svn commit: r191669 -
releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 29 17:50:49 UTC 2009
Author: hrs
Date: Wed Apr 29 17:50:48 2009
New Revision: 191669
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191669
Log:
Various wording/grammar fixes.
Suggested by: keramida
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 16:02:52 2009 (r191668)
+++ releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Apr 29 17:50:48 2009 (r191669)
@@ -279,29 +279,31 @@
<literal>KTR_CALLOUT</literal> class to note when a callout
routine finishes executing.</para>
- <para>Types of variables used to track amount of allocated
+ <para>Types of variables used to track the amount of allocated
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 temporary solution.</para>
+ makes it possible to use more than 2 GB of memory for 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
+ temporary solution.</para>
- <para>A &man.sysctl.3; leaf node has a flag to tag itself as
- MPSAFE now.</para>
+ <para>The &man.sysctl.3; leaf nodes have a flag to tag
+ themselves as MPSAFE now.</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 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. This is disabled by default and can be enabled by
+ supports <application>Superpages</application>. The
+ <application>Superpages</application> 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. This is disabled by default and can be enabled by
setting a loader tunable
<varname>vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled</varname> to
<literal>1</literal>.</para>
@@ -330,7 +332,7 @@
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="sparc64">The &os; now supports Ultra SPARC III
- (Cheetah) family.</para>
+ (Cheetah) processor family.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.4; subsystem now supports a &man.sysctl.8;
variable <varname>debug.batt.batt_sleep_ms</varname>. On
@@ -347,9 +349,10 @@
<para>The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special
device <filename>/dev/cpuctl</filename> as an interface to
- 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>
+ the system CPU has been added. The &man.cpuctl.4;
+ functionality includes the ability to retrieve CPUID
+ information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR),
+ and perform CPU firmware updates.</para>
<para>The &man.cpufreq.4; driver now supports an
<varname>hw.est.msr_info</varname> loader tunable. When
@@ -365,11 +368,11 @@
added to force this behavior by setting it to
non-zero.</para>
- <para>The &man.atkbd.4; now disables the interrupt handler
- which is called from the keyboard callback function when
- polled mode is enabled. This fixes duplicated/missing
- characters problem at mountroot on multi CPU systems while
- &man.kbdmux.4; is enabled.</para>
+ <para>The &man.atkbd.4; driver now disables the interrupt
+ handler which is called from the keyboard callback function
+ when polled mode is enabled. This fixes the problem of
+ duplicated/missing characters at the mountroot prompt on
+ multi CPU systems while &man.kbdmux.4; is enabled.</para>
<para>In the &man.pci.4; subsystem INTx is now disabled when
MSI/MSIX is enabled. This change fixes interrupt storm
@@ -395,8 +398,8 @@
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para>The &man.agp.4; now supports Intel G4X series graphics
- chipsets.</para>
+ <para>The &man.agp.4; driver now supports Intel G4X series
+ graphics chipsets.</para>
<para>The DRM, a kernel module named Direct Rendering
Manager that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients,
@@ -404,28 +407,30 @@
and IGP based chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915
chipsets has been improved.</para>
- <para>A new loader tunable <varname>hw.drm.msi</varname>
- which controls if DRM uses MSI or not. This is set to
- <literal>1</literal> (enabled) by default.</para>
+ <para>A new loader tunable <varname>hw.drm.msi</varname> has
+ been added to control if DRM uses MSI or not. This is set
+ to <literal>1</literal> (enabled) by default.</para>
<para>The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex
1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed because this was
broken for a long time.</para>
- <para>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
- group, digital (SPDIF/HDMI) audio input/output,
- suspend/resume, and part of multichannel audio.</para>
+ <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been updated. This
+ changes include support for multiple codec per HDA bus,
+ multiple functional groups per codec, multiple audio
+ devices per functional group, digital (SPDIF/HDMI) audio
+ input/output, suspend/resume, and part of multichannel
+ audio.</para>
<para>Note that due to added HDMI audio and logical audio
- devices support, updated driver often provides several PCM
- devices. In some cases it can make system default audio
- device no longer corresponding to the users's habitual
- audio connectors. In such cases the default device can be
- specified in audio application setup or defined globally
- via <varname>hw.snd.default_unit sysctl</varname>
- as described in the &man.sound.4; manual page.</para>
+ devices support, the updated driver often provides several
+ PCM devices. This means that in some cases the system
+ default audio device no longer corresponds to the users's
+ habitual audio connectors. In such cases the default
+ device can be specified in audio applications' setup or
+ defined globally via <varname>hw.snd.default_unit
+ sysctl</varname>, as described in the &man.sound.4; manual
+ page.</para>
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
@@ -451,8 +456,8 @@
<para>The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211
PHY.</para>
- <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to the
- firmware revision 4.7 and now supports hardware MAC
+ <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to firmware
+ revision 4.7 and now supports hardware MAC
statistics.</para>
<para>The &man.fxp.4; driver has been improved. Changes include:</para>
@@ -477,7 +482,7 @@
<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 revisions of 82558, and 82559ER have no WoL
capability.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -490,9 +495,9 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <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 the &man.igb.4; driver, which prevents the
+ loader tunable <varname>hw.igb.ave_latency</varname> from
+ working, has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to
version 1.7.4.</para>
@@ -502,7 +507,7 @@
<para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved. An issue
which makes it hang up in a certain condition has been
- fixed. A hardware MAC statistics support has been added
+ fixed. Hardware MAC statistics support has been added
and users can get the information via sysctl variables
named
<varname>dev.msk.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname>.</para>
@@ -516,9 +521,10 @@
<para>The &man.re.4; driver has been improved. It now
detects the link status. A new loader tunable
- <varname>hw.re.prefer_iomap</varname> to disable memory
- register mapping. This tunable is <literal>0</literal>
- for all controllers except RTL8169SC family.</para>
+ <varname>hw.re.prefer_iomap</varname> has been added, to
+ disable memory register mapping. This tunable is
+ <literal>0</literal> for all controllers except RTL8169SC
+ family.</para>
<para>The &man.rl.4; driver has been improved. It now
detects the link status and a bug which prevents it from
@@ -529,16 +535,16 @@
been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.txp.4; driver now works on all supported
- architecture. Also, &man.altq.4; support, WoL support,
- checksum offload when VLAN enabled, better link state
- change handling, a new sysctl variable
+ architectures. Support has been added for &man.altq.4;,
+ WoL, checksum offload when VLAN enabled, and link state
+ change handling has been improved, and new sysctl
+ variables
<varname>dev.txp.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname>
- for MAC statistics have been added. A new sysctl
- variable
+ for MAC statistics have been added. New sysctl variables
<varname>dev.txp.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.process_limit</varname>
- to control how many received frames should be served in Rx
- handler (set to 64 by default and valid ranges are 16 to
- 128 in unit of frames) has been added. The firmware has
+ has been added, to control how many received frames should
+ be served in Rx handler (set to 64 by default and valid
+ ranges are 16 to 128 in unit of frames). The firmware has
been updated to the latest version.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
@@ -575,23 +581,24 @@
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. An <literal>NGM_NETFLOW_SETCONFIG</literal> control
- message has been added to control the new functionality.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.netflow.4; Netgraph node now includes
+ support for generating egress netflow instead or in addition
+ to 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
- interface now supports <literal>TAPGIFNAME</literal>
+ <para>The &man.tap.4; Ethernet tunnel software network
+ interface now supports a new <literal>TAPGIFNAME</literal>
character device ioctl. This is a convenient shortcut to
- obtain network interface name using file descriptor for
- character device.</para>
+ obtain the network interface name using a file descriptor to
+ a character device.</para>
<para>The &man.tap.4; now supports
<literal>SIOCSIFMTU</literal> ioctl to set a higher MTU than
- 1500 (ETHERMTU). This allows &man.tap.4; device to be added
- to a bridge, which requires all interface members to have
- the same MTU, with an interface configured for jumbo
- frames.</para>
+ 1500 (ETHERMTU). This allows &man.tap.4; devices to be
+ added to the same bridge (which requires all interface
+ members to have the same MTU) with an interface configured
+ for jumbo frames.</para>
<para>The domains list for handling the list of supported
domains in the &man.unix.4; (UNIX domain protocol family)
@@ -606,11 +613,11 @@
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now recognizes nForce MCP67 and
MCP73 SATA controllers as AHCI.</para>
- <para>The &man.ataraid.4; driver now has an initial support
+ <para>The &man.ataraid.4; driver now includes preliminary support
for DDF metadata found on Adaptec HostRAID controllers.
Note that spares and rebuilds are not supported yet.</para>
- <para>The &man.cam.4; SCSI subsystem now supports a sysctl
+ <para>The &man.cam.4; SCSI subsystem now supports a new sysctl
variable <varname>kern.cam.cd.retry_count</varname>. This
controls the number of retries for the CD media. When
trying to read scratched or damaged CDs and DVDs, the
@@ -618,18 +625,18 @@
<application>ddrescue</application> do much better if you
turn off the retries entirely since their algorithms do it
by themselves. This value is set to <literal>4</literal>
- (for a total 5 attempts) by default. Setting to 0 turns off
- all retry attempts.</para>
+ (for a total of 5 attempts) by default. Setting it to
+ <literal>0</literal> turns off all retry attempts.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.ciss.4; driver which caused low
- <quote>max device openings</quote> count that has led
- to poor performance has been fixed.</para>
+ <quote>max device openings</quote> count and led to poor
+ performance has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.glabel.8; GEOM class now supports a new
UFS-based label called <literal>ufsid</literal> that can be
used to reference UFS-carrying devices by the unique file
system ID. This file system ID is automatically generated
- and detected when &man.glabel.8; GEOM class is enabled. An
+ and detected when the &man.glabel.8; GEOM class is enabled. An
example of this new label is:
<filename>/dev/ufsid/48e69c8b5c8e1b43</filename>. The
benefit of using GEOM labels in general is to avoid problems
@@ -638,15 +645,15 @@
<para>The &man.gjournal.8; GEOM class now supports the root
file system. Previously, an unclean shutdown would make it
- impossible to mount root file system at boot.</para>
+ impossible to mount the root file system at boot.</para>
<para>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.</para>
+ added, the BSD scheme now support bootcode, and bugs in the
+ PC98 and VTOC8 schemes have been fixed.</para>
- <para>An issue in the &man.gvinum.8; with access permissions
+ <para>An issue in &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
@@ -655,7 +662,7 @@
<para>The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated to version
1.16 from the vendor.</para>
- <para>The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; driver now support MMC
+ <para>The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; drivers now support MMC
and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock
transfers.</para>
@@ -663,8 +670,8 @@
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
<para>The &man.sdhci.4; driver has been added. This supports
- PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to SD Host
- Controller Specification.</para>
+ PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to the SD
+ Host Controller Specification.</para>
<para>The &man.sdhci.4; driver now supports kernel dumping and
a sysctl variable <varname>hw.sdhci.debug</varname> for debug
@@ -673,24 +680,24 @@
<para>The &man.twa.4; driver now supports 64-bit DMA.</para>
<para>The &man.mmc.4; &man.mmcsd.4;, and &man.sdhci.4; driver
- are now included as a kernel module.</para>
+ are now included as kernel modules.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The semantics of &man.acl.3; extended access control
- list has been changed as follows:</para>
+ lists has been changed as follows:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The inode modification time (mtime) is not updated
- when extended attribute are added, modified, or removed.</para>
+ when extended attributes are added, modified, or removed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The inode access time (atime) is not updated
- when extended attribute are queried.</para>
+ when extended attributes are queried.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -706,7 +713,7 @@
<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
+ the &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
@@ -718,7 +725,7 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para>A bug in the &man.atacontrol.8; utility which prevents it
+ <para>A bug in the &man.atacontrol.8; utility, which prevents it
from working when <filename>/usr</filename> is not mounted or
invoked from <filename>/rescue</filename>, has been
fixed.</para>
@@ -742,8 +749,8 @@
in the same way that &man.basename.1; does.</para>
<para>The &man.du.1; utility now supports an <option>-l</option>
- flag. When specified, the &man.du.1; counts a file with
- multiple hard links as multiple different files.</para>
+ flag. When specified, the &man.du.1; utility counts a file
+ with multiple hard links as multiple different files.</para>
<para>The &man.du.1; utility now supports an <option>-A</option> flag
to display the apparent size instead of the disk usage. This can be
@@ -751,11 +758,12 @@
<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> 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 file system with the given
+ calculate block counts in blocks of
+ <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable> bytes. This is 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
+ 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>
@@ -774,12 +782,12 @@
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
- 1.1 request. If specified it will cause the file to be
+ <option>-i</option> flag which supports the If-Modified-Since
+ HTTP 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, <application>libfetch</application> now accepts
- the mtime in the url structure and a flag to indicate when
- this behavior is desired.</para>
+ local file. Also, <application>libfetch</application> now
+ accepts the mtime in the url structure and a flag to indicate
+ when this behavior is desired.</para>
<para>The &man.fsck.8; utility now supports a
<option>-C</option> flag for <literal>check clean</literal>
@@ -793,7 +801,7 @@
&man.fsck.8; to survive with file systems that has very
serious data damage. This is a useful last resort when on
disk data damage is very serious and causes &man.fsck.8; to
- crash otherwise.</para>
+ crash.</para>
<para>The &man.getaddrinfo.3; function now supports SCTP.</para>
@@ -807,9 +815,9 @@
issue a warning message.</para>
<para>The &man.make.1; utility now supports a
- <option>-p</option> flag to print the input graph only, not
- executing any commands. The output is the same as <option>-d
- g1</option>. When combined with <option>-f
+ <option>-p</option> flag to print the input graph only,
+ without executing any commands. The output is the same as
+ <option>-d g1</option>. When combined with <option>-f
/dev/null</option>, only the built-in rules of make are
displayed.</para>
@@ -821,22 +829,22 @@
<para>The &man.make.1; utility now supports the
<varname>.MAKE.JOB.PREFIX</varname> variable. If
- <option>-j</option> and <option>-v</option> are specified, it
- outputs for each target is prefixed with a token <literal>---
+ <option>-j</option> and <option>-v</option> are specified, its
+ output for each target is prefixed with a token <literal>---
<replaceable>target</replaceable> ---</literal> the first part
of which can be controlled via the variable.</para>
<para>The &man.make.1; utility now supports
<varname>.MAKE.PID</varname> and <varname>.MAKE.PPID</varname>
variable. These are set to process ID of the &man.make.1;
- process and one of its parent process respectively.</para>
+ process and its parent process respectively.</para>
<para>The &man.makefs.8; utility to create a file system image
from a directory tree has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.mergemaster.8; utility now supports an
<option>-F</option> option to automatically install files that
- differ only in version control ID strings.</para>
+ differ only in their version control ID strings.</para>
<para>The &man.mount.8; utility now supports an <option>-o
mountprog=<replaceable>/somewhere/mount_xxx</replaceable></option>
@@ -846,7 +854,7 @@
FUSE, for example.</para>
<para>The &man.netstat.1; utility now reports &man.unix.4;
- sockets listen queue statistics when an <option>-L</option>
+ sockets' listen queue statistics when an <option>-L</option>
flag is specified.</para>
<para>A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. It
@@ -867,13 +875,14 @@
<para>The &man.powerd.8; program has been improved. Changes
include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems and a
new mode named as <literal>hiadaptive</literal> for AC-powered
- systems which rises frequency twice faster, drops it 4 times
- slower, prefers twice lower CPU load and has additional delay
- before leaving the highest frequency after the period of
- maximum load.</para>
+ systems. The <literal>hiadaptive</literal> mode raises the
+ CPU frequency twice as fast as <literal>adaptive</literal>, it
+ drops the CPU frequency 4 times slower, prefers twice lower
+ CPU load and has an additional delay before leaving the
+ highest frequency after the period of maximum load.</para>
<para>The &man.stat.1; utility now displays an octal
- representation of suid, sgid and sticky bits when an
+ representation of suid, sgid and sticky bits when the
<option>-x</option> flag is specified.</para>
<para>The &man.strndup.3; function has been added.</para>
@@ -882,9 +891,9 @@
flag to output the number of characters in the longest input
line.</para>
- <para>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.</para>
+ <para>A bug in the &man.rpc.yppasswdd.8; program, which causes
+ it to leave a zombie process when a password or default shell
+ is changed, has been fixed.</para>
<!--
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
@@ -909,8 +918,9 @@
<sect2 id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
- <para>A bug in &man.pkg.create.1; which prevents the
- <option>-n</option> flag from working has been fixed.</para>
+ <para>A bug in the &man.pkg.create.1; utility, which prevents
+ the <option>-n</option> flag from working has been
+ fixed.</para>
<para>The &os; Ports Collection now supports multiple
&man.make.1; jobs in some supported ports. This is
@@ -959,7 +969,7 @@
will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified
GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os;
release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the
- host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
+ host being upgraded has Internet connectivity.</para>
<para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
<command>Upgrade</command> option from the main
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