Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:29:35 +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: r191515 - releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <200904260829.n3Q8TZDj077219@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Sun Apr 26 08:29:35 2009 New Revision: 191515 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191515 Log: Update release notes: amd64 KVA space to 6GB, variable reference in loader(8) script fixed, debug.batt.batt_sleep_ms added, snd_au88x0(4) removed, typo in igb(4) hw.igb.ave_latency fixed, gvinum plex access permission issue fixed, du(1) -l flag added, "netstat -m -N foo" issue fixed, and wc(1) -L flag added. 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 Sun Apr 26 08:17:14 2009 (r191514) +++ releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Apr 26 08:29:35 2009 (r191515) @@ -208,7 +208,13 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>&os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for process execution.</para> + <para>The &os; DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for + process execution.</para> + + <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel virtual address space has + been increased to 6GB and the ceiling on the kmem map size + to 3.6GB. Note that the ceiling as a fraction of the kernel + map size rather than an absolute quantity.</para> <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -219,11 +225,23 @@ <para>The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.loader.8; has been fixed. Now the + following line works as expected:</para> + + <programlisting>loader_conf_files="<replaceable>foo</replaceable> <replaceable>bar</replaceable> ${<replaceable>variable</replaceable>}"</programlisting> </sect3> <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> + <para>The &man.acpi.4; subsystem now supports a &man.sysctl.8; + variable <varname>debug.batt.batt_sleep_ms</varname>. On + some laptops with smart batteries, enabling battery + monitoring software causes keystrokes from &man.atkbd.4; to + be lost. This sysctl variable adds a delay in millisecond + to the status checking code as a workaround.</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 @@ -242,6 +260,10 @@ chips, XGI V3XE/V5/V8, and Intel i915 chipsets has been improved.</para> + <para>The snd_au88x0(4) driver for Aureal Vortex + 1/2/Advantage PCI has been removed because this was + broken for a long time.</para> + <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been updated. Changes include: multiple codec per HDA bus, multiple functional groups per codec, multiple audio devices per functional @@ -264,6 +286,10 @@ <para>The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211 PHY.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.igb.4; driver which prevents a tunable + <varname>hw.igb.ave_latency</varname> from working has + been fixed.</para> + <para>The &man.jme.4; driver now supports newer JMicron JMC250/JMC260 revisions.</para> @@ -290,6 +316,12 @@ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121.</para> + <para>An issue in the &man.gvinum.8; with access permissions + to underlying disks used by a gvinum plex has been fixed. + If the plex is a raid5 plex and is being written to, parity data might + have to be read from the underlying disks, requiring them to be opened for + reading as well as writing.</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> @@ -315,6 +347,10 @@ <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports multiple <varname>makeoption</varname> lines.</para> + <para>The &man.du.1; utility now supports an <option>-l</option> + flag. When specified, the &man.du.1; counts a file with + multiple hard links as multiple different files.</para> + <para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an <option>-i</option> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP request.</para> @@ -331,6 +367,12 @@ messages for a NAT rule even when a <option>-q</option> flag is specified.</para> + <para>A bug in the &man.netstat.1; utility has been fixed. It + crashed with the following options in the previous + versions:</para> + + <screen>&prompt.user; netstat -m -N foo</screen> + <para>The &man.powerd.8; program has been improved. Changes include reasonable CPU load estimation on SMP systems and a new mode named as <literal>hiadaptive</literal> for AC-powered @@ -341,6 +383,10 @@ <para>The &man.strndup.3; function has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.wc.1; utility now supports an <option>-L</option> + flag to output the number of characters in the longest input + line.</para> + <para>A bug in the &man.rpc.yppasswdd.8; program which leaves a zombie process when a password or default shell is changed has been fixed.</para>
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