From 0f9537839b6c1186ba7f9d21fb5245d798602163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hiroki Sato Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:38:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release note: 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;. --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 63 ++++++++++++++++--- .../en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 63 ++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 498ae3c0420a..d34f6c0ed0ce 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops. + The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports + video output switching. + The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions. @@ -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. + The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed. + The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership. @@ -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. + The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ + intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added. + For the &man.uart.4; device hw.uart.console and hw.uart.dbgport environment variables @@ -347,6 +355,17 @@ A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver from working has been fixed. &merged; + The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have + been updated. + + + 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 + hw.pci.do_powerstate to 0. + + + Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged; @@ -365,6 +384,13 @@ 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; + + 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;. @@ -420,6 +446,18 @@ work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved. + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command + sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers + (PDC203** PDC206**). + + + This also adds preliminary support for the + Promise SX4/SX4000 as a normal Promise ATA + controller; ATA RAID's are supported though + but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1. + + + A bug of the automatic density selection code in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed. @@ -430,7 +468,7 @@ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly, has been fixed. - The twa driver, which supports + The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged; 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. + &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support + a option to specify backup methods + other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to + a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either + $DUMP_VOLUME or $RESTORE_VOLUME + defined in the environment, respectively. + For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;. + The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98. @@ -567,7 +613,10 @@ utilities do not work with libpthread. - + + + &man.make.1; now supports the new .warning + directive. Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has been added. This is primarily @@ -690,18 +739,14 @@ Contributed Software The ACPI-CA code has been updated - from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040311 snapshot. + from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot. awk from Bell Labs has been updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 release. - Security improvements from CVS - 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain - malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using - cvs pserver mode, attempts to authenticate as - root are rejected and recorded via - &man.syslog.3;. + CVS has been updated from + version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15. gdtoa (a library that performs conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 498ae3c0420a..d34f6c0ed0ce 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops. + The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports + video output switching. + The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide control display switching and backlight brightness using the ACPI Video Extensions. @@ -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. + The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed. + The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership. @@ -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. + The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ + intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added. + For the &man.uart.4; device hw.uart.console and hw.uart.dbgport environment variables @@ -347,6 +355,17 @@ A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver from working has been fixed. &merged; + The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have + been updated. + + + 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 + hw.pci.do_powerstate to 0. + + + Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged; @@ -365,6 +384,13 @@ 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; + + 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;. @@ -420,6 +446,18 @@ work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved. + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the Promise command + sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers + (PDC203** PDC206**). + + + This also adds preliminary support for the + Promise SX4/SX4000 as a normal Promise ATA + controller; ATA RAID's are supported though + but only RAID0, RAID1 and RAID0+1. + + + A bug of the automatic density selection code in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed. @@ -430,7 +468,7 @@ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly, has been fixed. - The twa driver, which supports + The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged; 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. + &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8; now support + a option to specify backup methods + other than files and tapes. The argument is passed to + a normal &man.sh.1; pipeline with either + $DUMP_VOLUME or $RESTORE_VOLUME + defined in the environment, respectively. + For more information, see &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;. + The &man.fdcontrol.8;, &man.fdformat.1;, and &man.fdread.1; utilities now work on &os;/pc98. @@ -567,7 +613,10 @@ utilities do not work with libpthread. - + + + &man.make.1; now supports the new .warning + directive. Initial support for UTF-8 versions of all the currently supported system locales has been added. This is primarily @@ -690,18 +739,14 @@ Contributed Software The ACPI-CA code has been updated - from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040311 snapshot. + from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20040402 snapshot. awk from Bell Labs has been updated from the 29 July 2003 release to the 7 February 2004 release. - Security improvements from CVS - 1.11.10 and 1.11.11 have been backported. Specifically, certain - malformed module requests are now rejected, and when using - cvs pserver mode, attempts to authenticate as - root are rejected and recorded via - &man.syslog.3;. + CVS has been updated from + version 1.11.10 to version 1.11.15. gdtoa (a library that performs conversions of numbers between binary and decimal form) has been