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New release notes: boot loaders support larger filesystem block

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sizes, new sis(4) support, tcpd(8) now built and installed.
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Bruce A. Mah 2002-01-14 03:59:36 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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<option>-p</option> flag to force the kernel to pause after each
line of output during the probing phase. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &os; boot loader is now capable of
booting from filesystems with 16K disk blocks (the old limit was
8K).</para>
<para arch="alpha">The &os; boot loader is now capable of
booting from filesystems with block sizes larger than 8K.</para>
<para>Support for USB devices was added to the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel and to the installation
programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that SRM
@ -573,8 +580,10 @@
these devices. &merged;</para>
<para>Added support for PCI Ethernet adapters based on the
National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear
FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver.
SiS 900 and SiS 7016 Fast Ethernet controller chips (for
example, as seen on the SiS 635 and 735 motherboard chipsets), as well as the
National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset (including the NetGear
FA311-TX and FA312-TX) in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver.
This device has support for VLANs. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The snc driver for the National Semiconductor
@ -2487,6 +2496,14 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>tcsh</application> has been updated to version
6.11. &merged;</para>
<para>The contributed version of
<application>tcp_wrappers</application> now includes the
&man.tcpd.8; helper daemon. While not strictly necessary in a
standard &os; installation (because &man.inetd.8; already
incorporates this functionality), this may be useful for
&man.inetd.8; replacements such as
<application>xinetd</application>.</para>
<para>&man.traceroute.8; now takes its default maximum TTL value
from the <varname>net.inet.ip.ttl</varname> sysctl
variable. &merged;</para>

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<option>-p</option> flag to force the kernel to pause after each
line of output during the probing phase. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &os; boot loader is now capable of
booting from filesystems with 16K disk blocks (the old limit was
8K).</para>
<para arch="alpha">The &os; boot loader is now capable of
booting from filesystems with block sizes larger than 8K.</para>
<para>Support for USB devices was added to the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel and to the installation
programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that SRM
@ -573,8 +580,10 @@
these devices. &merged;</para>
<para>Added support for PCI Ethernet adapters based on the
National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear
FA311-TX and FA312-TX, in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver.
SiS 900 and SiS 7016 Fast Ethernet controller chips (for
example, as seen on the SiS 635 and 735 motherboard chipsets), as well as the
National Semiconductor DP83815 chipset (including the NetGear
FA311-TX and FA312-TX) in the form of the &man.sis.4; driver.
This device has support for VLANs. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The snc driver for the National Semiconductor
@ -2487,6 +2496,14 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<application>tcsh</application> has been updated to version
6.11. &merged;</para>
<para>The contributed version of
<application>tcp_wrappers</application> now includes the
&man.tcpd.8; helper daemon. While not strictly necessary in a
standard &os; installation (because &man.inetd.8; already
incorporates this functionality), this may be useful for
&man.inetd.8; replacements such as
<application>xinetd</application>.</para>
<para>&man.traceroute.8; now takes its default maximum TTL value
from the <varname>net.inet.ip.ttl</varname> sysctl
variable. &merged;</para>