From f2392f39a7cb9a2f4266e37aa825cf2b7e822050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:29:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes: amd64 KVA space to 6GB, variable reference in loader(8) script fixed, debug.batt.batt_sleep_ms added, snd_au88x0(4) removed, typo in igb(4) hw.igb.ave_latency fixed, gvinum plex access permission issue fixed, du(1) -l flag added, "netstat -m -N foo" issue fixed, and wc(1) -L flag added. Approved by: re (implicit) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/7.2@191515 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 48 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 47 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 ec41c635..ad0f32cd 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -208,7 +208,13 @@ Kernel Changes - &os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for process execution. + The &os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for + process execution. + + The &os; kernel virtual address space has + been increased to 6GB and the ceiling on the kmem map size + to 3.6GB. Note that the ceiling as a fraction of the kernel + map size rather than an absolute quantity. Boot Loader Changes @@ -219,11 +225,23 @@ The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot. + + A bug in the &man.loader.8; has been fixed. Now the + following line works as expected: + + loader_conf_files="foo bar ${variable}" Hardware Support + 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 + monitoring software causes keystrokes from &man.atkbd.4; to + be lost. This sysctl variable adds a delay in millisecond + to the status checking code as a workaround. + The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special device /dev/cpuctl as an interface to the system CPU and functionality to retrieve CPUID @@ -242,6 +260,10 @@ chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has been improved. + The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex + 1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed because this was + broken for a long time. + The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been updated. Changes include: multiple codec per HDA bus, multiple functional groups per codec, multiple audio devices per functional @@ -264,6 +286,10 @@ The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211 PHY. + A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a tunable + hw.igb.ave_latency from working has + been fixed. + The &man.jme.4; driver now supports newer JMicron JMC250/JMC260 revisions. @@ -290,6 +316,12 @@ The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121. + 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 + have to be read from the underlying disks, requiring them to be opened for + reading as well as writing. + The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; driver now support MMC and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock transfers. @@ -315,6 +347,10 @@ The &man.config.8; utility now supports multiple makeoption lines. + The &man.du.1; utility now supports an + flag. When specified, the &man.du.1; counts a file with + multiple hard links as multiple different files. + The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP request. @@ -331,6 +367,12 @@ messages for a NAT rule even when a flag is specified. + A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. It + crashed with the following options in the previous + versions: + + &prompt.user; netstat -m -N foo + The &man.powerd.8; program has been improved. Changes include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems and a new mode named as hiadaptive for AC-powered @@ -341,6 +383,10 @@ The &man.strndup.3; function has been added. + The &man.wc.1; utility now supports an + flag to output the number of characters in the longest input + line. + A bug in the &man.rpc.yppasswdd.8; program which leaves a zombie process when a password or default shell is changed has been fixed. -- 2.42.0