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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-04 06:43:34 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-04 06:43:34 +0000
commitbe562d9939bef023b3a501eec050d1df59f6a2d3 (patch)
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parent744e04d2193d3d044d5d8a3e37ae2801b0ed1a6f (diff)
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New release notes: UCONSOLE removed, viapm(4), geom(4), ifconfig
link (+MFC), libusb->libusbhid (+MFC), usbhidctl(1) (+MFC). MFCs noted: texinfo 4.1.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml24
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml24
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 0b55a65..96ba258 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -284,11 +284,17 @@
for supported scanners. The HP ScanJet 4100C, 5200C and 6300C
are known to be working. &merged;</para>
+ <para>To increase security, the <literal>UCONSOLE</literal> kernel
+ configuration option has been removed.</para>
+
<para>The <literal>USER_LDT</literal> kernel option is now
activated by default.</para>
<para>A VESA S3 linear framebuffer driver has been added.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.viapm.4; driver for VIA SMBus
+ power management controllers has been added.</para>
+
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<para>Write combining for crashdumps has been implemented. This
@@ -1019,6 +1025,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
automatic; the driver is also much more flexible in setting
the densities of various subdevices.</para>
+ <para>The &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework
+ has been added; this extensible framework is designed to
+ support a wide variety of operations on I/O requests on their
+ way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.</para>
+
<para>The ida disk driver now has crashdump
support. &merged;</para>
@@ -1963,8 +1974,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.indent.1; has gained some new formatting
options. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.ifconfig.8; command can set the link-layer address of
- an interface using the <option>lladdr</option> parameter.
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; can set the link-layer address of
+ an interface using the <option>link</option> parameter.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; can now accept addresses in slash/CIDR
@@ -2114,6 +2125,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The functions from <filename>libposix1e</filename> have been
integrated into <filename>libc</filename>.</para>
+ <para><filename>libusb</filename> has been renamed as
+ <filename>libusbhid</filename>, following NetBSD's naming
+ conventions. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.ln.1; now takes an <option>-i</option> option to
request user confirmation before overwriting an existing
file. &merged;</para>
@@ -2606,6 +2621,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.usbdevs.8; now supports a <option>-d</option> flag to
show the device driver associated with each device.</para>
+ <para>The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility has been added to manipulate
+ USB Human Interface Devices. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.uudecode.1; now accepts a <option>-o</option> option to
set its output file.</para>
@@ -2852,7 +2870,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>xinetd</application>.</para>
<para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated to
- 4.1.</para>
+ 4.1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>top</application> has been updated to version
3.5b12.</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 0b55a65..96ba258 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -284,11 +284,17 @@
for supported scanners. The HP ScanJet 4100C, 5200C and 6300C
are known to be working. &merged;</para>
+ <para>To increase security, the <literal>UCONSOLE</literal> kernel
+ configuration option has been removed.</para>
+
<para>The <literal>USER_LDT</literal> kernel option is now
activated by default.</para>
<para>A VESA S3 linear framebuffer driver has been added.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.viapm.4; driver for VIA SMBus
+ power management controllers has been added.</para>
+
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<para>Write combining for crashdumps has been implemented. This
@@ -1019,6 +1025,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
automatic; the driver is also much more flexible in setting
the densities of various subdevices.</para>
+ <para>The &man.geom.4; disk I/O request transformation framework
+ has been added; this extensible framework is designed to
+ support a wide variety of operations on I/O requests on their
+ way from the upper kernel to the device drivers.</para>
+
<para>The ida disk driver now has crashdump
support. &merged;</para>
@@ -1963,8 +1974,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.indent.1; has gained some new formatting
options. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.ifconfig.8; command can set the link-layer address of
- an interface using the <option>lladdr</option> parameter.
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; can set the link-layer address of
+ an interface using the <option>link</option> parameter.
&merged;</para>
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; can now accept addresses in slash/CIDR
@@ -2114,6 +2125,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The functions from <filename>libposix1e</filename> have been
integrated into <filename>libc</filename>.</para>
+ <para><filename>libusb</filename> has been renamed as
+ <filename>libusbhid</filename>, following NetBSD's naming
+ conventions. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.ln.1; now takes an <option>-i</option> option to
request user confirmation before overwriting an existing
file. &merged;</para>
@@ -2606,6 +2621,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.usbdevs.8; now supports a <option>-d</option> flag to
show the device driver associated with each device.</para>
+ <para>The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility has been added to manipulate
+ USB Human Interface Devices. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.uudecode.1; now accepts a <option>-o</option> option to
set its output file.</para>
@@ -2852,7 +2870,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>xinetd</application>.</para>
<para><application>texinfo</application> has been updated to
- 4.1.</para>
+ 4.1. &merged;</para>
<para><application>top</application> has been updated to version
3.5b12.</para>
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