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>
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