Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:00:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r210435 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201007232200.o6NM0K3L029139@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Fri Jul 23 22:00:19 2010 New Revision: 210435 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210435 Log: Sort entries. Cosmetic changes only. Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Jul 23 21:51:41 2010 (r210434) +++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Jul 23 22:00:19 2010 (r210435) @@ -241,9 +241,6 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256 - of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para> - <para>A new kernel thread called <quote>deadlock resolver</quote> has been added. This can be used to detect possible deadlock by using information of thread state and @@ -252,6 +249,9 @@ kernel configuration file and recompilation of the kernel.</para> + <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256 + of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para> + <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para> @@ -287,6 +287,17 @@ INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE</option> has been added to <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para> + <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the + timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the + wakeup has been fixed.</para> + + <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has + been fixed.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented + process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly + has been fixed.</para> + <para>New SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) probes such as ones for <literal>opencrypto</literal> and <literal>vnet</literal> have been added to &os; &man.dtrace.1; subsystem.</para> @@ -299,26 +310,15 @@ <para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and SPARC64 V CPUs.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that - <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This - affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the - timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the - wakeup has been fixed.</para> - - <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has - been fixed.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented - process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly - has been fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver has been improved. The history buffer can be fully saved/restored in the VESA mode switching via a loader tunable <varname>hint.sc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.vesa_mode</varname>.</para> + <para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that + <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This + affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386">An x86 real mode emulator based on OpenBSD's x86emu implementation has been added to improve real mode BIOS call support on both &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64;. @@ -355,17 +355,17 @@ <para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports U-Boot storage.</para> + <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has + been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when + using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the + loader fails to load a kernel.</para> + <para>A kernel environment variable <varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated list. Each list element will be tried in order and the first available one will be mounted.</para> - <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has - been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when - using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the - loader fails to load a kernel.</para> - <para>The <filename>zfsloader</filename> has been added. This is a separate &man.zfs.8; enabled loader. Note that a ZFS bootcode (<filename>zfsboot</filename> or @@ -402,6 +402,25 @@ JBus to PCIe bridge (called as <quote>Fire</quote>) found in the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines.</para> + <para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides + thermal management and monitoring features. This allows fan + control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5 + machines, as well as an &man.led.4; interface to control the + sleep LED.</para> + + <para>The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now + supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip.</para> + + <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865 + family of Serial/Parallel ports.</para> + + <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel + from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by + <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send + a zero length packet has been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8; <literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties instead of <literal>attach</literal> events. The following is an @@ -418,21 +437,6 @@ action "/path/to/command -flag"; };</programlisting> - <para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides - thermal management and monitoring features. This allows fan - control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5 - machines, as well as an &man.led.4; interface to control the - sleep LED.</para> - - <para>The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now - supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip.</para> - - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865 - family of Serial/Parallel ports.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send - a zero length packet has been fixed.</para> - <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> @@ -457,10 +461,6 @@ operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;. Note that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all ports.</para> - - <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel - from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by - <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para> </sect4> <sect4 id="net-if"> @@ -520,12 +520,12 @@ <filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not compilied by default.</para> - <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum - offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para> - <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version 7.0.0.</para> + <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum + offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para> + <para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC statistics via sysctl variables.</para> @@ -881,18 +881,22 @@ &man.cam.3; to wait, while CD drive loads disk, instead of immediately return error status.</para> </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports - Power-Up In Stand-by (PUIS). The PUIS is a configuration of - SATA or PATA drives to prevent them from automatic spin-up - when power is applied. A typical application is staggered - spin-up.</para> - - <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports - negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as - device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to - Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para> + <listitem> + <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports + Power-Up In Stand-by (PUIS). The PUIS is a configuration of + SATA or PATA drives to prevent them from automatic spin-up + when power is applied. A typical application is staggered + spin-up.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports + negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as + device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to + Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> <para>A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high load has been fixed.</para>
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