Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:29:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-releng@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r191505 - releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <200904260029.n3Q0ToEA067568@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Sun Apr 26 00:29:49 2009 New Revision: 191505 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191505 Log: Update release note: boot0 volume ID and F6 PXE invoke support, DHCP options via kenv, cpuctl(4) added, ciphy(4) VSC8211 support, jme(4) newer JMC250/260 support, rl(4) improved, ata(4) Marvell PATA M88SX6121 support, and config(8) multiple makeoption support. 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 Sat Apr 25 23:40:20 2009 (r191504) +++ releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Apr 26 00:29:49 2009 (r191505) @@ -212,13 +212,22 @@ <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para></para> + <para>The &man.boot.8; now supports 4-byte volume ID that + certain versions of Windows put into the MBR and invoking + 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> </sect3> <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para></para> + <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> <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> @@ -251,8 +260,15 @@ <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para></para> + <para>The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211 + PHY.</para> + <para>The &man.jme.4; driver now supports newer JMicron + JMC250/JMC260 revisions.</para> + + <para>The &man.rl.4; driver has been improved. A bug which + prevents it from working on systems with more than 4GB + memory has been fixed.</para> </sect4> </sect3> @@ -271,6 +287,8 @@ <sect3 id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> + <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121.</para> + <para>The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; driver now support MMC and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock transfers.</para> @@ -293,6 +311,9 @@ <sect2 id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> + <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports + multiple <varname>makeoption</varname> lines.</para> + <para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an <option>-i</option> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP request.</para>
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