From owner-svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 05:53:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B548C1065676; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9936D8FC16; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6M5rCfl055818; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from hrs@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o6M5rCTU055816; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201007220553.o6M5rCTU055816@svn.freebsd.org> From: Hiroki Sato Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org X-SVN-Group: stable-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: svn commit: r210366 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:53:12 -0000 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. - Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead has been added + Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added to &man.fcntl.2; system call: @@ -279,6 +279,17 @@ process usage (%CPU) from working correctly has been fixed. + 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 + hint.sc.0.vesa_mode. + + 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. + The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; virtualization container can work with &man.sctp.4; now. Note that the VIMAGE is not enabled by default in GENERIC kernel. @@ -306,6 +317,9 @@ default value of currdev. This option can be set by the EFI boot manager. + The &man.loader.8; program now supports + U-Boot storage. + A kernel environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom now supports multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated @@ -355,6 +369,15 @@ JBus to PCIe bridge (called as Fire) found in the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines. + 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. + + The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now + supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip. + The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865 family of Serial/Parallel ports. @@ -366,6 +389,13 @@ + The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD + brightness control notify handler. + + The &man.acpi.sony.4; helper driver now supports + default display brightness, wired LAN power, and bass + gain. + The &man.agp.4; driver has been improved. It includes a fix for aparture size calculation issue which prevents some graphics cards from working. @@ -387,13 +417,23 @@ + The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros + AR9285-based devices. + + A bug in the &man.ath.4; driver which causes a problem + of AR5416-based chipsets including AR9285 has been fixed. + The &man.bge.4; driver now supports BCM5761, BCM5784, and BCM57780-based devices. The &man.bge.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP - segmentation offloading) on BCM5755 or newer + Segmentation Offloading) on BCM5755 or newer contollers. + A long-standing bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which + was related to ASF heartbeat sending has been + fixed. + 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 @@ The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface has been added to GENERIC kernel. + The &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface now supports TSO (TCP + Segmentation Offloading). The capability flag is named as + IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO and it is separated from + IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING. The &man.mxge.4; + driver supports this feature. + 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 @@ + A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high + load has been fixed. + A bug in the &man.fdc.4; driver which prevents the kernel module from unloading has been fixed. @@ -769,6 +818,10 @@ A bug in &man.fetch.1; utility which incorrectly evaluates a variable NO_PROXY has been fixed. + A bug in &man.find.1; utility has been fixed. An option + was interpreted as the same as + . + 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. @@ -806,6 +859,11 @@ The &man.ntpd.8; program no longer tries to bind to an IPv6 anycast address. + The &man.procstat.1; utility now supports two new flags + and to display + information about signal disposition and pending/blocked + status for signals. + 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. @@ -938,7 +996,7 @@ version 8.14.4. The timezone database has been updated to the - tzdata2010b release. + tzdata2010e release.