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Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:53:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   PERFORCE change 8211 for review
Message-ID:  <200203221953.g2MJrVH79681@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Change 8211 by bmah@bmah_intruder on 2002/03/22 11:52:47

	Wordsmithing, fixups.

Affected files ...

... //depot/releng/5_dp1/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#3 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/releng/5_dp1/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#3 (text+ko) ====

@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@
     <pubdate>$FreeBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml,v 1.9 2002/03/14 21:52:01 bmah Exp $</pubdate>
 
     <copyright>
-      <year>2000</year>
-      <year>2001</year>
       <year>2002</year>
       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
     </copyright>
@@ -54,9 +52,6 @@
       operation or usability.  Please note that &os; &release.current;
       is not an officially supported release of FreeBSD.</para>
 
-    <para>This errata document for &os; &release.current; will be
-      maintained until the release of &os; 5.0 DP2.</para>
-
   </abstract>
 
   <sect1>
@@ -73,12 +68,12 @@
       <listitem><para><command>gcc -O</command> is known to be
         broken.</para></listitem>
 
-      <listitem><para>Two different pccard implementations depending
-        on whether you need cardbus or not, and NEWCARD has pccard
-        bugs.</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>There are two different pccard implementations,
+        OLDCARD and NEWCARD.  NEWCARD has support for Cardbus, but has
+        PCCARD problems.</para></listitem>
   
       <listitem><para>Kernels may have to be built with
-        'NO_WERROR=yes' due to warning handling in the build
+        <literal>-DNO_WERROR=yes</literal> due to warning handling in the build
         infrastructure.</para></listitem>
   
       <listitem><para>The system documentation indicates that there is
@@ -93,8 +88,8 @@
     <title>Unfinished Features</title>
 
     <para>A number of very significant changes to the system will be
-      made for &os; 5.0.  These features are in the following stages
-      of development.</para>
+      made for &os; &release.next;.  These features, and their approximate status, 
+      are noted here.</para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
 
@@ -111,18 +106,18 @@
       <listitem><para>Mandatory access control support from the
         TrustedBSD branch is not yet merged.</para></listitem>
   
-      <listitem><para>UFS2 is not yet ready for inclusion in the
+      <listitem><para>UFS2 (essentially, UFS with extended attributes in inodes) is not yet ready for inclusion in the
         snapshot.</para></listitem>
 
     </itemizedlist>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1>
-    <title>Known pitfalls</title>
+    <title>Known Pitfalls</title>
 
     <itemizedlist>
 
-      <listitem><para>Debugging kernels are very slow; this is a
+      <listitem><para>Kernels with debugging features enabled are very slow; this is a
         natural product of the debugging code in these kernels.  Those
         benchmarking the system should be sure to run without
         debugging features enabled.</para></listitem>
@@ -130,10 +125,10 @@
       <listitem><para>Interrupt latency is high due to on-going SMP
         work, this will be fixed prior to the final release.</para></listitem>
   
-      <listitem><para>Tighter enforcement of #include file deprecation
+      <listitem><para>Tighter enforcement of <literal>#include</literal> file deprecation
         results in a number of common applications failing to build.
-        In particular, if you #include &lt;malloc.h>, you now get a
-        #error instead of a #warning.</para></listitem>
+        In particular, if you <literal>#include &lt;malloc.h></literal>, you now get a
+        <literal>#error</literal> instead of a <literal>#warning</literal>.</para></listitem>
   
       <listitem><para>The kernel is no longer installed as
         <filename>/kernel</filename> and
@@ -143,18 +138,14 @@
       <listitem><para>When upgrading a system, make sure to pay
         attention to the <filename>pam.conf</filename> ->
         <filename>pam.d</filename> change.  Likewise, there has been a
-        libpam version bump as well as new PAM modules introduced:
+        <filename>libpam</filename> version bump as well as new PAM modules introduced:
         this may result in warnings from older authentication-related
-        applications such as <literal>RELENG_4</literal>
+        applications compiled under <literal>RELENG_4</literal>, such
         <application>xdm</application>,
         <application>kdm</application>, and
         <application>gdm</application>.</para></listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see <ulink
-      url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"></ulink>; or <ulink
-      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"></ulink>.</para>;
-
   </sect1>
 
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