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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-10-05 17:22:22 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-10-05 17:22:22 +0000 |
commit | 2ac942dab22587b0f7409e0fc9e11283aab56843 (patch) | |
tree | 39ab30ba3eb62f215519a9c8303f33417d59c600 /release | |
parent | 5669cfde800175bbd2b8b3aa1c84d88fe4ec5cc0 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-2ac942dab22587b0f7409e0fc9e11283aab56843.zip FreeBSD-src-2ac942dab22587b0f7409e0fc9e11283aab56843.tar.gz |
New release notes: crypto(4) and related info
Updated release notes: Update KSE info and add cross-reference to
kse(2) manpage.
Fix a couple of minor typos while I'm here.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 17 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 741ed24..4b7c5c9 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ <para role="historic">The &man.agp.4; driver for AGP devices has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>A new in-kernel cryptographic framework (see &man.crypto.4; + and &man.crypto.9;) has been imported from OpenBSD. It provides + a consistent interface to hardware and software implementations + of cryptographic algorithms for use by the kernel and access to + cryptographic hardware for user-mode applications. + Hardware device drivers are provided to support hifn-based cards + (&man.hifn.4;) and Broadcom-based cards (&man.ubsec.4;).</para> + <para>A new &man.ddb.4; command <command>show pcpu</command> lists some of the per-CPU data.</para> @@ -469,12 +477,11 @@ <para>The &os; kernel scheduler now supports Kernel-Scheduled Entities (KSEs), which provides support for multiple threads of - execution per process similar to Schedular Activations. At this + execution per process similar to Scheduler Activations. At this point, the kernel has most of the changes needed to support threading. The kernel scheduler can schedule multiple threads per - process, but only on a single CPU at a time. Support for - userland programs to create and utilize multiple threads is not - yet completed. + process, but only on a single CPU at a time. More information + can be found in &man.kse.2;. <note> <para>KSE is a work in progress.</para> @@ -3670,7 +3677,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <application>less</application> has been imported.</para> <para>An XML processing library, named - <filename>libbsdxml</filename> has been added for the benefit + <filename>libbsdxml</filename>, has been added for the benefit of XML-using utilities in the base system. It is based almost entirely on an import of <application>expat</application> 1.95.5, but is installed under a different name to avoid 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 741ed24..4b7c5c9 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ <para role="historic">The &man.agp.4; driver for AGP devices has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>A new in-kernel cryptographic framework (see &man.crypto.4; + and &man.crypto.9;) has been imported from OpenBSD. It provides + a consistent interface to hardware and software implementations + of cryptographic algorithms for use by the kernel and access to + cryptographic hardware for user-mode applications. + Hardware device drivers are provided to support hifn-based cards + (&man.hifn.4;) and Broadcom-based cards (&man.ubsec.4;).</para> + <para>A new &man.ddb.4; command <command>show pcpu</command> lists some of the per-CPU data.</para> @@ -469,12 +477,11 @@ <para>The &os; kernel scheduler now supports Kernel-Scheduled Entities (KSEs), which provides support for multiple threads of - execution per process similar to Schedular Activations. At this + execution per process similar to Scheduler Activations. At this point, the kernel has most of the changes needed to support threading. The kernel scheduler can schedule multiple threads per - process, but only on a single CPU at a time. Support for - userland programs to create and utilize multiple threads is not - yet completed. + process, but only on a single CPU at a time. More information + can be found in &man.kse.2;. <note> <para>KSE is a work in progress.</para> @@ -3670,7 +3677,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <application>less</application> has been imported.</para> <para>An XML processing library, named - <filename>libbsdxml</filename> has been added for the benefit + <filename>libbsdxml</filename>, has been added for the benefit of XML-using utilities in the base system. It is based almost entirely on an import of <application>expat</application> 1.95.5, but is installed under a different name to avoid |