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author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-29 06:52:04 +0000 |
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committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-29 06:52:04 +0000 |
commit | a54b5e92646d4933186e9413a2d04124fe003f6c (patch) | |
tree | 09318cbd5d6a6b60ab2a160449fab229946a0981 | |
parent | 38f33e47a06ab71a155d2b0af38b61721b00c872 (diff) |
- Updare release notes:
currently jail+cpuset allows superuser inside the jail to
change the CPU bindings,
atkbd(4) + kbdmux(4) duplicated/missing chars issue on MP systems fixed,
ULE machdep.hyperthreading_enabled support,
bce(4) update,
cxgb(4) update,
ixgbe(4) update,
a typo fix: s/<varname>/<replaceable>/,
ata(4) nForce MCP67/MCP73 support improved,
GEOM label UFS ID support,
GEOM journal rootfs support,
hptmv(4) updated,
twa(4) 64-bit DMA support,
fsck -C (check clean mode) support,
getaddrinfo(3) SCTP support,
make(1) -p, -Q, ${.MAKE.JOB.PREFIX}, ${.MAKE.PID} added, and
mount(8) -o mountprog=/foo added.
- Various grammer and order fixes.
Approved by: re (implicit)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/releng/7.2/; revision=191647
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 106 |
1 files changed, 56 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index cea4d46e4f65..c425e60172ae 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>A &man.jail.8; can start with a specific route + FIB now.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>A <literal>show jails</literal> subcommand in &man.ddb.8; has been added.</para> </listitem> @@ -270,22 +275,22 @@ routine finishes executing.</para> <para>Types of variables used to track amount of allocated - System V shared memory from <literal>int</literal> to - <literal>size_t</literal>. This makes it possible to use more - than 2 GB shared memory segments on 64-bit architectures. - Please note the new BUGS section in &man.shmctl.2; and - <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename> for limitations of this - temporal solution.</para> + System V shared memory have been changed from + <literal>int</literal> to <literal>size_t</literal>. This + makes it possible to use more than 2 GB shared memory segments + on 64-bit architectures. Please note the new BUGS section in + &man.shmctl.2; and <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename> for + limitations of this temporal solution.</para> <para>The &os; 32-bit system call translation layer now supports installing 32-bit system calls for <literal>VFS_AIO</literal>.</para> <para arch="amd64,i386">The &os; virtual memory subsystem now - supports Superpages. The Superpages is a feature in modern - CPUs that enables each entry in the TLB (translation lookaside - buffer) to map a large physical memory region into a virtual - address space. This provides possible memory savings for + supports Superpages. The Superpages is a feature that enables + each entry in the TLB (translation lookaside buffer) to map a + large physical memory region into a virtual address space in + modern CPUs. This provides possible memory savings for applications that share large amounts of memory between the address spaces and performance improvements due to fewer TLB misses.</para> @@ -298,7 +303,7 @@ PXE by pressing F6 key on some supported BIOSes.</para> <para>The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options - via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot.</para> + from network boot via &man.kenv.2; variables.</para> <para>A bug in the &man.loader.8; has been fixed. Now the following line works as expected:</para> @@ -327,13 +332,13 @@ <para>The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special device <filename>/dev/cpuctl</filename> as an interface to - the system CPU and functionality to retrieve CPUID - information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR) and - perform CPU firmware updates.</para> + the system CPU has been added. The functionality includes + to retrieve CPUID information, read/write machine specific + registers (MSR), and perform CPU firmware updates.</para> - <para>The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports a + <para>The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports an <varname>hw.est.msr_info</varname> loader tunable. When - this set to <literal>1</literal>, it attempts to build a + this is set to <literal>1</literal>, it attempts to build a simple list containing just the high and low frequencies if it cannot obtain a frequency list from either ACPI or the static tables. This is disabled by default.</para> @@ -359,14 +364,14 @@ Fireplane/Safari to PCI 2.1 and Tomatillo JBus to PCI 2.2 bridges has been added.</para> - <para>A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as - MPSAFE now.</para> - <para>The &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler now supports a loader tunable <varname>machdep.hyperthreading_enabled</varname> as the &man.sched.4bsd.4; does. Note that it cannot be modified at run-time.</para> + <para>A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as + MPSAFE now.</para> + <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> @@ -409,7 +414,7 @@ <para>The &man.ae.4; driver now supports WoL (Wake on LAN).</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.ale.4; driver are now + <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.ale.4; driver is now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> @@ -417,7 +422,7 @@ has been updated to the open source version.</para> <para>The &man.axe.4; driver has been improved in - performance by eliminating extra context switch and now + performance by eliminating extra context switches and now supports Apple USB Ethernet adapter.</para> <para>The &man.bce.4; driver's firmware has been updated to @@ -435,7 +440,7 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>The checksum offload feature can be controlled by - &man.ifconfig.8;.</para> + &man.ifconfig.8; now.</para> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -452,7 +457,7 @@ <para>WoL (Wake on LAN) support for 82550, 82551, 82558, and 82559-based controllers has been added. Note that ICH based controllers are treated as 82559, and 82557, - earlier revision of 82558, and 82559ER have no WOL + earlier revision of 82558, and 82559ER have no WoL capability.</para> </listitem> @@ -465,9 +470,9 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a tunable - <varname>hw.igb.ave_latency</varname> from working has - been fixed.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a loader + tunable <varname>hw.igb.ave_latency</varname> from working + has been fixed.</para> <para>A bug in &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version 1.7.4.</para> @@ -542,20 +547,17 @@ </listitem> </orderedlist> - <para>The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has - been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for - IPv4.</para> - <para>This also changes the semantics of selecting the IP for processes within a &man.jail.8; as it now uses the same logic as outside the &man.jail.8;.</para> - <para>The &man.jail.8; subsystem now supports start with a - specific route FIB.</para> + <para>The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has + been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for + IPv4.</para> <para>The &man.ng.netflow.4; Netgraph node now supports ability to generate egress netflow instead or in addition to - ingress. A <literal>NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</literal> control + ingress. An <literal>NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</literal> control message has been added to control the new functionality.</para> <para>The &man.tap.4;, Ethernet tunnel software network @@ -615,7 +617,7 @@ controllers.</para> <para>The &man.gjournal.8; GEOM class now supports the root - filesystem. Previously, an unclean shutdown would make it + file system. Previously, an unclean shutdown would make it impossible to mount root file system at boot.</para> <para>The &man.gpart.8; utility has been updated. The APM @@ -678,18 +680,18 @@ an ACCESS RPC to prime the access cache instead of a simple GETATTR RPC. This is because on many NFS servers an ACCESS RPC is much more expensive to service than a GETATTR RPC for - files in a NFSv3 mount. The sysctl variables is enabled by + files in an NFSv3 mount. The sysctl variable is enabled by default to maintain the previous behavior.</para> - <para>The &os; UDF file system now supports fifo.</para> + <para>The &os; UDF file system now supports a fifo.</para> <para>The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups in &man.VFS.9; subsystem has been improved. This is disabled by default. Setting a sysctl variable <varname>vfs.lookup_shared</varname> to <literal>1</literal> enables it for better performance. Note that the - <literal>LOOKUP_SHARED</literal> equivalent to the sysctl - variable kernel option has been removed.</para> + <literal>LOOKUP_SHARED</literal> kernel option equivalent to + the sysctl variable has been removed.</para> </sect3> </sect2> @@ -730,10 +732,10 @@ <para>The &man.du.1; utility now supports a <option>-B <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable></option> option to calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is - different from the <option>-k</option>, <option>-m</option> + different from the <option>-k</option> or <option>-m</option> options or setting <varname>BLOCKSIZE</varname> and gives an estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy would - require on a filesystem with the given + require on a file system with the given <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable>. Unless in <option>-A</option> mode, <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable> is rounded up to the next multiple of 512.</para> @@ -742,14 +744,14 @@ <option>-f</option> flag, which causes it to list all free fragments in the file system by fragment (block) number. This new mode does the necessary arithmetic to generate absolute - fragment numbers rather than than the cg-relative numbers - printed in the default mode.</para> + fragment numbers rather than the cg-relative numbers printed + in the default mode.</para> <para>If <option>-f</option> is passed once, contiguous fragment - ranges are collapsed into an X-Y format as free block lists are - currently printed in regular dumpfs output, but if specified twice, - all block numbers are printed individually, allowing both compact - and more script-friendly representation.</para> + ranges are collapsed into an X-Y format as free block lists + are currently printed in regular dumpfs output. If specified + twice, all block numbers are printed individually, allowing + both compact and more script-friendly representation.</para> <para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an <option>-i</option> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP @@ -766,10 +768,10 @@ does full checks.</para> <para>The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a - <option>-D</option> flag for damaged recovery mode, which - will enable certain aggressive operations that can make + <option>-D</option> flag for damaged recovery mode, which will + enable certain aggressive operations that can make &man.fsck.8; to survive with file systems that has very - serious data damage, which is an useful last resort when on + serious data damage. This is an useful last resort when on disk data damage is very serious and causes &man.fsck.8; to crash otherwise.</para> @@ -825,7 +827,7 @@ <para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now reports &man.unix.4; sockets listen queue statistics when an <option>-L</option> - flag.</para> + flag is specified.</para> <para>A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. It crashed with the following options in the previous @@ -864,11 +866,13 @@ zombie process when a password or default shell is changed has been fixed.</para> +<!-- <sect3 id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> <para></para> </sect3> +--> </sect2> <sect2 id="contrib"> @@ -904,11 +908,13 @@ role="package">x11/kde4</filename>).</para> </sect2> +<!-- <sect2 id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> <para></para> </sect2> +--> </sect1> <sect1 id="upgrade"> |