Module Name: src
Committed By: riz
Date: Mon Dec 17 17:52:07 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/distrib/notes/common [netbsd-6-0]: main
Log Message:
Update release notes for 6.0.1.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.484.2.4 -r1.484.2.4.2.1 src/distrib/notes/common/main
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Index: src/distrib/notes/common/main
diff -u src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.484.2.4 src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.484.2.4.2.1
--- src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.484.2.4 Fri Oct 12 22:06:59 2012
+++ src/distrib/notes/common/main Mon Dec 17 17:52:06 2012
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.484.2.4 2012/10/12 22:06:59 riz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.484.2.4.2.1 2012/12/17 17:52:06 riz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -458,429 +458,51 @@ possible, it's likely that
wouldn't exist.
.
.if \n[FOR_RELEASE] \{\
-.Ss Changes Between The NetBSD 5.0 and 6.0 Releases
+.Ss Changes Between The NetBSD 6.0 and 6.0.1 Releases
.Pp
-The
-.Nx
-\*V release
-provides numerous significant functional enhancements, including
-support for many new devices, integration of hundreds of bug fixes,
-new and updated kernel subsystems, and many user-land enhancements.
-The result of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for
-production use that rivals most commercially available systems.
-.Pp
-It is impossible to completely summarize the massive development that
-went into the
-.Nx
-\*V release.
The complete list of changes can be found in the
-CHANGES:
-.Lk http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0/CHANGES
-and
-CHANGES-6.0:
-.Lk http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0/CHANGES-6.0
-files in the top level directory of the NetBSD 6.0 release tree.
-.Pp
-Some highlights include:
-.Ss2 General kernel
+CHANGES-6.0.1:
+.Lk http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0.1/CHANGES-6.0.1
+file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 6.0.1 release tree. An abbreviated list is as follows:
+.Ss2 Security Fixes
.(bullet
-.Dv "time_t"
-and
-.Dv "dev_t"
-are now 64 bits.
-.It
-Much-improved compat_linux support for running Linux binaries.
-.It
-Added a generic producer/consumer queue.
-.It
-Added a new ptree ( Patricia / RADIX tree ) implementation.
-.It
-Removed
-.Dv "MALLOC()"
-and
-.Dv "FREE()"
-macros.
-.It
-Compute
-.Dv "kern.ipc.shmmaxpages"
-on startup based on physical memory. Can be overridden via
-.Xr sysctl 8 .
-.It
-.Xr kmem_alloc 9 :
-Add more extensive runtime debugging facilities.
-.It
-File descriptor access performance improvements were made.
-.It
-.Xr cpu_reboot 9 :
-tear down stacks of devices and file systems in an orderly fashion during shutdown.
-.It
-Added 'show vmem' and 'show all vmems' commands to
-.Xr ddb 4 .
-.It
-Added high-priority
-.Xr xcall 9
-support.
-.It
-Added direct select()/poll() support.
-.It
-Add PCU (Per-CPU Unit) interface to unify synchronization of per CPU context, like lazy FPU management.
-.It
-Added new system calls
-.Xr pipe2 2 ,
-.Xr paccept 2 ,
-.Xr kqueue1 2 ,
-flags SOCK_CLOEXEC/SOCK_NONBLOCK to
-.Xr socket 2 ,
-.Xr socketpair 2 ,
-F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC to
-.Xr fcntl 2 ,
-and a MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC to
-.Xr recvfrom 2
-to be able to set close-on-exec to all newly created file descriptors.
-.It
-Major improvements to
-.Xr uvm_map 9 ,
-.Xr uvm_km 9 ,
-.Xr vmem 9 ,
-and
-.Xr kmem 9
-layers.
-.It
-Removed
-.Xr ltsleep 9
-and wakeup_one(9).
-.It
-Rewrote most of the entropy-gathering and entropy-distributing code, separating the
-.Xr rnd 4
-pseudodevice from the bitstream generation code
-.Xr cprng 9
-and entropy-pool code
-.Xr rnd 9 .
+expat: Fix CVE-2012-1147, CVE-2012-1148 and CVE-2012-0876.
.It
-.Xr kmem_alloc 9 :
-add more extensive runtime debugging facilities.
-.It
-Kernel support for
-.Xr posix_spawn 3 .
+BIND: Address CVE-2012-5688: Named could die on specific queries with dns64 enabled.
.bullet)
.
-.Ss2 Networking
+.Ss2 General kernel
.(bullet
-.Xr ip 4 :
-added IP_RECVTTL option to let
-.Xr recvmsg 2
-return the TTL of the received datagram.
-.It
-.Xr ip 4 :
-added IP_MINTTL option to discard packets with a TTL lower than the option value.
+posix_spawn(): Fix processes with attributes.
.It
-Added SOCK_SEQPACKET for local sockets.
+Resolve races between vget() and vrele() resulting in vget() returning dead vnodes.
.It
-Added
-.Dv "net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho"
-.Xr sysctl 7 ,
-to disable ICMP replies to the braodcast address.
+Prevent crash when unsupported fd's are used with kevent.
.It
-Make TCP window size autoscaling the default.
-.It
-Derive the mbuf cluster (NMBCLUSTERS) at boot time from the available memory. The default can be raised by changing
-.Dv "kern.mbuf.nmbclusters"
-.
-.It
-Added NPF, the NetBSD Packet Filter.
-.It
-.Xr udp 4 :
-implement RFC6056 port selection algorithms.
.bullet)
.
-.Ss2 File systems
+.Ss2 Networking
.(bullet
-Added CHFS, a file system for flash devices.
-.It
-The default behavior when mounting empty msdosfs file systems has been changed to assume long filenames. The behavior with populated file systems has not changed.
-.It
-UDF: Added support for session opening/closing on sequential media.
-.It
-ext2fs: Added support for >128 byte inodes.
+Fix "atomic fragments" for IPv6.
.It
-Import OpenSolaris ZFS code. Experimental-only; does not work yet.
-.It
-ffs: New quota support. This adds a new on-disk format to store disk quota usage and limits, integrated with ffs metadata. Usage is checked by
-.Xr fsck_ffs 8
-(no more quotacheck) and is covered by the WAPBL journal. Enabled with kernel option QUOTA2.
+ipf: Fix alignment issues in ipmon.
+(PR#47101):
+.Lk http://gnats.NetBSD.org/47101
+.It
+npf: handle delayed checksums in the network stack.
+(PR#47235):
+.Lk http://gnats.NetBSD.org/47235
.bullet)
.
-.Ss2 Security
+.Ss2 File systems
.(bullet
-.Xr secmodel_bsd44 9 ,
-.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9 :
-Add provisions to control access to
-.Xr gpio 4
-pins.
-.It
-.Xr security.conf 5 :
-Add check_pkg_vulnerabilities and check_pkg_signatures to validate the installed packages against the vulnerabilities database and the expected checksums for their files.
+smbfs: Make smbfs actually work on big-endian ports.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Drivers
.(bullet
-Audio:
-.(bullet
-Added
-.Xr gcscaudio 4
-driver for AMD Geode CS5536.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr hdaudio 4 ,
-a new standards-compliant Intel High Definition Audio driver written to replace
-.Xr azalia 4 .
-.It
-.Xr audio 9 :
-Audio drivers are now MP-safe.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-Hardware Monitoring:
-.(bullet
-.Xr sysmon_envsys 9 :
-Enhancements to allow access to driver-internal limit values.
-.It
-.Xr acpicpu 4 :
-Add a driver for ACPI-based processor functionality.
-.It
-.Xr acpipmtr 4 :
-Add a driver for ACPI power meters.
-.It
-.Xr acpismbus 4 :
-ACPI SMBus Control Method Interface driver.
-.It
-.Xr acpiwdrt 4 :
-ACPI Watchdog Resource Tables driver.
-.It
-.Xr acpiwmi 4 :
-Windows Management Instrumentation support for ACPI. Also added mappings for
-.Xr wmidell 4 ,
-.Xr wmieeepc 4 ,
-.Xr wmihp 4 ,
-and
-.Xr wmimsi 4 .
-.It
-.Xr aibs 4 :
-New driver for ASUSTeK AI Booster (ACPI ASOC ATK0110) hardware monitor with limit support.
-.It
-.Xr amdtemp 4 :
-Add support for Family 12h.
-.It
-.Xr dbcool 4 :
-Added support for ADM1031 thermal sensor / fan controller.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-Networking:
-.(bullet
-Added support for more chip revisions to
-.Xr re 4 .
-Added hardware checksum support for newer PCIe 8168C/8111C/8102E chips.
-.It
-Switch
-.Xr ath 4
-from the binary HAL to the open-source HAL from Sam Leffler.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr bwi 4
-driver for Broadcom AirForce / Apple Airport Extreme network cards.
-.It
-Added flow control and RTL8211C(L) PHY support to
-.Xr rgephy 4 .
-.It
-Added
-.Xr age 4
-and
-.Xr atphy 4
-drivers for Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet and F1 PHY, respectively.
-.It
-Added support for flow control to
-.Xr sk 4 .
-.It
-Added support for flow control on MCP65 to
-.Xr nfe 4 .
-.It
-Added TCPv4/UDPv4 RX hardware checksum support for i82559 and later chips to
-.Xr fxp 4 .
-.It
-.Xr wm 4 :
-Added ICH10, PCH, PCH2, 82575, 82576, 82580 and I350 devices support. Added some other improvements and workarounds.
-.It
-.Xr bge 4 :
-added misc quirk code for chip specific bugs.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr ale 4 :
-Attansic/Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet.
-.It
-.Xr agr 4 :
-added support for layering vlans on top, and allow LACP to be disabled.
-.It
-.Xr alc 4 :
-Add a driver for Atheros AR813x/AR815x Ethernet.
-.It
-.Xr aue 4 :
-Add support for I-O DATA ETX-US2.
-.It
-.Xr bnx 4 :
-Added support for Broadcom BCM5709 and BCM5716 chips. Add support for Broadcom BCM5709S (SerDes) chip.
-.It
-.Xr et 4 ,
-.Xr etphy 4 :
-Add a driver for Agere/LSI ET1310/ET1301 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device and the Agere/LSI ET1011 TruePHY Gigabit Ethernet PHY.
-.It
-.Xr kue 4 :
-fixed unaligned memory accesses so it now works on ARM and MIPS machines.
-.It
-.Xr ne 4 :
-add proper support for NE2000 8-bit mode.
-.It
-.Xr nfe 4 :
-Add support for flow control for MCP65.
-.It
-.Xr otus 4 :
-Atheros AR9100U driver.
-.It
-.Xr smsh 4 :
-Add a SMSC LAN9118 Family Ethernet driver.
-.It
-.Xr upgt 4 :
-Add a driver for Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g WLAN.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-Storage:
-.(bullet
-Added an experimental in-kernel iSCSI initiator, from Wasabi Systems.
-.It
-.Xr viaide 4 :
-Added VT8237S Integrated SATA controller support, and VT6410 PATA RAID controller support (without RAID).
-.It
-Added LVM functionality with
-.Xr dm 4
-driver and lvm2 userland tools.
-.It
-Added support for 82965PM to
-.Xr piixide 4 .
-.It
-.Xr vnd 4 :
-implemented DIOCCACHESYNC. Also, allow
-.Xr vnd 4
-to be backed by a sparse file.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr sdmmc 4
-driver for SD/MMC.
-.It
-.Xr mvsata 4 :
-support the Marvell Hercules-I/II SATA controllers.
-.It
-.Xr flash 9 :
-Add a subsystem to handle flash memory devices, and
-.Xr nand 9 ,
-a subsystem to handle NAND controllers.
-.It
-.Xr mfi 4 :
-Add support for LSI's newer (GEN2) RAID controller.
-.It
-.Xr nside 4 :
-Add a driver for the National Semiconductor PC87415 IDE controller.
-.It
-.Xr raid 4 :
-.(bullet
-RAIDFrame parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown.
-.It
-Added support for non 512-byte sector devices.
-.It
-Added support for >2TB devices.
-.bullet)
-.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-USB:
-.(bullet
-.Xr uftdi 4 :
-Added support for REX-USB60F.
-.It
-.Xr ehci 4 :
-work around USB subsystem freeze for SB600/SB700 chipsets.
-.It
-.Xr ums 4 :
-Added touchpanel support.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-Graphics and Video:
-.(bullet
-.Xr drm 4 :
-updated to mesa-drm 85b9f737db0d2a845e4d7e2bbf9ad12ff9e2227c.
-.It
-.Xr acpivga 4 :
-ACPI Video Extensions driver.
-.It
-.Xr agp 4 :
-Added support for Intel G35, Intel G45, and Intel 82855GM.
-.It
-.Xr auvitek 4 :
-Add a driver for Auvitek AU0828 family USB video capture controllers.
-.It
-.Xr dtv 4 :
-Add new digital TV framework.
-.It
-.Xr cxdtv 4 :
-Add driver for Conexant CX23880-based DTV cards.
-.It
-.Xr emdtv 4 :
-Add a driver for Empia EM28xx family USB video capture controllers.
-.It
-.Xr omapfb 4 :
-a simple driver for OMAP 3xxx on-chip video, especially the Beagleboard.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-Miscellaneous:
-.(bullet
-Added Elantech multi-touch trackpad support to
-.Xr pms 4 .
-.It
-Added the
-.Xr altmem 4
-.Dq alternative memory
-
-disk driver, which allows memory that is normally inaccessible by the machine-dependent
-.Xr pmap 9
-to be used (as swap space).
-.It
-.Xr ichlpcib 4 :
-support 82801IEM LPC Interface Bridge.
-.It
-Complete rework of
-.Xr gpio 4
-to integrate with
-.Xr kauth 9 ,
-allow for runtime driver attachment, and naming of individual pins. Add
-.Xr gpiosim 4
-driver to simulate a
-.Xr gpio 4
-device for testing purposes.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr gpioiic 4
-driver to bit-bang an I2C bus using GPIO pins.
-.It
-.Xr btmagic 4 :
-Apple Magic Mouse driver.
-.It
-.Xr vmt 4 :
-Add a VMware Tools driver, from OpenBSD.
-.bullet)
-.
+.Xr ciss 4 :
+don't try to handle sensors if there aren't any.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Platforms
@@ -889,878 +511,38 @@ x86 (
i386,
amd64):
.(bullet
-.Xr pxeboot 8
-now parses
-.Xr boot.cfg 5 .
-.It
-The bootloader has been enhanced to support framebuffer consoles using VESA BIOS extensions. x86 ports now work with the
-.Xr genfb 4
-framebuffer, and the i386-only
-.Xr vesafb 4
-framebuffer has been obsoleted.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr ucas 9
-support for x86.
-.It
-.Xr sysinst 8
-now defaults to UFS2 for x86 platforms.
-.It
-CPU topology detection suport for AMD processors.
-.It
-Enable Ext2fs support in bootloader.
-.It
-Booting from a disk with a GUID Partition Table (GPT) is now possible.
-.It
-Support
-.Xr userconf 4
-command in
-.Xr boot.cfg 5 .
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-i386:
-.(bullet
-Use
-.Dq i486
-
-as GNU_ARCH.
-.It
-Added PAE (Physical Address Extension) support.
-.It
-Better support for VIA C7 CPUs.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-amd64:
-.(bullet
-Added direct map support (mapping of all physical memory using large pages).
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-alpha:
-.(bullet
-X11: add support for X11FLAVOUR=xorg.
-.It
-Support for Avalon A12 removed.
-.It
-Converted Alpha to use PCU to manage FPU.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-amiga:
-.(bullet
-Added basic PCI support.
-.It
-.Xr efa 4 :
-ELBOX FastATA 1200 driver.
-.It
-Add a driver for BlizzardPPC 603e+ SCSI.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-amigappc:
-.(bullet
-A CSPPC system with
-.Xr ahsc 4
-or
-.Xr cbiiisc 4
-boots into multiuser;
-.It
-Onboard serial now works.
-.It
-.Xr efa 4 :
-ELBOX FastATA 1200 driver.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-ARM ports(
-acorn26,
-acorn32,
-cats,
-evbarm,
-hpcarm,
-iyonix,
-netwinder,
-shark,
-zaurus):
-.(bullet
-Cortex-A8 CPU support is available.
-.It
-i.MX51 SoC support is available.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-atari:
-.(bullet
-Add support for the SMC Elite Ultra Ethernet with the SMC_TT VME-ISA bridge.
-.It
-Add support for the EtherNEC, ISA NE2000 based Ethernet connected to Atari ROM cartridge slot.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-bebox:
-.(bullet
-Support xserver. Tested on s3(TRIO 64V+).
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-cobalt:
-.(bullet
-Add LBA48 support to bootloader so that it can safely load a kernel from NetBSD partition beyond >137GB boundary.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-dreamcast:
-.(bullet
-Fixed a long standing GD-ROM driver bug so that file system on GD-ROM works properly.
-.It
-Build and put a raw binary format kernel into distribution.
+Work around a possible gcc bug generating bad assembler code.
+(PR#45673):
+.Lk http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45673
.It
-Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-evbarm:
-.(bullet
-.It
-Added support for Gumstix Verdex and Verdex Pro.
-.It
-Support Marvell Sheevaplug and some Marvell SoC NAS boxes.
-.It
-Add initial support for Sharp NetWalker MID.
-.It
-Add driver for OMAP NAND controllers.
-.It
-Add FriendlyARM Mini2440 support.
-.It
-Add initial support for the RaspberryPi. No support yet for the USB controller, the Ethernet interface, or the video chip. Serial console works, and boots multiuser.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-evbmips:
-.(bullet
-Added
-.Xr voyagerfb 4
-driver, for the Gdium Liberty 1000's video controller.
-.It
-Added support for RMI XLS6ATX_7A board and XL SoC family.
-.It
-Added support for RMI (NetLogic) XLS/XLR models.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-evbppc:
-.(bullet
-Enable builds for OEA, ibm4xx and Book-E modules.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-evbsh3:
-.(bullet
-Add support for Alpha Project MS104-SH4, TAC T-SH7706LAN Rev.3 and TAC T-SH7706LSR Rev.1.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-hp300:
-.(bullet
-Switch NetBSD/hp300 to wscons with rasops.
-.It
-Add support for framebuffers on HP362 and HP382.
-.It
-Add support for Apollo Domain keyboard.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-hp700:
-.(bullet
-Added support for UFS2 boot.
-.It
-pmap update: Support PA 2.0 machines in 32 bit mode. Improve support for machines without the PA7100LC or PA7300LC CPUs.
-.It
-Added
-.Xr ucas 9
-support for hp700.
-.It
-com at dino now works.
-.It
-.Xr lcd 4 :
-Driver for hp700 lcds added.
-.It
-Add support for
-.Xr elroy 4 ,
-.Xr astro 4 ,
-and
-.Xr ssio 4
-based 64-bit machines running in 32-bit mode.
-.It
-Update
-.Xr sti 4
-and add
-.Xr pci 4
-attachment.
-.It
-Add support for HIL devices.
-.It
-Support added for machines with the uturn(4) I/O subsystem.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-hpcarm:
-.(bullet
-Add support for Sharp W-ZERO3 series.
-.It
-Use rtc_offset passed from hpcboot.
-.It
-Bump MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16.
-.It
-Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries.
-.It
-Improve console speed on W-ZERO3 machines using write through mapping for framebuffer memory.
-.It
-Improve install on JORNADA720.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-hpcmips:
-.(bullet
-Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-hpcsh:
-.(bullet
-Switch to using Xorg servers and binaries.
-.It
-Add
-.Xr sysinst 8
-support.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-landisk:
-.(bullet
-Added UFS2 boot support.
-.It
-Enable to build a bootable install disk image.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-luna68k:
-.(bullet
-Enable LUNA to load -current kernels director from firmware.
-.It
-Make SCSI work properly.
-.It
-Use the original OMRON font derived from 4.4BSD-Lite/luna68k rather than gallant19 which is used on Sun workstations.
-.It
-Complete LUNA-II support.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-mac68k:
-.(bullet
-Add timecounter support to the CSI Hurdler Centronics Parallel Interface
-.Xr cpi 4
-driver.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-macppc:
-.(bullet
-Support new-style
-.Xr module 7
-kernel modules.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-m68k ports (
-amiga,
-atari,
-cesfic,
-hp300,
-luna68k,
-mac68k,
-mvme68k,
-news68k,
-next68k,
-sun2,
-sun3,
-x68k):
-.(bullet
-Re-enable m68k optimized in_cksum routine.
-.It
-Support
-.Xr module 7
-loading.
-.It
-Fixed a regression in FPU_EMULATE code that caused weird
-.Xr awk 1
-behavior.
-.It
-Add hyperbotic and trigonometric functions to m68k FPE.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-mips ports (
-algor,
-arc,
-cobalt,
-emips,
-evbmips,
-ews4800,
-hpcmips,
-mipsco,
-newsmips,
-pmax,
-sbmips,
-sgimips):
-.(bullet
-Added support for 64-bit MIPS processors (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported).
-.It
-Added SMP support for MIPS architecture.
-.It
-Rewritten interrupt handling to be much more efficient, added "fast" software interrupts and kernel preemption.
-.It
-Converted MIPS to use PCU to manage FPU.
-.It
-Added MIPS32R2 and MIPS64R2 support.
-.It
-Rework Atheros MIPS-based SoC support. Add initial support for AR71xx (24K) and AR9344 (74K) SoCs
-.It
-Added support for ralink RT3883 SoC from CradlePoint Technologies.
-.It
-Added support for MIPS DSP v2 ASE.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-ofppc:
-.(bullet
-Support Gigabit Ethernet Controller for MV64361 on PegasosII.
-.It
-Support for RDB partitions.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-pmax:
-.(bullet
-Added UFS2 boot support.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-powerpc ports (
-amigappc,
-bebox,
-evbppc,
-ibmnws,
-macppc,
-mvmeppc,
-ofppc,
-pmppc,
-prep,
-rs6000,
-sandpoint,
-walnut):
-.(bullet
-Add support for using secure PLT (thereby allowing data and bss of powerpc programs and shared library to be set non-executable).
-.It
-Added support for Book E Freescale MPC85xx (e500 core) processors. Added "fast" software interrupts support and SOFTFLOAT for PowerPC (Book E only), reworked FPU/VEC support for e500 SPE, other improvements.
-.It
-Converted PowerPC to use PCU to manage FPU/AltiVec/SPE.
-.It
-Initial SMP support for MPC85xx, reworked and unified IPI code, various other improvements.
-.It
-Switch to using direct-mapped uareas (pcb + kernel stacks).
-.It
-The generic PIC code now supports Matt Thomas's fast softintr code.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-prep:
-.(bullet
-Support Xserver. Tested with on-board s3(864).
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-sandpoint:
-.(bullet
-Added support for Marvell-SKnet in netboot.
-.It
-D-Link DSM-G600 support.
-.It
-Add support for booting from RAID 1.
-.It
-Iomega Storcenter support.
-.It
-Netronix NH-230/231 and compatible NAS are supported.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-sgimips:
-.(bullet
-Added support for Personal IRIS 4D/20 and 4D/25 (IP6 and IP10).
-.It
-.Xr mec 4 :
-Added RX hardware checksum support on O2.
-.It
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-sh3ports (
-dreamcast,
-evbsh3,
-hpcsh,
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-.It
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-.Xr zx 4 :
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-Added support for
-.Xr module 7
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-.Xr wscons 4
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-.bullet)
-.
-.It
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-.It
-.Xr powsw 4 :
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.bullet)
.
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-.Xr pciback 4
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-.Xr xpci 4
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-.Xr balloon 4 :
-Balloon driver now enabled for all Xen kernels.
+Prevent a memory corruption issue that locks up a Xen DomU, and can potentially cause file system corruption. (
+PR#47056,:
+.Lk http://gnats.NetBSD.org/47056
+ PR#47057:
+.Lk http://gnats.NetBSD.org/47057
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-.It
-Provide experimental support for suspend/resume in NetBSD domUs.
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-Enable no-execute bit feature for i386pae and amd64 kernels.
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-Added support for feature-flush-cache in block device backend, used in block device frontend for DIOCCACHESYNC.
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.bullet)
.
-.It
-zaurus:
-.(bullet
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-.It
-Added playback and recording support to
-.Xr zaudio 4 .
-.It
-Add Xorg support.
-.It
-Add ioexp driver for SL-C1000.
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-.bullet)
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-.bullet)
-.
-.Ss2 Userland
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-.bullet)
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-.Xr strptime 3 ,
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-.Xr strftime 3 .
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-.Xr getline 3 .
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-.Xr posix_spawn 3 .
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.bullet)
.
-.It
-libm: Add f{dim,max,min}{,f,l} from FreeBSD.
-.It
-Replaced termcap with
-.Xr terminfo 3 .
-.It
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-.Xr rump 3
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-.It
-Added support for remote system calls.
-.It
-Add IPv6 support to rumpnet.
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-Support kernel config framework and devices in rumpdev.
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-rumpfs: support registering exernal files which are accessed from the host OS file system namespace instead of from within the rump virtual kernel.
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-rumpvfs: Use the unmodified kernel vnode pager.
-.bullet)
-.
-.It
-.Xr bluetooth 3 :
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-.bullet)
-.
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-.(bullet
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-.Xr wapbl 4
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-.Xr puffs 4
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-.Xr dkctl 8 :
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-.Xr ar 1 :
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-.Xr mtree 8 :
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-.Xr rpcgen 1 :
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-.Xr unzip 1 :
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-.Xr apropos 1 :
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-.Xr audiocfg 1 :
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-.Xr devpubd 8 :
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-.Xr disklabel 8 :
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-.Xr dkctl 8 :
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-.Xr ifconfig 8 :
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-.Xr man 1 :
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-.Xr mkubootimage 1 :
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-.bullet)
-.
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-.Pp
-In this release of NetBSD, the following software components have been removed from the system. Some were not useful anymore, or their utility did not justify the maintenance overhead. Others were not working properly and there was a lack of interest in fixing them.
+.Ss2 Userland changes
.(bullet
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-Support for LKMs (Loadable Kernel Modules) was dropped; use the new
-.Xr module 7
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-.Dq softdep
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-.Xr wapbl 4
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-.It
-The
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-.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/playstation2/
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-.It
-tn3270 was removed from base; it is available in pkgsrc.
-.It
-Support for Darwin, Mach, IRIX and PECOFF emulation was retired.
+Address graphics corruption in recent Cairo, manifested most commonly by certain rendered text sections appearing as solid rectangular blocks of color.
.bullet)
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-.Xr dhclient 8
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-.Xr rtsol 8
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-.Xr dhcpcd 8 .
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-.Xr kame_ipsec 4
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-.Nx
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-.bullet)
-.
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