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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 9b8aa4a..5d374af 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ processors will be treated like additional physical processors for the purposes of process scheduling. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">Support for the Physical Address Extensions + (PAE) capability on Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors + has been added. This allows the use of up to 64GB of RAM in a + machine, although the amount of memory usable by any single + process (or the &os; kernel) is unchanged. For more + information, see the &man.pae.4; manual page.</para> + </sect3> <sect3> @@ -238,7 +245,7 @@ <para>The cm driver now supports IPX. &merged;</para> - <para>A new wlan module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The + <para>A new &man.wlan.4; module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The &man.wi.4; driver now uses this facility.</para> <para arch="i386,alpha,pc98,sparc64">A timing bug in the @@ -406,6 +413,10 @@ directives cancel prior <literal>option</literal> and <literal>makeoption</literal> directives, respectively.</para> + <para>The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been added to show + information about a disk device and optionally to run a naive + performance test.</para> + <para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to &man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para> @@ -473,11 +484,23 @@ and visible interface than the existing sysctl variables. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.jail.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to + output an identifier for a newly-created jail.</para> + + <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility has been added to execute a + command inside an existing jail.</para> + + <para>The &man.jls.8; utility has been added to list existing + jails.</para> + <para>&man.kenv.1; has been moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename> to make it available at times during system startup when only the root filesystem is mounted.</para> + <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-j</option> option to + kill all processes inside a jail.</para> + <para>The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed.</para> @@ -495,6 +518,10 @@ SUID-<username>root</username> executable designed for use by members of the <groupname>operator</groupname>group.</para> + <para>&man.mount.8; and &man.umount.8; now accept a + <option>-F</option> option to specify an alternate &man.fstab.5; + file.</para> + <para>&man.mount.nfs.8; now supports a <option>-c</option> flag to avoid doing a &man.connect.2; for UDP mount points. This option must be used if the server does not reply to requests from the @@ -536,6 +563,11 @@ stuck at <literal>0</literal> has been fixed. (&man.rand.3; remains unsuitable for all but trivial uses.)</para> + <para>&man.rtld.1; now has support for the dynamic mapping of + shared object dependencies. More information can be found in + &man.libmap.conf.5;. This is an optional feature, disabled by + default.</para> + <para>&man.sem.open.3; now correctly handles multiple opens of the same semaphore; as a result, &man.sem.close.3; no longer crashes calling programs.</para> @@ -569,6 +601,17 @@ <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to execute multiple copies of the same utility in parallel.</para> + <para>A 1:1 threading package (where for every pthread in an + application there is one KSE and thread) has been implemented. + Under this model, the kernel handles all thread scheduling + decisions and all signal delivery. This uses some of the common + KSE code, and is a restricted case of the M:N threading work + still in progress. The <filename>libthr</filename> library + implementing the userland portion of this functionality is a + drop-in replacement for the <filename>libc_r</filename> library. + Note that <filename>libthr</filename> is not (at this time) + built by default.</para> + <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> 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 9b8aa4a..5d374af 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ processors will be treated like additional physical processors for the purposes of process scheduling. &merged;</para> + <para arch="i386">Support for the Physical Address Extensions + (PAE) capability on Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors + has been added. This allows the use of up to 64GB of RAM in a + machine, although the amount of memory usable by any single + process (or the &os; kernel) is unchanged. For more + information, see the &man.pae.4; manual page.</para> + </sect3> <sect3> @@ -238,7 +245,7 @@ <para>The cm driver now supports IPX. &merged;</para> - <para>A new wlan module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The + <para>A new &man.wlan.4; module provides 802.11 link-layer support. The &man.wi.4; driver now uses this facility.</para> <para arch="i386,alpha,pc98,sparc64">A timing bug in the @@ -406,6 +413,10 @@ directives cancel prior <literal>option</literal> and <literal>makeoption</literal> directives, respectively.</para> + <para>The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been added to show + information about a disk device and optionally to run a naive + performance test.</para> + <para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to &man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para> @@ -473,11 +484,23 @@ and visible interface than the existing sysctl variables. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.jail.8; now supports a <option>-i</option> flag to + output an identifier for a newly-created jail.</para> + + <para>The &man.jexec.8; utility has been added to execute a + command inside an existing jail.</para> + + <para>The &man.jls.8; utility has been added to list existing + jails.</para> + <para>&man.kenv.1; has been moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename> to make it available at times during system startup when only the root filesystem is mounted.</para> + <para>&man.killall.1; now supports a <option>-j</option> option to + kill all processes inside a jail.</para> + <para>The MAKEDEV script is now unnecessary, due to the mandatory presence of &man.devfs.5;, and has been removed.</para> @@ -495,6 +518,10 @@ SUID-<username>root</username> executable designed for use by members of the <groupname>operator</groupname>group.</para> + <para>&man.mount.8; and &man.umount.8; now accept a + <option>-F</option> option to specify an alternate &man.fstab.5; + file.</para> + <para>&man.mount.nfs.8; now supports a <option>-c</option> flag to avoid doing a &man.connect.2; for UDP mount points. This option must be used if the server does not reply to requests from the @@ -536,6 +563,11 @@ stuck at <literal>0</literal> has been fixed. (&man.rand.3; remains unsuitable for all but trivial uses.)</para> + <para>&man.rtld.1; now has support for the dynamic mapping of + shared object dependencies. More information can be found in + &man.libmap.conf.5;. This is an optional feature, disabled by + default.</para> + <para>&man.sem.open.3; now correctly handles multiple opens of the same semaphore; as a result, &man.sem.close.3; no longer crashes calling programs.</para> @@ -569,6 +601,17 @@ <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> option to execute multiple copies of the same utility in parallel.</para> + <para>A 1:1 threading package (where for every pthread in an + application there is one KSE and thread) has been implemented. + Under this model, the kernel handles all thread scheduling + decisions and all signal delivery. This uses some of the common + KSE code, and is a restricted case of the M:N threading work + still in progress. The <filename>libthr</filename> library + implementing the userland portion of this functionality is a + drop-in replacement for the <filename>libc_r</filename> library. + Note that <filename>libthr</filename> is not (at this time) + built by default.</para> + <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> |