From 11a5c5864b71e8b54d5d02df51ddaf40d0b83e72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:03:36 +0000 Subject: New release notes: acct(2) appends to files, basename(1) -a/-s, GDB 5.2. Updated release notes: em(4) update, ACPI CA 20020611, mountd(8)/nfsd(8) moved to /usr/sbin, vidcontrol(1) -S. MFCs noted: dump(8) -S. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 781881f..3f176e8 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ Kernel Changes + &man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in + append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable + accounting to an append-only file. + The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756 chipset. &merged; @@ -672,8 +676,10 @@ module. The &man.em.4; driver has been added to - support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544 - Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports + support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545EM, + and 82546EB + Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver has VLAN + support, and also supports transmit/receive checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543 and 82544-based adapters. &merged; @@ -1471,7 +1477,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended (ACPI), a multi-vendor standard for configuration and power management, has been added. This functionality has been provided by the Intel ACPI Component - Architecture project, as of the ACPI CA 20020404 + Architecture project, as of the ACPI CA 20020611 snapshot. Some backward compatability for applications using the older APM standard has been provided. @@ -1937,6 +1943,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended The system &man.awk.1; now refers to BWK awk. + &man.basename.1; now accept and + flags, which allow it to perform the + &man.basename.3; function on multiple files. + + &man.biff.1; now accepts a argument to + enable bell notification of new mail (which does + not disturb the terminal contents as biff y + would). + &man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager installation and configuration utility, has been added. &merged; @@ -2083,7 +2098,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended backups. &merged; &man.dump.8; now supports a new flag to allow - it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit. + it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit. &merged; &man.edquota.8; now takes a option to allow limiting the prototype quota distribution (specified with @@ -2573,6 +2588,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended libss have been removed; they have been unused for quite some time. &merged; + &man.mountd.8; and &man.nfsd.8; have moved from + /sbin to /usr/sbin. + &man.moused.8; now takes a option to control mouse acceleration. &merged; @@ -3141,6 +3159,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended option to set the size of the history buffer. &merged; + &man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a to + allow the user to disable VTY switching. + The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between stripes. @@ -3284,6 +3305,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended GCC_OPTIONS, which can hold a set of default options for GCC. &merged; + gdb has been updated to a + snapshot of gdb 5.2 from 27 June + 2002. + GNATS has been updated to 3.113. &merged; 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 781881f..3f176e8 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ Kernel Changes + &man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in + append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable + accounting to an append-only file. + The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756 chipset. &merged; @@ -672,8 +676,10 @@ module. The &man.em.4; driver has been added to - support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, and 82544 - Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports + support NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545EM, + and 82546EB + Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. The driver has VLAN + support, and also supports transmit/receive checksum offload and jumbo frames on 82543 and 82544-based adapters. &merged; @@ -1471,7 +1477,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended (ACPI), a multi-vendor standard for configuration and power management, has been added. This functionality has been provided by the Intel ACPI Component - Architecture project, as of the ACPI CA 20020404 + Architecture project, as of the ACPI CA 20020611 snapshot. Some backward compatability for applications using the older APM standard has been provided. @@ -1937,6 +1943,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended The system &man.awk.1; now refers to BWK awk. + &man.basename.1; now accept and + flags, which allow it to perform the + &man.basename.3; function on multiple files. + + &man.biff.1; now accepts a argument to + enable bell notification of new mail (which does + not disturb the terminal contents as biff y + would). + &man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager installation and configuration utility, has been added. &merged; @@ -2083,7 +2098,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended backups. &merged; &man.dump.8; now supports a new flag to allow - it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit. + it to just print out the dump size estimates and exit. &merged; &man.edquota.8; now takes a option to allow limiting the prototype quota distribution (specified with @@ -2573,6 +2588,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended libss have been removed; they have been unused for quite some time. &merged; + &man.mountd.8; and &man.nfsd.8; have moved from + /sbin to /usr/sbin. + &man.moused.8; now takes a option to control mouse acceleration. &merged; @@ -3141,6 +3159,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended option to set the size of the history buffer. &merged; + &man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a to + allow the user to disable VTY switching. + The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between stripes. @@ -3284,6 +3305,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended GCC_OPTIONS, which can hold a set of default options for GCC. &merged; + gdb has been updated to a + snapshot of gdb 5.2 from 27 June + 2002. + GNATS has been updated to 3.113. &merged; -- cgit v1.1