Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 +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: r210366 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201007220553.o6M5rCTU055816@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Thu Jul 22 05:53:12 2010 New Revision: 210366 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210366 Log: New relnotes item: syscons(4) history handling improved, X86BIOS added on i386/amd64, loader(8) U-Boot storage support [powerpc], smu(4) thermal management and monitoring [powerpc], tnt4882(4) now supports TNT5004, acpi_video(4) LCD brightness control notify handler support, acpi_sony(4) now supports brightness, wired LAN power, bass gain, ath(4) supports AR9285, bge(4) ASF heartbeat sending fixed, vlan(4) IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO, ciss(4) livelock fixed, find(1) -newerXB fixed, procstat(1) -i/-j added, and tzdata2010e. 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 Thu Jul 22 05:42:29 2010 (r210365) +++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Thu Jul 22 05:53:12 2010 (r210366) @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ kernel configuration file and recompilation of the kernel.</para> - <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead has been added + <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para> <itemizedlist> @@ -279,6 +279,17 @@ 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 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;. + The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.dpms.4;, vesa(4), &man.vga.4; driver + now use this emulator and work on the both platforms.</para> + <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; virtualization container can work with &man.sctp.4; now. Note that the VIMAGE is not enabled by default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> @@ -306,6 +317,9 @@ default value of <varname>currdev</varname>. This option can be set by the EFI boot manager.</para> + <para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports + U-Boot storage.</para> + <para>A kernel environment variable <varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated @@ -355,6 +369,15 @@ 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> @@ -366,6 +389,13 @@ <para></para> + <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD + brightness control notify handler.</para> + + <para>The &man.acpi.sony.4; helper driver now supports + default display brightness, wired LAN power, and bass + gain.</para> + <para>The &man.agp.4; driver has been improved. It includes a fix for aparture size calculation issue which prevents some graphics cards from working.</para> @@ -387,13 +417,23 @@ <para></para> + <para>The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros + AR9285-based devices.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.ath.4; driver which causes a problem + of AR5416-based chipsets including AR9285 has been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports BCM5761, BCM5784, and BCM57780-based devices.</para> <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP - segmentation offloading) on BCM5755 or newer + Segmentation Offloading) on BCM5755 or newer contollers.</para> + <para>A long-standing bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which + was related to ASF heartbeat sending has been + fixed.</para> + <para>A long-standing stability issue of the &man.bce.4; and &man.bge.4; driver due to a hardware bug in its DMA handling when the system has more than 4GB memory has been @@ -539,6 +579,12 @@ <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface has been added to <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> + <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface now supports TSO (TCP + Segmentation Offloading). The capability flag is named as + <varname>IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO</varname> and it is separated from + <varname>IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING</varname>. The &man.mxge.4; + driver supports this feature.</para> + <para>The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN now ignore renaming of the parent's interface name. The configured VLAN interfaces continue to work with the new @@ -627,6 +673,9 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> + <para>A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high + load has been fixed.</para> + <para>A bug in the &man.fdc.4; driver which prevents the kernel module from unloading has been fixed.</para> @@ -769,6 +818,10 @@ <para>A bug in &man.fetch.1; utility which incorrectly evaluates a variable <varname>NO_PROXY</varname> has been fixed.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.find.1; utility has been fixed. An option + <option>-newerXB</option> was interpreted as the same as + <option>-newerXm</option>.</para> + <para>A bug in the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility which causes the last cylinder group of a UFS1 file system is always reported as broken even after it is fixed.</para> @@ -806,6 +859,11 @@ <para>The &man.ntpd.8; program no longer tries to bind to an IPv6 anycast address.</para> + <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility now supports two new flags + <option>-i</option> and <option>-j</option> to display + information about signal disposition and pending/blocked + status for signals.</para> + <para>The &man.pwait.1; utility has been added. This is similar to the Solaris utility of the same name, and waits for any process to terminate.</para> @@ -938,7 +996,7 @@ version 8.14.4.</para> <para>The timezone database has been updated to the - <application>tzdata2010b</application> release.</para> + <application>tzdata2010e</application> release.</para> <!-- <para role="8.0">The <application>ee</application> (easy editor) has
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