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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 932a79e..dcfd800 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -88,20 +88,10 @@ <title>What's New</title> <para>This section describes -<![ %include.historic; [ - the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; - since &release.prev;. - In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; - branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. -]]> -<![ %no.include.historic; [ - many of the user-visible new or changed features in &os; - since &release.prev;. It includes items that are unique to the - &release.branch; branch, as well as some features that may have been - recently merged to - other branches (after &os; &release.prev.historic;). The latter - items are marked as &merged;. -]]> + the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; + since &release.prev;. + In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; + branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. </para> <para>Typical release note items @@ -494,6 +484,12 @@ this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually been commented out for a long time.</para> + <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">A new kernel option + <literal>PREEMPTION</literal> has been added. + This allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted + by higher priority threads. It helps with interactivity and + allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8; now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para> @@ -525,8 +521,10 @@ <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support BWCT console management serial adapters.</para> - <para>The ULE scheduler is now the default scheduler in the - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. For the average user, + <para>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler. + Note that the conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used + as the default schedular in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. + For the average user, interactivity is reported to be better in many cases. This means less <quote>skipping</quote> and <quote>jerking</quote> in interactive applications while the machine is very busy. This @@ -538,6 +536,13 @@ kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para> + <para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for + the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges, + such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS + receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver). + This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow + control and output.</para> + <para>A linear search algorithm used in &man.vm.map.findspace.9; has been replaced with an O(log n) algorithm built into the map entry splay tree. @@ -545,6 +550,9 @@ for applications that &man.mmap.2; many hundreds or thousands of regions.</para> + <para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.witness_*</varname> + has been renamed to <varname>debug.witness.*</varname>.</para> + <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> <para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers) @@ -748,6 +756,11 @@ support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601 chipset.</para> + <para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports + the VIA Networking Technologies + VT6122 gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY, + has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para> <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver @@ -1063,11 +1076,12 @@ The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port and several sound cards, has been removed. More details can be found in related manual pages: - sound(4), &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;, - &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;, - &man.snd.es137x.4;, and &man.snd.solo.4;.</para> + &man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;, + &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;, + &man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;, + &man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para> - <para>The sound(4) (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read + <para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting of default values for mixer channels.</para> </sect3> @@ -1364,6 +1378,11 @@ This makes them also mostly un-overrideable in sub-makes except on the sub-make's command line.</para> + <para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL + utility to compress filesystem images for use with + <literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module, + has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.nearbyint.3; and &man.nearbyintf.3; C99 functions have been implemented.</para> |