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acpi_toshiba(4) video switching support,
	getvfsent(3) removed,
	sx driver added,
	pci(4) bus resource and power management updated,
	per-interface polling(4) support,
	ata(4) early support for Promise SX4/SX4000,
	dump(8) and restore(8) -P option,
	make(1) .warning directive,
	ACPI-CA 20040402 import, and
	CVS 1.11.15 import.

Update release note:
	Use &man.twa.4;.
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to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports
video output switching.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
@ -204,6 +207,8 @@
removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver.</para>
<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
@ -211,6 +216,9 @@
This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device
<varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables
@ -347,6 +355,17 @@
<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
been updated.
<note>
<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
has been enabled, it may cause problems on some systems.
This can be disabled by setting the tunable
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to 0.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
@ -365,6 +384,13 @@
<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
<para>The per-interface &man.polling.4; support has been
implemented. Currently &man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;,
&man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;,
&man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;
support this capability and it can be controlled
via &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
@ -420,6 +446,18 @@
work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
resolved.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command
sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers
(PDC203** PDC206**).
<note>
<para>This also adds preliminary support for the
Promise SX4/SX4000 as a <quote>normal</quote> Promise ATA
controller; ATA RAID's are supported though
but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
@ -430,7 +468,7 @@
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
@ -493,6 +531,14 @@
removed from the &os; base system, and has been available
in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support
a <option>-P</option> option to specify backup methods
other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to
a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either
<varname>$DUMP_VOLUME</varname> or <varname>$RESTORE_VOLUME</varname>
defined in the environment, respectively.
For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
@ -567,7 +613,10 @@
utilities do not work with
<filename>libpthread</filename>.</para>
</note>
<para>
</para>
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
directive.</para>
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
@ -690,18 +739,14 @@
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040311 snapshot.</para>
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot.</para>
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
release.</para>
<para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application>
1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain
malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using
<command>cvs pserver</command> mode, attempts to authenticate as
<username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via
&man.syslog.3;.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15.</para>
<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been

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to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports
video output switching.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
@ -204,6 +207,8 @@
removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver.</para>
<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
@ -211,6 +216,9 @@
This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device
<varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> environment variables
@ -347,6 +355,17 @@
<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
been updated.
<note>
<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
has been enabled, it may cause problems on some systems.
This can be disabled by setting the tunable
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to 0.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
@ -365,6 +384,13 @@
<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
<para>The per-interface &man.polling.4; support has been
implemented. Currently &man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;,
&man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;,
&man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;
support this capability and it can be controlled
via &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
@ -420,6 +446,18 @@
work better, and some problems with timeouts should be
resolved.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command
sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers
(PDC203** PDC206**).
<note>
<para>This also adds preliminary support for the
Promise SX4/SX4000 as a <quote>normal</quote> Promise ATA
controller; ATA RAID's are supported though
but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
@ -430,7 +468,7 @@
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The twa driver, which supports
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
@ -493,6 +531,14 @@
removed from the &os; base system, and has been available
in the &os; Ports Collection instead.</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support
a <option>-P</option> option to specify backup methods
other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to
a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either
<varname>$DUMP_VOLUME</varname> or <varname>$RESTORE_VOLUME</varname>
defined in the environment, respectively.
For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;.</para>
<para arch="pc98">The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and
&man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98.</para>
@ -567,7 +613,10 @@
utilities do not work with
<filename>libpthread</filename>.</para>
</note>
<para>
</para>
<para>&man.make.1; now supports the new <literal>.warning</literal>
directive.</para>
<para>Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently
supported system locales has been added. This is primarily
@ -690,18 +739,14 @@
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040311 snapshot.</para>
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot.</para>
<para><application>awk</application> from Bell Labs has been
updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004
release.</para>
<para>Security improvements from <application>CVS</application>
1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain
malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using
<command>cvs pserver</command> mode, attempts to authenticate as
<username>root</username> are rejected and recorded via
&man.syslog.3;.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been updated from
version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15.</para>
<para><application>gdtoa</application> (a library that performs
conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been