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author | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-29 11:32:25 +0000 |
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committer | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-29 11:32:25 +0000 |
commit | 9c6390074205910f1eaf39e6434c0e40f8c03b6c (patch) | |
tree | df88e9c1fe5fef4b99039e5699d7a99041cea823 /release | |
parent | a50bed807022af485b0d1a256e203bb4b543d05a (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-9c6390074205910f1eaf39e6434c0e40f8c03b6c.zip FreeBSD-src-9c6390074205910f1eaf39e6434c0e40f8c03b6c.tar.gz |
New release notes:
- edsc(4) added
- pmcstat(4) -c and -t flags, defaults changed
- rpcbind -h and -6 flags
Modified release notes:
- Moved pmcstat information from kernel to userland section
- MSI-X supported as well, remove ref to pci(4) manpage, which is
different from the kernel's PCI code
- rpc.lockd/rpc.statd entry moved to the right place
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 33 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 151e21d..b22ec6a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -346,9 +346,7 @@ <para>&man.hwpmc.4; and &man.pmcstat.8; now support profiling of dynamically loaded kernel modules and - shared objects loaded with &man.dlopen.3;. - &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket - to a remote host.</para> + shared objects loaded with &man.dlopen.3;.</para> <para>A new <varname>kern.hostuuid</varname> sysctl variable has been added to hold a host's Universally Unique Identifier @@ -361,8 +359,9 @@ It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in 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> + <para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and Extended + Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X) has been added to the kernel's + PCI support code. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.priv.9; kernel interface has been added. Its purpose is checking the availability of privilege for threads and credentials. @@ -739,6 +738,9 @@ <para>The &man.ed.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para> + <para>The &man.edsc.4; driver, which provides Ethernet discard network + interfaces, has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.el.4; driver has been removed due to lack of use.</para> <para>The &man.em.4; driver now supports big-endian @@ -1720,6 +1722,14 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> scripts. Symbolic links from its former location have been created for backward compatibility. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.pmcstat.8; program has seen several enhancements: + It can now log over a network socket to a remote host. The + <option>-c</option> now takes a comma-seperated list of CPUs + to configure for PMC allocation. The <option>-t</option> option + has been enhanced to take a regular expression for selecting + processes based on their command names. &man.pmcstat.8; now + allocates system PMCs on all CPUs by default, not just CPU 0.</para> + <para>The &man.powerd.8; program now supports a <option>-P</option> option, which specifies a pidfile to use.</para> @@ -1746,9 +1756,18 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax), LAN (LAN Access Using PPP), and SP (Serial Port). &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.rpcbind.8; program can now bind its TCP listening + socket to an IP address other than INADDR_ANY using the + <option>-h</option> flag. The new <option>-6</option> flag allows + it to bind to IPv6 addresses only.</para> + <para>The &man.rpcgen.1; utility now generates headers and stub files that can be used with ANSI C compilers by default.</para> + <para>The &man.rpc.lockd.8; and &man.rpc.statd.8; programs now + accept <option>-p</option> options to indicate which port they + should bind to. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.rtld.1; runtime linker now supports ELF symbol versioning using GNU semantics. This implementation aims to be compatible with symbol versioning support as implemented by GNU libc and @@ -1757,10 +1776,6 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting> function has been added to allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol.</para> - <para>The &man.rpc.lockd.8; and &man.rpc.statd.8; programs now - accept <option>-p</option> options to indicate which port they - should bind to. &merged;</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.sed.1; utility which can cause incorrect calculation of pattern space length in some cases has been fixed.</para> |