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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 fd15829..1d1f938 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -434,6 +434,14 @@ <para>The &man.txp.4; driver has been added to support NICs based on the 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) chipset. &merged;</para> + + <para arch="i386">The &man.bge.4; driver has been added to + support the Broadcom BCM570x family of Gigabit Ethernet + controllers, including the 3Com 3c996-T, the SysKonnect SK-9D21 + and SK-9D41, and the built-in Gigabit Ethernet NICs on Dell + PowerEdge 2550 servers. TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames + and VLAN tag insertion/stripping are supported, as well as + interrupt moderation.</para> </sect3> <sect3> @@ -454,6 +462,14 @@ and demultiplexing packets over multiple links has been added. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.ng.gif.4; and &man.ng.gif.demux.4; netgraph + nodes, for operating on &man.gif.4; devices, have been + added.</para> + + <para>The &man.ng.ip.input.4; netgraph node, for queueing IP + packets into the main IP input processing code, has been + added.</para> + <para arch="alpha">SLIP has been removed from the <filename>mfsroot</filename> floppy image.</para> @@ -1526,6 +1542,12 @@ &man.tftp.1; and &man.tftpd.8; can now transfer files larger than 65535 blocks. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.tftpd.8; now supports RFC 2349 (TFTP Timeout Interval + and Transfer Size Options); this feature is required by some + firmware like EFI boot managers (at least on HP i2000 Itanium + servers) in order to boot an image using + <application>TFTP</application>.</para> + <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-g</option> parameter to select custom text geometry in the <literal>VESA_800x600</literal> raster text mode. &merged;</para> |
