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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-08-21 17:52:08 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-08-21 17:52:08 +0000
commitb822306fe07fbe8b43edef64b3b0ca76b9d90ffc (patch)
tree01e279bb261f33c0aa7251860553436b35a71443 /release
parentb0e392e66c25c1e68b509469d03dcccc5922f55b (diff)
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New release notes: OFW_NEWPCI, IP_ONESBCAST, ffsinfo(8).
Modified release notes: Tweak rl(4) note and note MFC.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml21
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml21
2 files changed, 38 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 0a208eb..37156bc 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -145,6 +145,16 @@
is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
&merged;</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">A new OFW PCI framework, conditional on the
+ <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel configuration option, has
+ been added. This addition improves the handling of PCI busses.
+ One user-visible change is that the enumeration of devices is
+ closer to &solaris; (as a result of this change, the numbering
+ of devices may change if more than one unit of a device type is
+ present). The <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel
+ configuration is enabled by default in the
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;,
PCI Universal Communications driver now supports
to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
@@ -221,8 +231,8 @@
support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</para>
<para>The &man.rl.4; driver now has support for the RealTek
- 8139C+ Fast Ethernet chipset and the RealTek 8169 Gigabit
- Ethernet chip.</para>
+ 8139C+ Fast Ethernet chip and the RealTek 8169 Gigabit
+ Ethernet chip. &merged;</para>
<para>The suspend/resume support for the &man.wi.4; driver
now works correctly when the device is configured down.
@@ -235,6 +245,10 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
+ <para>An <literal>IP_ONESBCAST</literal> option has been added
+ to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
+ specific network interfaces.</para>
+
<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support comma-separated address lists
(such as <literal>1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</literal>),
and allow spaces after commas to make lists of addresses more readable.
@@ -341,6 +355,9 @@
polling interval can be controlled with the <option>-i</option>
option.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand
+ UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para>
+
<para>The &man.iasl.8; utility, a compiler/decompiler for ACPI
Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been
added.</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 0a208eb..37156bc 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -145,6 +145,16 @@
is no longer needed when only a USB keyboard is connected.
&merged;</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">A new OFW PCI framework, conditional on the
+ <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel configuration option, has
+ been added. This addition improves the handling of PCI busses.
+ One user-visible change is that the enumeration of devices is
+ closer to &solaris; (as a result of this change, the numbering
+ of devices may change if more than one unit of a device type is
+ present). The <literal>OFW_NEWPCI</literal> kernel
+ configuration is enabled by default in the
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64,alpha,i386,ia64,pc98">The &man.puc.4;,
PCI Universal Communications driver now supports
to connect parallel ports to the &man.ppc.4; driver.</para>
@@ -221,8 +231,8 @@
support IDT77252 based ATM interfaces.</para>
<para>The &man.rl.4; driver now has support for the RealTek
- 8139C+ Fast Ethernet chipset and the RealTek 8169 Gigabit
- Ethernet chip.</para>
+ 8139C+ Fast Ethernet chip and the RealTek 8169 Gigabit
+ Ethernet chip. &merged;</para>
<para>The suspend/resume support for the &man.wi.4; driver
now works correctly when the device is configured down.
@@ -235,6 +245,10 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
+ <para>An <literal>IP_ONESBCAST</literal> option has been added
+ to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
+ specific network interfaces.</para>
+
<para>&man.ipfw.4; rules now support comma-separated address lists
(such as <literal>1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8/30, 9.10.11.12/22</literal>),
and allow spaces after commas to make lists of addresses more readable.
@@ -341,6 +355,9 @@
polling interval can be controlled with the <option>-i</option>
option.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ffsinfo.8; utility has been updated to understand
+ UFS2 filesystems and has been re-enabled.</para>
+
<para>The &man.iasl.8; utility, a compiler/decompiler for ACPI
Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been
added.</para>
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