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author | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-04-16 18:38:04 +0000 |
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committer | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-04-16 18:38:04 +0000 |
commit | da1055b4cfd3cf914cf3162631c1f2028a541d0b (patch) | |
tree | f18ff731d30498f5255277dbc87f1af5ff181bef /release | |
parent | 011a2271761ced9999775a5356bd91541873d735 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-da1055b4cfd3cf914cf3162631c1f2028a541d0b.zip FreeBSD-src-da1055b4cfd3cf914cf3162631c1f2028a541d0b.tar.gz |
New release note:
acpi_toshiba(4) video switching support,
getvfsent(3) removed,
sx driver added,
pci(4) bus resource and power management updated,
per-interface polling(4) support,
ata(4) early support for Promise SX4/SX4000,
dump(8) and restore(8) -P option,
make(1) .warning directive,
ACPI-CA 20040402 import, and
CVS 1.11.15 import.
Update release note:
Use &man.twa.4;.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 63 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 63 |
2 files changed, 108 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 498ae3c..d34f6c0 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports + video output switching.</para> + <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions.</para> @@ -204,6 +207,8 @@ removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver, which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver.</para> + <para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para> + <para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para> @@ -211,6 +216,9 @@ This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ + intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para> + <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables @@ -347,6 +355,17 @@ <para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver from working has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have + been updated. + + <note> + <para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management + has been enabled, it may cause problems on some systems. + This can be disabled by setting the tunable + <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to 0.</para> + </note> + </para> + <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -365,6 +384,13 @@ <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down the transmission rate. &merged;</para> + + <para>The per-interface &man.polling.4; support has been + implemented. Currently &man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, + &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, + &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4; + support this capability and it can be controlled + via &man.ifconfig.8;.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> @@ -420,6 +446,18 @@ work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved.</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command + sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers + (PDC203** PDC206**). + + <note> + <para>This also adds preliminary support for the + Promise SX4/SX4000 as a <quote>normal</quote> Promise ATA + controller; ATA RAID's are supported though + but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1.</para> + </note> + </para> + <para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para> @@ -430,7 +468,7 @@ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly, has been fixed.</para> - <para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports + <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing @@ -493,6 +531,14 @@ removed from the &os; base system, and has been available in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para> + <para>&man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support + a <option>-P</option> option to specify backup methods + other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to + a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either + <varname>$DUMP_VOLUME</varname> or <varname>$RESTORE_VOLUME</varname> + defined in the environment, respectively. + For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;.</para> + <para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para> @@ -567,7 +613,10 @@ utilities do not work with <filename>libpthread</filename>.</para> </note> - <para> + </para> + + <para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal> + directive.</para> <para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has been added. This is primarily @@ -690,18 +739,14 @@ <title>Contributed Software</title> <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated - from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040311 snapshot.</para> + from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot.</para> <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 release.</para> - <para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application> - 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain - malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using - <command>cvs pserver</command> mode, attempts to authenticate as - <username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via - &man.syslog.3;.</para> + <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from + version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15.</para> <para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been 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 498ae3c..d34f6c0 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports + video output switching.</para> + <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions.</para> @@ -204,6 +207,8 @@ removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver, which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver.</para> + <para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para> + <para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para> @@ -211,6 +216,9 @@ This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para> + <para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ + intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para> + <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables @@ -347,6 +355,17 @@ <para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver from working has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have + been updated. + + <note> + <para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management + has been enabled, it may cause problems on some systems. + This can be disabled by setting the tunable + <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to 0.</para> + </note> + </para> + <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para> @@ -365,6 +384,13 @@ <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down the transmission rate. &merged;</para> + + <para>The per-interface &man.polling.4; support has been + implemented. Currently &man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, + &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, + &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4; + support this capability and it can be controlled + via &man.ifconfig.8;.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> @@ -420,6 +446,18 @@ work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved.</para> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command + sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers + (PDC203** PDC206**). + + <note> + <para>This also adds preliminary support for the + Promise SX4/SX4000 as a <quote>normal</quote> Promise ATA + controller; ATA RAID's are supported though + but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1.</para> + </note> + </para> + <para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para> @@ -430,7 +468,7 @@ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly, has been fixed.</para> - <para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports + <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing @@ -493,6 +531,14 @@ removed from the &os; base system, and has been available in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para> + <para>&man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support + a <option>-P</option> option to specify backup methods + other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to + a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either + <varname>$DUMP_VOLUME</varname> or <varname>$RESTORE_VOLUME</varname> + defined in the environment, respectively. + For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;.</para> + <para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para> @@ -567,7 +613,10 @@ utilities do not work with <filename>libpthread</filename>.</para> </note> - <para> + </para> + + <para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal> + directive.</para> <para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has been added. This is primarily @@ -690,18 +739,14 @@ <title>Contributed Software</title> <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated - from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040311 snapshot.</para> + from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot.</para> <para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 release.</para> - <para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application> - 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain - malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using - <command>cvs pserver</command> mode, attempts to authenticate as - <username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via - &man.syslog.3;.</para> + <para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from + version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15.</para> <para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been |