svn commit: r191505 - releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes

[Hiroki Sato]

Author: hrs
Date: Sun Apr 26 00:29:49 2009
New Revision: 191505
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191505

Log:
  Update release note:
  	boot0 volume ID and F6 PXE invoke support,
  	DHCP options via kenv,
  	cpuctl(4) added,
  	ciphy(4) VSC8211 support,
  	jme(4) newer JMC250/260 support,
  	rl(4) improved,
  	ata(4) Marvell PATA M88SX6121 support, and
  	config(8) multiple makeoption support.
  
  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	Sat Apr 25 23:40:20 2009	(r191504)
+++ releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml	Sun Apr 26 00:29:49 2009	(r191505)
@@ -212,13 +212,22 @@
       <sect3 id="boot">
 	<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 
-	<para></para>
+	<para>The &man.boot.8; now supports 4-byte volume ID that
+	  certain versions of Windows put into the MBR and invoking
+	  PXE by pressing F6 key on some supported BIOSes.</para>
+
+	<para>The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options
+	  via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot.</para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="proc">
 	<title>Hardware Support</title>
 
-	<para></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
+	  information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR) and
+	  perform CPU firmware updates.</para>
 
 	<sect4 id="mm">
 	  <title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -251,8 +260,15 @@
 	<sect4 id="net-if">
 	  <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 
-	  <para></para>
+	  <para>The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211
+	    PHY.</para>
 
+	  <para>The &man.jme.4; driver now supports newer JMicron
+	    JMC250/JMC260 revisions.</para>
+
+	  <para>The &man.rl.4; driver has been improved.  A bug which
+	    prevents it from working on systems with more than 4GB
+	    memory has been fixed.</para>
 	</sect4>
       </sect3>
 
@@ -271,6 +287,8 @@
       <sect3 id="disks">
 	<title>Disks and Storage</title>
 
+	<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121.</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>
@@ -293,6 +311,9 @@
     <sect2 id="userland">
       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 
+      <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports
+	multiple <varname>makeoption</varname> lines.</para>
+
       <para>The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an
 	<option>-i</option> flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP
 	request.</para>