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author | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-10-31 16:58:43 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-10-31 16:58:43 +0000 |
commit | 2a8a98c0586ea15cf0b7b9d4ba4f4cf6109f8c42 (patch) | |
tree | 0e981596c3fea019140e73ed6af4abf632841f55 /release | |
parent | 29bc2c483386c47c2fc7094e7f4e1cfd0a13a21b (diff) | |
download | src-2a8a98c0586ea15cf0b7b9d4ba4f4cf6109f8c42.tar.gz src-2a8a98c0586ea15cf0b7b9d4ba4f4cf6109f8c42.zip |
A grab bag of new (but overdue) release note items: dcons(4) and
friends, Pentium 4 and related workarounds, some MPSAFE network
drivers, IPv6 supports RFC 3542 (Advanced Sockets API), ifconfig(8)
staticarp, libkse default threading library for ia64.
Updates: New DRM import.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=121813
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 37 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 37 |
2 files changed, 68 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 57c6f5fcca3d..b75942c0c098 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -184,9 +184,15 @@ &merged;</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">The DRM kernel modules have been updated from - DRI CVS as of 9 September 2003. Among other changes, this - import includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730 - driver.</para> + DRI CVS as of 23 October 2003. Among other changes, this + change includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730 + driver and mostly-complete SMPng locking.</para> + + <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has + been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be + accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A + &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; + devices.</para> <para>A multi-byte character set conversion method is now supported by the <literal>LIBICONV</literal> kernel option.</para> @@ -248,6 +254,11 @@ <para arch="i386,pc98">Floating point emulation in the kernel has been removed.</para> + <para arch="i386">Problems with some Pentium 4 CPUs and some older + Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs have been worked around. + Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or + unexplained crashes.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -315,6 +326,13 @@ <para>The xe driver now supports CE2, CEM28, and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several bugs in the driver has been fixed.</para> + + <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt + handlers marked as MPSAFE, meaning they can run without + the Giant lock. Among the drivers so converted are: + &man.ath.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.ep.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.sn.4;, + &man.wi.4;, and &man.sis.4;.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> @@ -401,6 +419,12 @@ the Linux BlueZ SDP package, has been added.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> + + <para>Support for the IPv6 Advanced Sockets API now conforms to + RFC 3542 (also known as RFC 2292bis), rather than RFC 2292. + Applications using this API have been updated + accordingly.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -508,6 +532,10 @@ Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been added.</para> + <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports a <option>staticarp</option> + option for an interface, which disables the sending of ARP + requests for that interface.</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>list</literal> and <literal>show</literal> command now support ranges of rule numbers. &merged;</para> @@ -532,6 +560,9 @@ support working with loadable character set conversion tables in the kernel.</para> + <para arch="ia64"><filename>libkse</filename> is now the default + threading library on &os;/ia64.</para> + <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 threading library is now built by default.</para> 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 57c6f5fcca3d..b75942c0c098 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -184,9 +184,15 @@ &merged;</para> <para arch="i386,pc98">The DRM kernel modules have been updated from - DRI CVS as of 9 September 2003. Among other changes, this - import includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730 - driver.</para> + DRI CVS as of 23 October 2003. Among other changes, this + change includes a newly-ported SiS 300/305/540/630/730 + driver and mostly-complete SMPng locking.</para> + + <para>The &man.dcons.4; <quote>dumb console</quote> driver has + been added to provide a local and remote console. It can be + accessed over Firewire using the &man.dcons.crom.4; driver. A + &man.dconschat.8; utility provides user access to &man.dcons.4; + devices.</para> <para>A multi-byte character set conversion method is now supported by the <literal>LIBICONV</literal> kernel option.</para> @@ -248,6 +254,11 @@ <para arch="i386,pc98">Floating point emulation in the kernel has been removed.</para> + <para arch="i386">Problems with some Pentium 4 CPUs and some older + Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs have been worked around. + Typically these manifested themselves as memory corruption or + unexplained crashes.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -315,6 +326,13 @@ <para>The xe driver now supports CE2, CEM28, and CEM33 cards, and &man.multicast.4; datagram. Also several bugs in the driver has been fixed.</para> + + <para>A number of network drivers have had their interrupt + handlers marked as MPSAFE, meaning they can run without + the Giant lock. Among the drivers so converted are: + &man.ath.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.ep.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.sn.4;, + &man.wi.4;, and &man.sis.4;.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> @@ -401,6 +419,12 @@ the Linux BlueZ SDP package, has been added.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> + + <para>Support for the IPv6 Advanced Sockets API now conforms to + RFC 3542 (also known as RFC 2292bis), rather than RFC 2292. + Applications using this API have been updated + accordingly.</para> + </sect3> <sect3 id="disks"> @@ -508,6 +532,10 @@ Source Language (ASL) and ACPI Machine language (AML), has been added.</para> + <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now supports a <option>staticarp</option> + option for an interface, which disables the sending of ARP + requests for that interface.</para> + <para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>list</literal> and <literal>show</literal> command now support ranges of rule numbers. &merged;</para> @@ -532,6 +560,9 @@ support working with loadable character set conversion tables in the kernel.</para> + <para arch="ia64"><filename>libkse</filename> is now the default + threading library on &os;/ia64.</para> + <para arch="i386,ia64">The <filename>libthr</filename> 1:1 threading library is now built by default.</para> |