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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-08-12 00:12:52 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-08-12 00:12:52 +0000
commit706343dd530b1cc01166778c22c643d03b9fb838 (patch)
treea4c69d27d5aa3dbdbc02d580a0cde7fecbb0a01e /release
parent6ec49198681e5755c4e17ffad5e5c984095b524d (diff)
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New release notes: swap_pager changes, ng_atmpif(4).
Modified release notes: locale(1) -m, -march=pentium4 re-enabled.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml25
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml25
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 21efac3..46e99ca 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
+ <para>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible
+ changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width
+ striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O
+ throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number
+ of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para>
+
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
@@ -248,6 +254,10 @@
rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added.
+ It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one
+ to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para>
+
<para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
being done.</para>
@@ -351,7 +361,8 @@
threading library is now built by default.</para>
<para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
- now POSIX-compliant.</para>
+ now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all
+ available codesets.</para>
<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem
ID for each file system in addition to the normal information
@@ -404,7 +415,17 @@
to 8.3.6.</para>
<para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to
- 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).</para>
+ 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application>
+ generated incorrect code when
+ <literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was
+ enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with
+ this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of
+ <literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
<para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from
1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</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 21efac3..46e99ca 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
+ <para>The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible
+ changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width
+ striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O
+ throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number
+ of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads.</para>
+
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
@@ -248,6 +254,10 @@
rules</quote>. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;.
&merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added.
+ It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one
+ to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware.</para>
+
<para>To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have
a <varname>ip_id</varname> field set unless fragmentation is
being done.</para>
@@ -351,7 +361,8 @@
threading library is now built by default.</para>
<para>The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is
- now POSIX-compliant.</para>
+ now POSIX-compliant. A new <option>-m</option> option shows all
+ available codesets.</para>
<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem
ID for each file system in addition to the normal information
@@ -404,7 +415,17 @@
to 8.3.6.</para>
<para><application>GCC</application> has been updated from 3.2.2 to
- 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).</para>
+ 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot).
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Previous versions of <application>GCC</application>
+ generated incorrect code when
+ <literal>-march=pentium4</literal> optimization was
+ enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with
+ this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of
+ <literal>CPUTYPE=p4</literal> has been removed.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
<para><application>lukemftp</application> has been updated from
1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.</para>
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