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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-11 15:37:37 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-11 15:37:37 +0000
commit03c94cdf4a56e2c6af161a9cc4d133f88aca1e9f (patch)
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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.
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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>
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