svn commit: r210435 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 23 22:00:20 UTC 2010
Author: hrs
Date: Fri Jul 23 22:00:19 2010
New Revision: 210435
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210435
Log:
Sort entries. Cosmetic changes only.
Modified:
stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
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--- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Jul 23 21:51:41 2010 (r210434)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Jul 23 22:00:19 2010 (r210435)
@@ -241,9 +241,6 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256
- of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para>
-
<para>A new kernel thread called <quote>deadlock
resolver</quote> has been added. This can be used to detect
possible deadlock by using information of thread state and
@@ -252,6 +249,9 @@
kernel configuration file and recompilation of the
kernel.</para>
+ <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256
+ of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para>
+
<para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added
to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para>
@@ -287,6 +287,17 @@
INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE</option> has been added to
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
+ <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the
+ timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the
+ wakeup has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented
+ process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly
+ has been fixed.</para>
+
<para>New SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) probes such as ones
for <literal>opencrypto</literal> and <literal>vnet</literal>
have been added to &os; &man.dtrace.1; subsystem.</para>
@@ -299,26 +310,15 @@
<para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and
SPARC64 V CPUs.</para>
- <para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that
- <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This
- affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the
- timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the
- wakeup has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented
- 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>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that
+ <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This
+ affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</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;.
@@ -355,17 +355,17 @@
<para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports
U-Boot storage.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has
+ been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when
+ using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the
+ loader fails to load a kernel.</para>
+
<para>A kernel environment variable
<varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports
multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated
list. Each list element will be tried in order and the
first available one will be mounted.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has
- been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when
- using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the
- loader fails to load a kernel.</para>
-
<para>The <filename>zfsloader</filename> has been added. This
is a separate &man.zfs.8; enabled loader. Note that a ZFS
bootcode (<filename>zfsboot</filename> or
@@ -402,6 +402,25 @@
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>
+
+ <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel
+ from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by
+ <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send
+ a zero length packet has been fixed.</para>
+
<para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8;
<literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties
instead of <literal>attach</literal> events. The following is an
@@ -418,21 +437,6 @@
action "/path/to/command -flag";
};</programlisting>
- <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>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send
- a zero length packet has been fixed.</para>
-
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -457,10 +461,6 @@
operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;. Note
that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all
ports.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel
- from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by
- <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para>
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
@@ -520,12 +520,12 @@
<filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not
compilied by default.</para>
- <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum
- offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para>
-
<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version
7.0.0.</para>
+ <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum
+ offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para>
+
<para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC
statistics via sysctl variables.</para>
@@ -881,18 +881,22 @@
&man.cam.3; to wait, while CD drive loads disk, instead
of immediately return error status.</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
- Power-Up In Stand-by (PUIS). The PUIS is a configuration of
- SATA or PATA drives to prevent them from automatic spin-up
- when power is applied. A typical application is staggered
- spin-up.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
- negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as
- device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to
- Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
+ Power-Up In Stand-by (PUIS). The PUIS is a configuration of
+ SATA or PATA drives to prevent them from automatic spin-up
+ when power is applied. A typical application is staggered
+ spin-up.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The &man.cam.4; ATA transport layer now supports
+ negotiating and enabling additional SATA features such as
+ device initiated power management, Automatic Partial to
+ Slumber mode transition, and DMA auto-activation.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
<para>A livelock issue of the &man.ciss.4; driver under a high
load has been fixed.</para>
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