svn commit: r191647 -
releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 29 06:52:05 UTC 2009
Author: hrs
Date: Wed Apr 29 06:52:04 2009
New Revision: 191647
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191647
Log:
- 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/<varname>/<replaceable>/,
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)
Modified:
releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Apr 29 06:14:12 2009 (r191646)
+++ releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Apr 29 06:52:04 2009 (r191647)
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>A &man.jail.8; can start with a specific route
+ FIB now.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>A <literal>show jails</literal> subcommand in
&man.ddb.8; has been added.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -270,22 +275,22 @@
routine finishes executing.</para>
<para>Types of variables used to track amount of allocated
- System V shared memory from <literal>int</literal> to
- <literal>size_t</literal>. 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
- <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename> for limitations of this
- temporal solution.</para>
+ System V shared memory have been changed from
+ <literal>int</literal> to <literal>size_t</literal>. 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 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename> for
+ limitations of this temporal solution.</para>
<para>The &os; 32-bit system call translation layer now
supports installing 32-bit system calls for
<literal>VFS_AIO</literal>.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386">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.</para>
@@ -298,7 +303,7 @@
PXE by pressing F6 key on some supported BIOSes.</para>
<para>The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options
- via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot.</para>
+ from network boot via &man.kenv.2; variables.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.loader.8; has been fixed. Now the
following line works as expected:</para>
@@ -327,13 +332,13 @@
<para>The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special
device <filename>/dev/cpuctl</filename> as an interface to
- the system CPU and functionality to retrieve CPUID
- information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR) and
- perform CPU firmware updates.</para>
+ the system CPU has been added. The functionality includes
+ to retrieve CPUID information, read/write machine specific
+ registers (MSR), and perform CPU firmware updates.</para>
- <para>The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports a
+ <para>The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports an
<varname>hw.est.msr_info</varname> loader tunable. When
- this set to <literal>1</literal>, it attempts to build a
+ this is set to <literal>1</literal>, 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.</para>
@@ -359,14 +364,14 @@
Fireplane/Safari to PCI 2.1 and Tomatillo JBus to PCI 2.2
bridges has been added.</para>
- <para>A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as
- MPSAFE now.</para>
-
<para>The &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler now supports a loader
tunable <varname>machdep.hyperthreading_enabled</varname> as
the &man.sched.4bsd.4; does. Note that it cannot be
modified at run-time.</para>
+ <para>A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as
+ MPSAFE now.</para>
+
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -409,7 +414,7 @@
<para>The &man.ae.4; driver now supports WoL
(Wake on LAN).</para>
- <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.ale.4; driver are now
+ <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.ale.4; driver is now
included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
kernel.</para>
@@ -417,7 +422,7 @@
has been updated to the open source version.</para>
<para>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.</para>
<para>The &man.bce.4; driver's firmware has been updated to
@@ -435,7 +440,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The checksum offload feature can be controlled by
- &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+ &man.ifconfig.8; now.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -452,7 +457,7 @@
<para>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.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -465,9 +470,9 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a tunable
- <varname>hw.igb.ave_latency</varname> from working has
- been fixed.</para>
+ <para>A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a loader
+ tunable <varname>hw.igb.ave_latency</varname> from working
+ has been fixed.</para>
<para>A bug in &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to
version 1.7.4.</para>
@@ -542,20 +547,17 @@
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
- <para>The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has
- been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for
- IPv4.</para>
-
<para>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;.</para>
- <para>The &man.jail.8; subsystem now supports start with a
- specific route FIB.</para>
+ <para>The TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) for IPv6 has
+ been implemented in the same way it has been implemented for
+ IPv4.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.netflow.4; Netgraph node now supports
ability to generate egress netflow instead or in addition to
- ingress. A <literal>NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</literal> control
+ ingress. An <literal>NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</literal> control
message has been added to control the new functionality.</para>
<para>The &man.tap.4;, Ethernet tunnel software network
@@ -615,7 +617,7 @@
controllers.</para>
<para>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.</para>
<para>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.</para>
- <para>The &os; UDF file system now supports fifo.</para>
+ <para>The &os; UDF file system now supports a fifo.</para>
<para>The shared vnode locking for pathname lookups in
&man.VFS.9; subsystem has been improved. This is disabled
by default. Setting a sysctl variable
<varname>vfs.lookup_shared</varname> to <literal>1</literal>
enables it for better performance. Note that the
- <literal>LOOKUP_SHARED</literal> equivalent to the sysctl
- variable kernel option has been removed.</para>
+ <literal>LOOKUP_SHARED</literal> kernel option equivalent to
+ the sysctl variable has been removed.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -730,10 +732,10 @@
<para>The &man.du.1; utility now supports a <option>-B
<replaceable>blocksize</replaceable></option> option to
calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is
- different from the <option>-k</option>, <option>-m</option>
+ different from the <option>-k</option> or <option>-m</option>
options or setting <varname>BLOCKSIZE</varname> 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
<replaceable>blocksize</replaceable>. Unless in
<option>-A</option> mode, <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable>
is rounded up to the next multiple of 512.</para>
@@ -742,14 +744,14 @@
<option>-f</option> 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.</para>
+ fragment numbers rather than the cg-relative numbers printed
+ in the default mode.</para>
<para>If <option>-f</option> 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.</para>
+ 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.</para>
<para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an
<option>-i</option> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP
@@ -766,10 +768,10 @@
does full checks.</para>
<para>The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a
- <option>-D</option> flag for damaged recovery mode, which
- will enable certain aggressive operations that can make
+ <option>-D</option> 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.</para>
@@ -825,7 +827,7 @@
<para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now reports &man.unix.4;
sockets listen queue statistics when an <option>-L</option>
- flag.</para>
+ flag is specified.</para>
<para>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.</para>
+<!--
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
<para></para>
</sect3>
+-->
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
@@ -904,11 +908,13 @@
role="package">x11/kde4</filename>).</para>
</sect2>
+<!--
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para></para>
</sect2>
+-->
</sect1>
<sect1 id="upgrade">
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