mirror/freebsd
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git synced 2025-01-19 15:33:56 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Activity

New release notes: MemGuard, psm(4) improved Synaptics Touchpad

Browse Source 
support, hme(4) MPSAFE (+MFC), random port number allocation fix,
IPX/SPX locking, gshsec(8), dump(8) -n, some ipfw(8) abbreviated
options deprecated, libarchive ISO and ZIP support, rpmatch(3),
telnet(1)/telnetd(8) -S, manpage cleanup.

MFCs noted:  cd9660 less chatty,

Modified release notes: Fix typo (s/icss/ichss/) [1], add missing
"driver" in a couple of notes.

Submitted by:	njl [1]
This commit is contained in:
Bruce A. Mah 2005-02-21 20:19:03 +00:00
parent 5f26dd38c6
commit bf8d17f462
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=142185
2 changed files with 146 additions and 12 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

79
release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
View File

@ -116,6 +116,12 @@
<para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname> has been
has been enabled by default.</para>
<para>MemGuard, a kernel memory allocator designed to help detect
<quote>tamper-after-free</quote> scenarios, has been added.
This must be explicitly enabled via <literal>options
DEBUG_MEMGUARD</literal>, plus small kernel modifications. It
is generally intended for use by kernel developers.</para>
<para>A number of bugs have been fixed in the ULE
scheduler. &merged;</para>
@ -149,20 +155,27 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>A framework for flexible processor speed control has been
added. It provides methods for various drivers to control CPU
power utilization by adjusting the processor speed. More
details can be found in the &man.cpufreq.4; manual page.
Currently supported drivers include acpi_perf (ACPI CPU
performance states), icss (Intel SpeedStep for ICH), and
performance states), ichss (Intel SpeedStep for ICH), and
acpi_throttle (ACPI CPU throttling).</para>
<para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has
been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD
device support.</para>
<para>The &man.uplcom.4; now supports handling of the
<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
buttons and dials. These features can be tuned with the
<varname>hw.psm.synaptics.<replaceable>*</replaceable></varname>
hierarchy of sysctl variables.</para>
<para>The &man.uplcom.4; driver now supports handling of the
<literal>CTS</literal> signal.</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
@ -184,7 +197,9 @@
the kernel configuration when using the &man.ath.4;
driver.</para>
<para>The &man.dc.4; now supports the &man.altq.4; framework.</para>
<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now supports the &man.altq.4; framework.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now
supports &windows;/x86-64 binaries on amd64
@ -232,6 +247,24 @@
<para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed.</para>
<para>Random ephemeral port number allocation has led to some
problems with port reuse at high connection rates. This
feature is now disabled during periods of high connection
rates; whenever new connections are created faster than
<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomcps</varname> per second,
port number randomization is disabled for the next
<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomtime</varname>
seconds. The default values for these two sysctl variables
are <literal>10</literal> and <literal>45</literal>,
respectively.</para>
<para>Fine-grained locking has been applied to many of the data
structures in the IPX/SPX protocol stack. While not fully
MPSAFE at this point, it is generally safe to use IPX/SPX
without the Giant lock (in other words, the
<varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set
to <literal>1</literal>).</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -240,6 +273,12 @@
<para>The &man.amr.4; driver is now safe for use on systems
using &man.pae.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The SHSEC GEOM class has been added. It provides for the
sharing of a secret between multiple GEOM providers. All of
these providers must be present in order to reveal the
secret. This feature is controlled by the &man.gshsec.8;
utility.</para>
<para>The &man.matcd.4; driver has been removed.</para>
<para>The default SCSI boot-time probe delay in the
@ -255,7 +294,7 @@
as the presence of Rockridge extensions) is now only printed
if the kernel was booted in verbose mode. This change was
made to reduce the amount of (generally unnecessary) kernel
log messages.</para>
log messages. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
@ -287,12 +326,29 @@
force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a
disk. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.dump.8; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
flag to suppress the creation of a <filename>.snap</filename>
directory on new file systems. This feature is intended for use
on memory or vnode file systems that will not require snapshot
support.</para>
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been restructured. It is
now more modular and flexible with respect to supporting
interface-specific functionality. The 802.11 support has been
updated to support recent changes to the 802.11 subsystem and
drivers.</para>
<para>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of &man.ipfw.8;
options has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr
indicated the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
is detected.</para>
<para>The <filename>libarchive</filename> library (as well as the
&man.tar.1; command that uses it) now has support for reading ISO
images (with optional RockRidge extensions) and ZIP archives
(with <literal>deflate</literal> and <literal>none</literal>
compression).</para>
<para>The <literal>NO_NIS</literal> compile-time knob for userland
has been added. As its name implies, enabling this
<filename>Makefile</filename> variable will cause NIS support to
@ -336,6 +392,14 @@
failure. It is now necessary to specify <command>enable
echo</command> to get this behavior. &merged;</para>
<para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check
a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the
current locale.</para>
<para>The &man.telnet.1; and &man.telnetd.8; programs now support
the <option>-S</option> option for specifying a numeric TOS
byte.</para>
<para>The &man.tcpdrop.8; command, which closes a selected TCP
connection, has been added. It was obtained from
OpenBSD.</para>
@ -398,7 +462,10 @@
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para></para>
<para>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of
cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references
are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are
now used throughout, and markup has been cleaned up.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>

79
release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
View File

@ -116,6 +116,12 @@
<para>The loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname> has been
has been enabled by default.</para>
<para>MemGuard, a kernel memory allocator designed to help detect
<quote>tamper-after-free</quote> scenarios, has been added.
This must be explicitly enabled via <literal>options
DEBUG_MEMGUARD</literal>, plus small kernel modifications. It
is generally intended for use by kernel developers.</para>
<para>A number of bugs have been fixed in the ULE
scheduler. &merged;</para>
@ -149,20 +155,27 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>A framework for flexible processor speed control has been
added. It provides methods for various drivers to control CPU
power utilization by adjusting the processor speed. More
details can be found in the &man.cpufreq.4; manual page.
Currently supported drivers include acpi_perf (ACPI CPU
performance states), icss (Intel SpeedStep for ICH), and
performance states), ichss (Intel SpeedStep for ICH), and
acpi_throttle (ACPI CPU throttling).</para>
<para arch="i386">Support for the OLDCARD subsystem has
been removed. The NEWCARD system is now used for all PCCARD
device support.</para>
<para>The &man.uplcom.4; now supports handling of the
<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
buttons and dials. These features can be tuned with the
<varname>hw.psm.synaptics.<replaceable>*</replaceable></varname>
hierarchy of sysctl variables.</para>
<para>The &man.uplcom.4; driver now supports handling of the
<literal>CTS</literal> signal.</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
@ -184,7 +197,9 @@
the kernel configuration when using the &man.ath.4;
driver.</para>
<para>The &man.dc.4; now supports the &man.altq.4; framework.</para>
<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now supports the &man.altq.4; framework.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.ndis.4; device driver wrapper now
supports &windows;/x86-64 binaries on amd64
@ -232,6 +247,24 @@
<para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed.</para>
<para>Random ephemeral port number allocation has led to some
problems with port reuse at high connection rates. This
feature is now disabled during periods of high connection
rates; whenever new connections are created faster than
<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomcps</varname> per second,
port number randomization is disabled for the next
<varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.randomtime</varname>
seconds. The default values for these two sysctl variables
are <literal>10</literal> and <literal>45</literal>,
respectively.</para>
<para>Fine-grained locking has been applied to many of the data
structures in the IPX/SPX protocol stack. While not fully
MPSAFE at this point, it is generally safe to use IPX/SPX
without the Giant lock (in other words, the
<varname>debug.mpsafenet</varname> sysctl variable may be set
to <literal>1</literal>).</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -240,6 +273,12 @@
<para>The &man.amr.4; driver is now safe for use on systems
using &man.pae.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The SHSEC GEOM class has been added. It provides for the
sharing of a secret between multiple GEOM providers. All of
these providers must be present in order to reveal the
secret. This feature is controlled by the &man.gshsec.8;
utility.</para>
<para>The &man.matcd.4; driver has been removed.</para>
<para>The default SCSI boot-time probe delay in the
@ -255,7 +294,7 @@
as the presence of Rockridge extensions) is now only printed
if the kernel was booted in verbose mode. This change was
made to reduce the amount of (generally unnecessary) kernel
log messages.</para>
log messages. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
@ -287,12 +326,29 @@
force creation of a GPT even when there is an MBR record on a
disk. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.dump.8; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
flag to suppress the creation of a <filename>.snap</filename>
directory on new file systems. This feature is intended for use
on memory or vnode file systems that will not require snapshot
support.</para>
<para>The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been restructured. It is
now more modular and flexible with respect to supporting
interface-specific functionality. The 802.11 support has been
updated to support recent changes to the 802.11 subsystem and
drivers.</para>
<para>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of &man.ipfw.8;
options has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr
indicated the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
is detected.</para>
<para>The <filename>libarchive</filename> library (as well as the
&man.tar.1; command that uses it) now has support for reading ISO
images (with optional RockRidge extensions) and ZIP archives
(with <literal>deflate</literal> and <literal>none</literal>
compression).</para>
<para>The <literal>NO_NIS</literal> compile-time knob for userland
has been added. As its name implies, enabling this
<filename>Makefile</filename> variable will cause NIS support to
@ -336,6 +392,14 @@
failure. It is now necessary to specify <command>enable
echo</command> to get this behavior. &merged;</para>
<para>An &man.rpmatch.3; library function has been added to check
a string for being an affirmative or negative response in the
current locale.</para>
<para>The &man.telnet.1; and &man.telnetd.8; programs now support
the <option>-S</option> option for specifying a numeric TOS
byte.</para>
<para>The &man.tcpdrop.8; command, which closes a selected TCP
connection, has been added. It was obtained from
OpenBSD.</para>
@ -398,7 +462,10 @@
<sect2 id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para></para>
<para>Manual pages in the base system have received a number of
cleanups, both for content and presentation. Cross-references
are more correct and consistent, standard section headings are
now used throughout, and markup has been cleaned up.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>