From 1a712c3a43f4ef5b37e227faf479ff22735c1f19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:52:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - 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///, 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) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/7.2@191647 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 106 +++++++++--------- 1 file 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 cea4d46e..c425e601 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ next release. + + A &man.jail.8; can start with a specific route + FIB now. + + A show jails subcommand in &man.ddb.8; has been added. @@ -270,22 +275,22 @@ routine finishes executing. Types of variables used to track amount of allocated - System V shared memory from int to - size_t. 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 - /usr/src/UPDATING for limitations of this - temporal solution. + System V shared memory have been changed from + int to size_t. 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 /usr/src/UPDATING for + limitations of this temporal solution. The &os; 32-bit system call translation layer now supports installing 32-bit system calls for VFS_AIO. 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. @@ -298,7 +303,7 @@ PXE by pressing F6 key on some supported BIOSes. The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options - via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot. + from network boot via &man.kenv.2; variables. A bug in the &man.loader.8; has been fixed. Now the following line works as expected: @@ -327,13 +332,13 @@ The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special device /dev/cpuctl as an interface to - the system CPU and functionality to retrieve CPUID - information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR) and - perform CPU firmware updates. + the system CPU has been added. The functionality includes + to retrieve CPUID information, read/write machine specific + registers (MSR), and perform CPU firmware updates. - The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports a + The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports an hw.est.msr_info loader tunable. When - this set to 1, it attempts to build a + this is set to 1, 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. @@ -359,14 +364,14 @@ Fireplane/Safari to PCI 2.1 and Tomatillo JBus to PCI 2.2 bridges has been added. - A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as - MPSAFE now. - The &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler now supports a loader tunable machdep.hyperthreading_enabled as the &man.sched.4bsd.4; does. Note that it cannot be modified at run-time. + A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as + MPSAFE now. + Multimedia Support @@ -409,7 +414,7 @@ The &man.ae.4; driver now supports WoL (Wake on LAN). - The &man.ale.4; driver are now + The &man.ale.4; driver is now included in the GENERIC kernel. @@ -417,7 +422,7 @@ has been updated to the open source version. 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. The &man.bce.4; driver's firmware has been updated to @@ -435,7 +440,7 @@ The checksum offload feature can be controlled by - &man.ifconfig.8;. + &man.ifconfig.8; now. @@ -452,7 +457,7 @@ 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. @@ -465,9 +470,9 @@ - A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a tunable - hw.igb.ave_latency from working has - been fixed. + A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a loader + tunable hw.igb.ave_latency from working + has been fixed. A bug in &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version 1.7.4. @@ -542,20 +547,17 @@ - The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has - been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for - IPv4. - 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;. - The &man.jail.8; subsystem now supports start with a - specific route FIB. + The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has + been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for + IPv4. The &man.ng.netflow.4; Netgraph node now supports ability to generate egress netflow instead or in addition to - ingress. A NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG control + ingress. An NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG control message has been added to control the new functionality. The &man.tap.4;, Ethernet tunnel software network @@ -615,7 +617,7 @@ controllers. 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. 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. - The &os; UDF file system now supports fifo. + The &os; UDF file system now supports a fifo. The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups in &man.VFS.9; subsystem has been improved. This is disabled by default. Setting a sysctl variable vfs.lookup_shared to 1 enables it for better performance. Note that the - LOOKUP_SHARED equivalent to the sysctl - variable kernel option has been removed. + LOOKUP_SHARED kernel option equivalent to + the sysctl variable has been removed. @@ -730,10 +732,10 @@ The &man.du.1; utility now supports a option to calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is - different from the , + different from the or options or setting BLOCKSIZE 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 blocksize. Unless in mode, blocksize is rounded up to the next multiple of 512. @@ -742,14 +744,14 @@ 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. + fragment numbers rather than the cg-relative numbers printed + in the default mode. If 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. + 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. The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP @@ -766,10 +768,10 @@ does full checks. The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a - flag for damaged recovery mode, which - will enable certain aggressive operations that can make + 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. @@ -825,7 +827,7 @@ The &man.netstat.1; utility now reports &man.unix.4; sockets listen queue statistics when an - flag. + flag is specified. 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. + @@ -904,11 +908,13 @@ role="package">x11/kde4). + -- 2.42.0