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author | Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-03-27 21:26:45 +0000 |
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committer | Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-03-27 21:26:45 +0000 |
commit | 9001f889055ca870a632ab9f62d1bf14d17a901c (patch) | |
tree | 45eb614661093efd5f00ab93267d004abde2a16b /release | |
parent | 36eab024671753d079c6a540a21d7971ffa2b108 (diff) | |
download | src-9001f889055ca870a632ab9f62d1bf14d17a901c.tar.gz src-9001f889055ca870a632ab9f62d1bf14d17a901c.zip |
New release notes:
- priv(9) KPI added
- ipw/iwi firmware in the base system
Updated release notes:
- OpenSSL updated to 0.9.8e
- GNOME updated to 2.8.0
- acpi_dock(4) and acpi_hpet MFC
- msk(4) MFC
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=167954
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 40 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index d7ea45a5dbdf..118eb7b9e590 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter.</para> + <para>&man.acpi.4; now has support for the HPET time counter. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the @@ -350,6 +350,13 @@ It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para> + <para>The &man.priv.9; kernel interface has been added. Its purpose + is checking the availability of privilege for threads and credentials. + Unlike the existing &man.suser.9; interface, &man.priv.9; exposes a + named privilege identifier to the privilege checking code, allowing + more complex policies regarding the granting of privilege to be + expressed.</para> + <para>The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> @@ -496,7 +503,7 @@ <para>An &man.acpi.dock.4; driver has been added to provide support for controlling laptop docking station functions via - ACPI.</para> + ACPI. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports passive cooling. &merged;</para> @@ -715,14 +722,31 @@ by defining <literal>NO_EM_FASTINTR</literal> kernel option for debugging purpose.</para> + <para>The firmware images needed by the &man.ipw.4; driver are now + part of the &os; base system. For the loaded firmware to work the + license at <filename>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE</filename> + must be agreed to and <literal>legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1</literal> + has to be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>. + Prior versions of the driver used the firmware image in the + <filename role="package">net/ipw-firmware-kmod</filename> + port/package or the + <filename role="package">net/ipw-firmware</filename> + port/package. &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.iwi.4; driver now supports big-endian architectures such as sparc64.</para> <para>A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to the - functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. This driver now - requires the firmware image in the + functionality of the &man.iwi.4; driver. &merged;</para> + + <para>The firmware images needed by the &man.iwi.4; driver are now + part of the &os; base system. For the loaded firmware to work the + license at <filename>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE</filename> + must be agreed to and <literal>legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1</literal> + has to be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>. + Prior versions of the driver used the firmware image in the <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware-kmod</filename> - port/package; prior versions of this driver used the + port/package or the <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename> port/package. &merged;</para> @@ -742,7 +766,7 @@ <para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been added. It supports network interfaces using the Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II - Gigabit Ethernet controller.</para> + Gigabit Ethernet controller. &merged;</para> <para>The &man.my.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para> @@ -1882,7 +1906,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> 4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged;</para> <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated from - 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.</para> + 0.9.7e to 0.9.8e.</para> <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from 5.2-20010512 to 5.6-20061217. ncurses now also has wide @@ -2073,7 +2097,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img"</programlisting> <para>The supported version of the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been - updated from 2.10.2 to 2.16.3. As a part of this update, the + updated from 2.10.2 to 2.18.0. As a part of this update, the default prefix for <application>GNOME</application> (and some related programs) has moved from <filename>/usr/X11R6</filename> |