdfxdrm), AGI ATI Rage 128 (r128drm), and AGP
+ ATI Radeon (radeondrm).</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1870,6 +1884,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>A number of buffer overflows in &man.config.8; have been
fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A new &man.csplit.1; utility, which splits files based on
+ context, has been added.</para>
+
<para>&man.ctags.1; no longer creates a corrupt tags file if the
source file used <literal>//</literal> (C++-style)
comments. &merged;</para>
@@ -2375,6 +2392,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> to the default options in
<filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.mk.cmds.1; and the associated
+ <filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been
+ unused for quite some time. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.moused.8; now takes a <option>-a</option> option to
control mouse acceleration. &merged;</para>
@@ -2776,6 +2797,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.sysinstall.8; no longer mounts the &man.procfs.5;
filesystem by default on new installs.</para>
+ <para>&man.sysinstall.8; now has rudimentary support for
+ retrieving packages from the correct volume of a multiple-volume
+ installation (such as a multi-CD distribution). &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.syslogd.8; can take a <option>-n</option> option to
disable DNS queries for every request. &merged;</para>
@@ -3059,7 +3084,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>lukemftpd</application>, has been imported and is
available as &man.lukemftpd.8;.</para>
- <para>&man.m4.1; has been imported from OpenBSD, as of 19 April
+ <para>&man.m4.1; has been imported from OpenBSD, as of 26 April
2002.</para>
<para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated to
@@ -3069,7 +3094,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
been updated to 4.1.0. &merged;</para>
<para><application>OpenPAM</application>
- (<quote>Cineraria</quote> release) has been imported,
+ (<quote>Cinnamon</quote> release) has been imported,
replacing
<application>Linux-PAM</application>.</para>
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