summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/release
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2005-10-02 16:14:41 +0000
committerhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2005-10-02 16:14:41 +0000
commit57ff4e8e87ba086a7cc0b2bb654094221fa7ed55 (patch)
treec914b8e7fade59322dac40a2553f54e0b5635274 /release
parent26ab27c951f709109041d595ce810f95a3116d12 (diff)
downloadFreeBSD-src-57ff4e8e87ba086a7cc0b2bb654094221fa7ed55.zip
FreeBSD-src-57ff4e8e87ba086a7cc0b2bb654094221fa7ed55.tar.gz
New release notes:
acpi_thermal(4) passive cooling support, ichsmb(4) unloading bug fixed, smbios(4) support on amd64, hw.apic.enable_extint added, sound(4) improvements, MPSAFE: the bottom half of NFS, snd_als4000(4), snd_cmi(4), snd_via8233(4), snd_via82c686(4), and natm(4), GEOM_ZERO class added, umass(4) PLAY_* commands support, moused(8) -H flag, shared library version bump, and pkg_version(1) -o and -O flags.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml77
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml77
2 files changed, 146 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 9bb657d..d0394ea 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -139,14 +139,41 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
+ <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports
+ passive cooling.</para>
+
<para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3
processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>A bug which prevents the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module
+ from unloading has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">A new loader tunable
+ <varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added.
+ This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first
+ I/O APIC. At least one chipset for Intel Pentium III seems
+ to need this even though all of the pins in the 8259A's are masked.
+ The default is still to mask the ExtINT pin.</para>
+
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports
+ wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice,
+ and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.als4000.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.cmi.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.via8233.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.via82c686.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
@@ -174,12 +201,19 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.natm.4; Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
+ It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
+ and mainly for performance testing.
+ On <literal>BIO_READ</literal> request it zero-fills
+ <varname>bio_data</varname> and on <literal>BIO_WRITE</literal>
+ it does nothing.</para>
+
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
@@ -191,12 +225,21 @@
added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration
and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for
more information. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports
+ <literal>PLAY_MSF</literal>,
+ <literal>PLAY_TRACK</literal>,
+ <literal>PLAY_TRACK_REL</literal>,
+ <literal>PAUSE</literal>,
+ <literal>PLAY_12</literal> commands so that
+ the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle USB CD drive.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with
+ the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -209,6 +252,13 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
+ <para>Padding of <varname>ai_addrlen</varname>
+ in <varname>struct addrinfo</varname> has been removed,
+ which was originally for the ABI compatibility.
+ For example, this change break the ABI compatibility of
+ &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architecture including
+ &os;/alpha, &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing
potentially sensitive keying material to standard output.
@@ -221,6 +271,22 @@
statistics, wrapped around the binary stream sysctl variables
for the allocators. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.moused.8; now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
+ to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a
+ <option>-V</option> flag for vertical virtual scrolling.</para>
+
+ <para>The shared library version number of all libraries have
+ been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries
+ include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc,
+ libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive,
+ libbegemot, libbluetooth, libbsnmp, libbz2, libc_r, libcrypt,
+ libdevstat, libedit, libexpat, libfetch, libftpio, libgpib,
+ libipsec, libkiconv, libmagic, libmp, libncp, libncurses,
+ libnetgraph, libngatm, libopie, libpam, libpthread, libradius,
+ libsdp, libsmb, libtacplus, libthr, libthread_db, libugidfw,
+ libusbhid, libutil, libvgl, libwrap, libypclnt, libm, libcrypto,
+ libssh, and libssl.</para>
+
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
@@ -244,7 +310,10 @@
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; now supports an <option>-o</option>
+ flag to show the origin recorded on package generation
+ instead of the package name, and an <option>-O</option> flag
+ to list packages whose registered origin is origin only.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
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 9bb657d..d0394ea 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -139,14 +139,41 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
+ <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports
+ passive cooling.</para>
+
<para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3
processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>A bug which prevents the &man.ichsmb.4; kernel module
+ from unloading has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64">The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">A new loader tunable
+ <varname>hw.apic.enable_extint</varname> has been added.
+ This tunable can be used not to mask the ExtINT pin on the first
+ I/O APIC. At least one chipset for Intel Pentium III seems
+ to need this even though all of the pins in the 8259A's are masked.
+ The default is still to mask the ExtINT pin.</para>
+
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.sound.4; driver now supports
+ wider range sampling rate, multiple precisions choice,
+ and 24/32 bit PCM format conversion.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.als4000.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.cmi.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.via8233.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.snd.via82c686.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
@@ -174,12 +201,19 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.natm.4; Native Mode ATM protocol layer is now MPSAFE.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
+ <para>A new GEOM class <literal>GEOM_ZERO</literal> has been added.
+ It creates very huge provider (41PB) <filename>/dev/gzero</filename>
+ and mainly for performance testing.
+ On <literal>BIO_READ</literal> request it zero-fills
+ <varname>bio_data</varname> and on <literal>BIO_WRITE</literal>
+ it does nothing.</para>
+
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
various new features such as RAID volume and RAID member
state/settings reporting, periodic volume re-synchronization
@@ -191,12 +225,21 @@
added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration
and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for
more information. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports
+ <literal>PLAY_MSF</literal>,
+ <literal>PLAY_TRACK</literal>,
+ <literal>PLAY_TRACK_REL</literal>,
+ <literal>PAUSE</literal>,
+ <literal>PLAY_12</literal> commands so that
+ the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle USB CD drive.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with
+ the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -209,6 +252,13 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
+ <para>Padding of <varname>ai_addrlen</varname>
+ in <varname>struct addrinfo</varname> has been removed,
+ which was originally for the ABI compatibility.
+ For example, this change break the ABI compatibility of
+ &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architecture including
+ &os;/alpha, &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag to allow printing
potentially sensitive keying material to standard output.
@@ -221,6 +271,22 @@
statistics, wrapped around the binary stream sysctl variables
for the allocators. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.moused.8; now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
+ to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a
+ <option>-V</option> flag for vertical virtual scrolling.</para>
+
+ <para>The shared library version number of all libraries have
+ been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries
+ include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc,
+ libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive,
+ libbegemot, libbluetooth, libbsnmp, libbz2, libc_r, libcrypt,
+ libdevstat, libedit, libexpat, libfetch, libftpio, libgpib,
+ libipsec, libkiconv, libmagic, libmp, libncp, libncurses,
+ libnetgraph, libngatm, libopie, libpam, libpthread, libradius,
+ libsdp, libsmb, libtacplus, libthr, libthread_db, libugidfw,
+ libusbhid, libutil, libvgl, libwrap, libypclnt, libm, libcrypto,
+ libssh, and libssl.</para>
+
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
@@ -244,7 +310,10 @@
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
- <para></para>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; now supports an <option>-o</option>
+ flag to show the origin recorded on package generation
+ instead of the package name, and an <option>-O</option> flag
+ to list packages whose registered origin is origin only.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud