From 79d6747ba50353e7a7725713bbb960fa82f249ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:10:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update release note: type of shm_segsz in struct shmid_ds to size_t from int, AltiVec support on powerpc, INTx disabled when MSI/MSIX enabled, sysctl leaf node now has an MPSAFE flag, hw.drm.msi tunable added, ale(4) in GENERIC on amd64 and i386, ata-raid(4) initial support for DDF metadata, cam(4) kern.cam.cd.retry_count sysctl, ciss(4) max device openings count fix, btpand(8) for NAP, GN, PANU profiles of bluetooth added, and improve description of the fetch(1) If-Modified-Since support. Approved by: re (implicit) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/7.2@191523 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 59 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index b725bd67..708af7b7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -265,6 +265,14 @@ KTR_CALLOUT class to note when a callout 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. + The &os; 32-bit system call translation layer now supports installing 32-bit system calls for VFS_AIO. @@ -307,6 +315,9 @@ The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver now supports Asus A8Sr notebooks. + Support for the AltiVec, a floating point + and integer SIMD instruction set has been added. + The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special device /dev/cpuctl as an interface to the system CPU and functionality to retrieve CPUID @@ -327,6 +338,13 @@ added to force this behavior by setting it to non-zero. + In the &man.pci.4; subsystem INTx is now disabled when + MSI/MSIX is enabled. This change fixes interrupt storm + related issues. + + A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as + MPSAFE now. + Multimedia Support @@ -339,6 +357,10 @@ chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has been improved. + A new loader tunable hw.drm.msi + which controls if DRM uses MSI or not. This is set to + 1 (enabled) by default. + The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex 1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed because this was broken for a long time. @@ -362,6 +384,13 @@ Network Interface Support + The &man.ale.4; driver are now + included in the GENERIC + kernel. + + The &man.ath.hal.4;, Atheros Hardware Access Layer, + 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 supports Apple USB Ethernet adapter. @@ -481,6 +510,25 @@ The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121. + The &man.ataraid.4; driver now has an initial support + for DDF metadata found on Adaptec HostRAID controllers. + Note that spares and rebuilds are not supported yet. + + The &man.cam.4; SCSI subsystem now supports a sysctl + variable kern.cam.cd.retry_count. This + controls the number of retries for the CD media. When + trying to read scratched or damaged CDs and DVDs, the + default mechanism is sub-optimal, and programs like + ddrescue do much better if you + turn off the retries entirely since their algorithms do it + by themselves. This value is set to 4 + (for a total 5 attempts) by default. Setting to 0 turns off + all retry attempts. + + A bug in the &man.ciss.4; driver which caused low + max device openings count that has led + to poor performance has been fixed. + An issue in the &man.gvinum.8; with access permissions to underlying disks used by a gvinum plex has been fixed. If the plex is a raid5 plex and is being written to, parity data might @@ -539,6 +587,11 @@ invoked from /rescue, has been fixed. + The &man.btpand.8; daemon from NetBSD has been added. + This daemon provides support for Bluetooth Network Access + Point (NAP), Group Ad-hoc Network (GN) and Personal Area + Network User (PANU) profiles. + The &man.config.8; utility now supports multiple makeoption lines. @@ -564,7 +617,11 @@ The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP - request. + 1.1 request. If specified it will cause the file to be + downloaded only if it is more recent than the mtime of the + file. Also, libfetch now accepts + the mtime in the url structure and a flag to indicate when + this behavior is desired. The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a flag for damaged recovery mode, which -- 2.45.0