From d4f9c55089cd4d971f78320eb5619fce2304720a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:53:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes: DDB show mount added, sparc64 US III support, DRM r600/r700, ae(4) WoL support, hardware MAC stats: cxgb(4), msk(4), nfe(4), re(4) hw.re.prefer_iomap, sis(4) VLAN tagging bugfix, txp(4) update, TCP MD5 signature option for IPv6, gpart(8) updated; APM and EBR scheme support, mpt(4) in GENERIC on sparc64, vfs.nfs.prime_access_cache for NFSv3, ncal(1) multibyte support, csup CVSMode support, du(1) -A and -B option added, makefs(8) added, and mergemaster(8) -F option added. Approved by: re (implicit) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/7.2@191602 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 92 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 86 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 84ba0cdf..5b5c2847 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ Kernel Changes + The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now supports a + show mount subcommand. + The &os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for process execution. @@ -305,6 +308,9 @@ Hardware Support + The &os; now supports Ultra SPARC III + (Cheetah) family. + The &man.acpi.4; subsystem now supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable debug.batt.batt_sleep_ms. On some laptops with smart batteries, enabling battery @@ -353,9 +359,9 @@ The DRM, a kernel module named Direct Rendering Manager that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients, - has been updated. Support for AMD/ATI r500 and IGP based - chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has been - improved. + has been updated. Support for AMD/ATI r500, r600, r700, + and IGP based 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 @@ -384,6 +390,9 @@ Network Interface Support + The &man.ae.4; driver now supports WoL + (Wake on LAN). + The &man.ale.4; driver are now included in the GENERIC kernel. @@ -398,6 +407,9 @@ The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211 PHY. + The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports hardware MAC + statistics. + The &man.fxp.4; driver has been improved. Changes include: @@ -442,19 +454,34 @@ The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved. An issue which makes it hang up in a certain condition has been - fixed. + fixed. A hardware MAC statistics support has been added + and users can get the information via sysctl variables + named + dev.msk.N.stats. The &man.mxge.4; driver now supports some newer revisions and 10GBASE-LRM and 10GBASE-Twinax media types. + The &man.nfe.4; driver now supports hardware MAC + statistics. + The &man.re.4; driver has been improved. It now - detects the link status. + detects the link status. A new loader tunable + hw.re.prefer_iomap to disable memory + register mapping. This tunable is 0 + for all controllers except RTL8169SC family. The &man.rl.4; driver has been improved. It now detects the link status and a bug which prevents it from working on systems with more than 4GB memory has been fixed. + + A bug in &man.sis.4; on VLAN tagged frame handling has + been fixed. + + The &man.txp.4; driver has been updated to the latest + firmware. @@ -482,6 +509,10 @@ + 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;. @@ -527,7 +558,13 @@ A bug in the &man.ciss.4; driver which caused low max device openings count that has led - to poor performance has been fixed. + to poor performance has been fixed. + + The &man.gpart.8; utility has been updated. The APM + scheme now supports Tivo Series 1 partitions (read only), a + new EBR scheme to support Extended Boot Records has been + added, the BSD scheme now support bootcode, and bugs in PC98 + and VTOC8 scheme have been fixed. An issue in the &man.gvinum.8; with access permissions to underlying disks used by a gvinum plex has been fixed. @@ -539,6 +576,9 @@ and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock transfers. + The &man.mpt.4; driver is now in the + GENERIC kernel. + The &man.sdhci.4; driver has been added. This supports PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to SD Host Controller Specification. @@ -569,6 +609,17 @@ + The &os; NFS file system now supports a sysctl variable + vfs.nfs.prime_access_cache to determine + whether or not nfs_getattr() will use + 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 + default to maintain the previous behavior. + + The &os; UDF file system now supports 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 @@ -592,9 +643,16 @@ Point (NAP), Group Ad-hoc Network (GN) and Personal Area Network User (PANU) profiles. + The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports multibyte + characters. + The &man.config.8; utility now supports multiple makeoption lines. + The &man.csup.1; utility now supports CVSMode to fetch a + complete CVS repository. Note that the rsync transfer mode is + currently disabled. + The &man.dirname.1; utility now accepts multiple arguments in the same way that &man.basename.1; does. @@ -602,6 +660,21 @@ flag. When specified, the &man.du.1; counts a file with multiple hard links as multiple different files. + The &man.du.1; utility now supports an flag + to display the apparent size instead of the disk usage. This can be + helpful when operating on compressed volumes or sparse files. + + The &man.du.1; utility now supports a option to + calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is + different from the , + options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an + estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy would + require on a filesystem with the given + blocksize. Unless in + mode, blocksize + is rounded up to the next multiple of 512. + The &man.dumpfs.8; utility now supports an flag, which causes it to list all free fragments in the file system by fragment (block) number. This @@ -640,6 +713,13 @@ flag is specified and the file does not exist, the &man.ln.1; will put a warning message. + The &man.makefs.8; utility to create a file system image + from a directory tree has been added. + + The &man.mergemaster.8; utility now supports an + option to automatically install files that + differ only in version control ID strings. + The &man.netstat.1; utility now reports &man.unix.4; sockets listen queue statistics when an flag. -- 2.42.0