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diff --git a/release/texts/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/RELNOTES.TXT new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d50346 --- /dev/null +++ b/release/texts/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -0,0 +1,514 @@ + RELEASE NOTES + FreeBSD Release 3.0-SNAP + +This is a 3.0-CURRENT release SNAPshot of FreeBSD, currently +on its way to a follow-on release for 3.0 which was released +on October 16th, 1998. + +Any installation failures or crashes should be reported by using the +send-pr command (those preferring a WEB based interface can also see +http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html). + +For information about FreeBSD and the layout of the 3.0-RELEASE +directory (especially if you're installing from floppies!), see +ABOUT.TXT. For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and +HARDWARE.TXT files. + +For the latest of these 3.0-current snapshots, you should always see: + + ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD + +If you wish to get the latest post-3.0-RELEASE technology. + +Table of contents: +------------------ +1. What's new since 3.0-RELEASE + 1.1 KERNEL CHANGES + 1.2 SECURITY FIXES + 1.3 USERLAND CHANGES + +2. Supported Configurations + 2.1 Disk Controllers + 2.2 Ethernet cards + 2.3 ATM + 2.4 Misc + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD + 3.1 FTP/Mail + 3.2 CDROM + +4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD + +5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code +6. Acknowledgements + + +1. What's new since 3.0-RELEASE +--------------------------------- +All changes described here are unique to the 3.0 branch unless +specifically marked as [MERGED] features. + +1.1. KERNEL CHANGES +------------------- + +1.2. SECURITY FIXES +------------------- + +1.3. USERLAND CHANGES +--------------------- + +2. Supported Configurations +--------------------------- +FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus +based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the +386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive +configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is +also provided. + +What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with +FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet +received confirmation of this. + + +2.1. Disk Controllers +--------------------- +WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) +WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) +IDE +ATA + +Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. +Adaptec 274X/284X/2920/2940/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series +EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers. +Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers. + +AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models). + +Buslogic 545S & 545c +Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller +Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. +Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller +Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller + +DPT SCSI/RAID controllers (most variants). + +SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI +controllers: + ASUS SC-200 + Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) + NCR cards (all) + Symbios cards (all) + Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F + Tyan S1365 + + +QLogic SCSI and Fibre Channel controllers. + +DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. + +With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for +SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, +tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor +target devices and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands +are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW +writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. + +The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: +(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and + SoundBlaster SCSI) +(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary + interface (562/563 models) +(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) +(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface + +SCSI TAPE SUPPORT: + + The CAM SCSI tape driver doesn't yet handle older (and many times broken) + tape drives very well. If you've got an older SCSI-1 tape drive, like an + Exabyte 8200 or older QIC-type tape drive, it may not work properly with + the CAM tape driver. This is obviously a known problem, and we're + working on it. + + Newer tape drives that are mostly SCSI-2 compliant should work fine. + e.g., DAT (DDS-1, 2 and 3), DLT, and newer Exabyte 8mm drives should + work fine. + + If you want to find out if your particular tape drive is supported, the + best way to find out is to try it! + +The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are +NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem: + + Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the + AMD 53c974 as well). + + NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. + + UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. + + Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. + + Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. + + WD7000 SCSI controller. + + Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) + Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers + Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x + and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. + + [ Note: There is work-in-progress to port the AIC-6260/6360 and + UltraStor drivers to the new CAM SCSI framework, but no estimates on + when or if they will be completed. ] + +Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware: + + Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight) + + (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) + +2.2. Ethernet cards +------------------- +Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards + +AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) + +SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, +WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT +based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II. + +RealTek 8129/8139 fast ethernet NICs including the following: + Allied Telesyn AT2550 + Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139) + NDC Communications NE100TX-E + OvisLink LEF-8129TX + OvisLink LEF-8139TX + Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100 + KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet + +Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following: + Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port + Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP + Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC + Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP + +DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) +DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) +DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) +DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs + +Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A + +HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). + +Intel EtherExpress 16 +Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 +Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet + +Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) +Isolink 4110 (8 bit) + +Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. + +3Com 3C501 cards + +3Com 3C503 Etherlink II + +3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ + +3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP + +3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B PCI and EISA +(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL + +Toshiba ethernet cards + +Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including: + IBM Etherjet ISA + +PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also +supported. + +Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're +still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any +takers? + +2.3 ATM +------- + + o ATM Host Interfaces + - FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters + - Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters + + o ATM Signalling Protocols + - The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol + - The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol + - The ATM Forum ILMI address registration + - FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol + - Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs) + + o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model + - RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5" + - RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" + - RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5" + - RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM" + - RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" + - RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)" + - Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt, + "A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP" + + o ATM Sockets interface + +2.4. Misc +--------- + +AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. +ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. + +Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) +Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) +Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) +Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) + +Comtrol Rocketport card. + +Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. + +STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. + +SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. +SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards. + +Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, +ONboard 4/16 and Brumby. + +Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound +and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver) + +Most ISA audio codecs manufactured by Crystal Semiconductors, OPTi, Creative +Labs, Avance, Yamaha and ENSONIQ. (pcm driver) + +Connectix QuickCam +Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber +Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber +Cortex1 frame grabber +Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI) +STB TV PCI +Intel Smart Video Recorder III +Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip. + +HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives. + +PS/2 mice + +Standard PC Joystick + +X-10 power controllers + +GPIB and Transputer drivers. + +Genius and Mustek hand scanners. + +Xilinx XC6200 based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with +the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com) + +Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver. + +FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD +-------------------- + +You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: + +3.1. FTP/Mail +------------- + +You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from +`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. + +For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file +MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in +networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! +Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to +become an official mirror site. + +If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your +only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to +`ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message +to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. +Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of +megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute +LAST resort! + + +3.2. CDROM +---------- + +FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE and 2.2.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: + + Walnut Creek CDROM + 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D + Concord CA 94520 + 1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX) + +Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com. +Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from: + + ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog + +Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. +FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs, when available, are $39.95 or $14.95 with a +FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely +separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as +they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is +shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further +obligation. + +Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico +and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American +Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United +States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. + +Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an +unconditional return policy. + + +4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD +---------------------------------------------- + +If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, most likely +it's 2.2.x or 2.1.x (in some lesser number of cases) and some of the +following issues may affect you, depending of course on your chosen +method of upgrading. There are two popular ways of upgrading +FreeBSD distributions: + + o Using sources, via /usr/src + o Using sysinstall's (binary) upgrade option. + +In the case of using sources, there are simply two targets you need to +be aware of: The standard ``world'' target, which will upgrade a 2.x +system to 3.0, or the ``aout-to-elf'' target, which will both upgrade +and convert the system to ELF binary format. +In the case of using the binary upgrade option, the system will go +straight to 3.0/ELF but also populate the /<basepath>/lib/aout +directories for backwards compatibility with older binaries. + +In either case, going to ELF will mean that you'll have somewhat +smaller binaries and access to a lot more compiler goodies which have +been already been ported to other ELF environments (our older and +somewhat crufty a.out format being largely unsupported by most other +software projects), but on the downside you'll also have access to far +fewer ports and packages since many of those have not been adapted to +ELF yet. This will occur in time, but those who wish to retain access +to the greatest number of packages and 3rd-party binaries should +probably stick with a.out. + +The kernel is also still in a.out format at this time so that older +LKMs and library interfaces can continue to work, but a full +transition to ELF will occur at some point after 3.0-RELEASE. Those +wishing to generate dynamic kernel components should therefore use the +newer KLD mechanism rather than the older LKM format - the LKM format +is not long for this world and will soon be unsupported! + +[ other important upgrading notes should go here] + + +5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. +----------------------------------------------------------- +Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always +valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find +(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!). + +The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with +Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI +script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports +will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can +be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon +as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site +in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports +and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to +watch out for. + +If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to +submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: + + freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org + +Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move +even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use +this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem +reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether +the problem might have already been fixed since. + + +Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to: + + freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org + + +Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have +extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired +enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To +contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send +mail to: + + freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org + + +Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* +amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and +are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you +may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: + + freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org + + +All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone wishing +to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword +`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This +will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing +archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at +special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo +and ask about them! + + +6. Acknowledgements +------------------- + +FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not +hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very +hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD +project staffers, please see: + + http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html + +or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: + + file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html + + +Special mention to: + + The donors listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/donors.html + + Justin M. Seger <jseger@freebsd.org> for almost single-handedly + converting the ports collection to ELF. + + Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org> and John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org> + for making FreeBSD/alpha happen and to the NetBSD project for + substantial indirect aid. + + Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org> for the new kernel module system + (with substantial aid from Doug Rabson). + + And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the + world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. + +We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! + + The FreeBSD Project |
