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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-18 23:23:32 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-18 23:23:32 +0000
commit160787defa68db5cd86d2f6e58ede94d252298e9 (patch)
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parentf5032b44ed645487cb692a766e2d91c042b55c9e (diff)
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New release notes: P1003_1B gone, CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG, FAST_IPSEC,
ifconfig(8) monitor, ofwdump(8), ping(8) -o, quota(1) -l, tunefs(8) -a/-l, ugidfw(8). Modified release notes: se driver replaced by sab driver.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml58
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml58
2 files changed, 114 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 1961c83..7a832a3 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@
mistakenly assigning addresses that conflict with these
ROMs. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The <literal>P1003_1B</literal> kernel option is no longer
+ used and has been removed.</para>
+
<para arch="i386,pc98">PECOFF (Win32 Execution file format) support has
been added.</para>
@@ -348,7 +351,7 @@
<para arch="sparc64">Support has been added for SBus-based
devices.</para>
- <para arch="sparc64">The se driver, which supports the Siemens
+ <para arch="sparc64">The sab driver, which supports the Siemens
SAB82532 serial chip found on many newer Sparc Ultra machines,
has been added.</para>
@@ -620,6 +623,18 @@
added; this requires the <literal>CPU_ELAN</literal> option in
the kernel configuration file. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The <literal>CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG</literal>
+ kernel configuration option has been added. Enabling this
+ option has been shown to dramatically improve performance on
+ VMWare client OS installs.
+
+ <note>
+ <para>This option is not compatible with
+ <literal>SMP</literal> kernels.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -974,6 +989,24 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
in the presence of dynamic attachments and detatchments. Full
support for VLANs is also supported. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel option now allows
+ the IPsec implementation to use the kernel crypo framework,
+ along with its support for hardware cryptographic
+ acceleration.
+ <note>
+ <para>The <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> and
+ <literal>IPSEC</literal> options are mutually
+ exclusive.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>The <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> option is, at the
+ moment, not compatible with IPv6 or the
+ <literal>INET6</literal> option.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
<para>A &man.gre.4; driver, which can encapsulate IP packets
using GRE (RFC 1701) or minimal IP encapsulation for Mobile IP
(RFC 2004), has been added.</para>
@@ -2550,6 +2583,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
on an interface, via the new <option>promisc</option>
flag. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports a <literal>monitor</literal>
+ interface flag, which blocks transmission of packets on that
+ interface. This feature is useful for mintoring network traffic
+ without interacting with the network in question.</para>
+
<para role="historic">The syntax of &man.inetd.8;'s support for &man.faithd.8; is
now compatible with that of other BSDs. &merged;</para>
@@ -2979,6 +3017,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<option>-s</option> option to output signed decimal shorts, and
the <option>-t</option> option to specify output type. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.ofwdump.8; utility has been added to
+ examine the OpenFirmware device tree.</para>
+
<para><application>PAM</application> support has been added for
account management and sessions.</para>
@@ -3074,6 +3115,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to
beep when packets are lost. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-o</option> flag to exit
+ after receiving a reply.</para>
+
<para role="historic">Userland &man.ppp.8; has received a number of updates and
bug fixes. &merged;</para>
@@ -3114,6 +3158,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.pwd.1; now supports the <option>-L</option> flag to
print the logical current working directory. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.quota.1; now takes a <option>-l</option> flag to
+ suppress quote checks on NFS filesystems.</para>
+
<para>The pseudo-random number generator implemented by
&man.rand.3; has been improved to provide less biased
results.</para>
@@ -3444,6 +3491,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">The &man.truncate.1; utility, which truncates or extends the
length of files, has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.tunefs.8; now supports the <option>-a</option> and
+ <option>-l</option> flags to enable and disable the
+ <literal>FS_ACLS</literal> and <literal>FS_MULTILABEL</literal>
+ administrative flags on UFS file system.</para>
+
+ <para>A &man.ugidfw.8; utility has been added to manage the
+ rulesets provided by the <literal>mac_bsdextended</literal>
+ Mandatory Access Control policy, similar to &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
+
<para role="historic">Ukrainian language support has been added to the &os;
console. &merged;</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 1961c83..7a832a3 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@
mistakenly assigning addresses that conflict with these
ROMs. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The <literal>P1003_1B</literal> kernel option is no longer
+ used and has been removed.</para>
+
<para arch="i386,pc98">PECOFF (Win32 Execution file format) support has
been added.</para>
@@ -348,7 +351,7 @@
<para arch="sparc64">Support has been added for SBus-based
devices.</para>
- <para arch="sparc64">The se driver, which supports the Siemens
+ <para arch="sparc64">The sab driver, which supports the Siemens
SAB82532 serial chip found on many newer Sparc Ultra machines,
has been added.</para>
@@ -620,6 +623,18 @@
added; this requires the <literal>CPU_ELAN</literal> option in
the kernel configuration file. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The <literal>CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG</literal>
+ kernel configuration option has been added. Enabling this
+ option has been shown to dramatically improve performance on
+ VMWare client OS installs.
+
+ <note>
+ <para>This option is not compatible with
+ <literal>SMP</literal> kernels.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -974,6 +989,24 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
in the presence of dynamic attachments and detatchments. Full
support for VLANs is also supported. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> kernel option now allows
+ the IPsec implementation to use the kernel crypo framework,
+ along with its support for hardware cryptographic
+ acceleration.
+ <note>
+ <para>The <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> and
+ <literal>IPSEC</literal> options are mutually
+ exclusive.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>The <literal>FAST_IPSEC</literal> option is, at the
+ moment, not compatible with IPv6 or the
+ <literal>INET6</literal> option.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
<para>A &man.gre.4; driver, which can encapsulate IP packets
using GRE (RFC 1701) or minimal IP encapsulation for Mobile IP
(RFC 2004), has been added.</para>
@@ -2550,6 +2583,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
on an interface, via the new <option>promisc</option>
flag. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports a <literal>monitor</literal>
+ interface flag, which blocks transmission of packets on that
+ interface. This feature is useful for mintoring network traffic
+ without interacting with the network in question.</para>
+
<para role="historic">The syntax of &man.inetd.8;'s support for &man.faithd.8; is
now compatible with that of other BSDs. &merged;</para>
@@ -2979,6 +3017,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<option>-s</option> option to output signed decimal shorts, and
the <option>-t</option> option to specify output type. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.ofwdump.8; utility has been added to
+ examine the OpenFirmware device tree.</para>
+
<para><application>PAM</application> support has been added for
account management and sessions.</para>
@@ -3074,6 +3115,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to
beep when packets are lost. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-o</option> flag to exit
+ after receiving a reply.</para>
+
<para role="historic">Userland &man.ppp.8; has received a number of updates and
bug fixes. &merged;</para>
@@ -3114,6 +3158,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.pwd.1; now supports the <option>-L</option> flag to
print the logical current working directory. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.quota.1; now takes a <option>-l</option> flag to
+ suppress quote checks on NFS filesystems.</para>
+
<para>The pseudo-random number generator implemented by
&man.rand.3; has been improved to provide less biased
results.</para>
@@ -3444,6 +3491,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para role="historic">The &man.truncate.1; utility, which truncates or extends the
length of files, has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.tunefs.8; now supports the <option>-a</option> and
+ <option>-l</option> flags to enable and disable the
+ <literal>FS_ACLS</literal> and <literal>FS_MULTILABEL</literal>
+ administrative flags on UFS file system.</para>
+
+ <para>A &man.ugidfw.8; utility has been added to manage the
+ rulesets provided by the <literal>mac_bsdextended</literal>
+ Mandatory Access Control policy, similar to &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
+
<para role="historic">Ukrainian language support has been added to the &os;
console. &merged;</para>
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