Commit Graph

427 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce A. Mah
32d91b0458 New release notes: kern.maxvnodes now works, VIA 82C686B Southbridge
fix.
2002-01-17 05:29:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f170350757 Update release note: kern.security.* sysctls have moved to
security.*.

Requested by:	arr
2002-01-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
24043ba7ec Move bootloader-related changes into a new sect3-level section
underneath the Kernel Changes.
2002-01-14 19:02:19 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
412b5b3d8c Release note deleted: sysinstall newfs blocksize parameters on
alpha.

MFCs noted:  Bootloaders support larger filesystem block sizes.
2002-01-14 15:46:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5535673fe8 New release notes: boot loaders support larger filesystem block
sizes, new sis(4) support, tcpd(8) now built and installed.
2002-01-14 03:59:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0fd08d1b33 Mention sis(4) support for SiS 635 and 735 motherboard chipsets. 2002-01-14 03:54:48 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4ab0ac1631 Rewrite the i386 processor support section. The old one was too
Intel-specific, and needed fleshing out.

PR:		33582
Reviewed by:	Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>,
		"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>,
		swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
MFC after:	1 day
2002-01-11 23:27:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b8f52f738a New release notes: syslogd(8) -c, less 371. 2002-01-08 19:59:54 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
2ab47b10e8 New release note: kernel/mfsroot split on installation CDs,
permitting the use of full kernels on CD installs.

MFC noted:  New sysinstall Auto settings and Recover space from
deleted autosize partitions.
2002-01-07 22:22:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
54cad77db1 New release note: On the alpha, sysinstall overrides the newfs block/frag
defaults for new filesystems it creates, to meet a boot1 assumption
about the block size of /.
2002-01-07 19:27:53 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
967375e92e MFS: Sync to 4-STABLE...wordsmithing and markup fixes, also mention
manpages as a source for further reading.

	article.sgml	1.1.2.9->1.1.2.10, 1.1.2.11->1.1.2.12
2002-01-06 17:17:55 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
bcac684164 New (but very overdue) release note: ata(4) 48-bit addressing.
MFC noted:  locale renaming.
2002-01-05 18:46:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f2185639f7 New release notes: SA-02:01, SA-02:02. 2002-01-05 06:07:17 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
53bb974408 We were right the first time...the HPT372 is an ATA133 controller.
Pointed out by:	Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
2002-01-04 21:55:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e54f2d6872 Fix (I think) a typo in the hardware list (HPT372 is ATA100 instead of
ATA133?).

MFC noted:  "more" chipsets supported by ata(4).
2002-01-03 23:24:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
adbd31cb47 New release notes (and hardware list updates): dc(4) support
for Xircom 3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112, ifpi(4).
2002-01-03 22:56:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7065a2fdeb Update copyright years. 2002-01-02 17:27:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
865bd13f4c MF4S: Minor wordsmithing and markup fixes. 2002-01-02 01:36:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
31ce46afbf New release note: network filesystems can now be listed in
/etc/fstab.

Submitted by:	sheldonh
2001-12-27 21:55:02 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5de25ed9b8 New release notes: pseudofs-ize procfs(5), libstand can write to UFS
filesystems, sysinstall(8) auto-partition updates.
2001-12-27 21:37:38 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
fb8f795e9b New release notes found while trying to catch-up RELENG_4 to reality:
whois(1) -c, pkg_delete -r, rc.conf(5) support for IPFilter state tables.
2001-12-27 21:18:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
c8c16add9a Add nsmb.conf to list of files that sysinstall preserves on an upgrade. 2001-12-27 19:59:57 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
25605152aa Remove unwanted(?) 0xa0 characters. 2001-12-27 03:18:24 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
5060d43190 Remove doubled "ability to" word. 2001-12-27 01:38:02 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0051ce2970 Flesh out cdboot release note a little bit, note MFC. 2001-12-26 23:41:20 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1bb0556ad5 New release note: ipfw(8) precedence matching.
Updated release note:  smbfs userland 1.4.3.
2001-12-26 23:27:54 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
54adcde6c0 Separate entries with blank line. 2001-12-26 14:01:17 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
ddd3b56f38 Fix unbalanced paren. 2001-12-25 13:40:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0d567ca509 MFCs noted: route(8) -ifa/-ifp, NTP 4.1.0. 2001-12-21 18:17:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9df826532b New release notes: sysinstall(8) now turns on Soft Updates by
default for new filesystems, fdc(4) update.
2001-12-21 02:27:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e45e83304a Add some remarks on em(4).
MFC noted:  NFS/VM fixes.
2001-12-20 21:33:54 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8ff661ddc9 Delete a release note regarding mergemaster(8) which, while true, was
too vague to be useful.
2001-12-20 19:45:14 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7750015a22 Modified release note: syncache with syncookies. 2001-12-20 17:42:49 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4225365e92 New release note: xl(4) bugfix.
Modified release notes:  UFS_DIRHASH now in GENERIC,

MFC noted:  libfetch auth callback.
2001-12-20 16:45:21 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6b32417d21 Update smbfs release note for module-loading.
MFCs noted:  sbni driver, id(1) handles groups(1) and whoami(1),
sysctl(8) -e.
2001-12-20 16:28:50 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
02f2c8a235 Clarify dirprefs release note. 2001-12-19 23:38:11 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cc29665926 MFC: ftpd(8) -o/-O.
Requested by:	sheldonh
2001-12-19 05:30:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
a52deb66b2 New release note: i386 performance enhancements for dc(4) and sis(4).
Suggested by:	luigi
2001-12-19 05:21:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8709e81edc The smbutils import really only applies to the i386...fix this
(noticed by sheldonh).  While I'm here, note its MFC, also add some
cross-references from the kernel part.
2001-12-18 16:26:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
59f2fc2ca4 New release note: Network device polling.
Modified release note:  Smaller local slowstart flightsize now that
buffers are larger.
2001-12-17 23:27:49 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
db87a77bd4 New release note: smbfs userland import.
Modified release notes:  bge(4) input checksum offload disabled,
ncv/nsp/stg modules.

MFCs noted:  bootloader -p
2001-12-17 21:32:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4bb107882e Second (hopefully last) alpha jumbo patch to remove i386-isms.
Reviewed by:	wilko
MFC after:	3 days
2001-12-15 19:57:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
142f8989bc New release notes: root filesystem on a SCSI CDROM, filesystem
bugs fixed.

MFCs noted:  em(4), faith(4) loadable/unloadable/clonable,
sis(4) VLAN support, interface capabilities, IP address hash
table, syn cache, newfs(8) defaults.
2001-12-15 06:48:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0c9755a23b Whitespace and capitalization fixes to sync with RELENG_4. 2001-12-14 04:29:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
247e80274d New release note: lukemftp. 2001-12-14 01:14:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d337b6b915 New release notes: boot loader -p for i386, maxusers autosizing,
burncd(8) for VCDs/SVCDs, newfs(8) new 16K/2K block/frag defaults,
watch(8) -f.

Updated release note: sis(4) VAN and note its MFC done a long time
ago.
2001-12-13 21:18:56 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9c6df0fa68 Fix missing semi-colons on some entity references. 2001-12-13 18:12:12 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f84dad7122 MFCs noted: isic(4) support for Compaq Microcom 610 ISDN,
isdnphone(8) -k.
2001-12-13 06:39:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6c27cf4a68 Grrr...TCP bugfixes don't belong in the filesystems section. Toss
another pointy hat into my pile in the corner.
2001-12-13 06:03:08 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5c020918b4 MFCs noted: vlan(4) devices now (un)loadable and clonable, ciss
driver.
2001-12-13 06:01:01 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0312bfaed9 Move some notes inside the paragraphs for the hardware they describe. 2001-12-12 23:22:34 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ede55da024 New release note: jail sysctl variables moved.
Submitted by:	arr
2001-12-12 15:31:19 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e581388480 Make manpage links for 5.0-CURRENT release documents explicitly access the
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT manpages on the Web site, instead of pointing at
the (possibly wrong) default manpages.

MFC after:	3 days
2001-12-11 23:55:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e25076d79c Reword "OpenSSH UseLogin yes" item, with cross-reference to
security advisory.
2001-12-04 17:27:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
29bec00a2d Back out the part of the previous commit that dealt with network device
polling (it isn't in CURRENT yet, as pointed out by rwatson).

New release note:  TCP stalls fixed.
2001-12-04 17:20:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
c1b1b5019b New release notes: em(4), network device polling, ata(4) improved
SiS chipset support, OpenSSH UseLogin yes fix.
2001-12-04 15:15:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
fdd5b232b2 New release note: send-pr(1) -a (+ MFC).
MFC noted:  Increased TCP sndspace/rcvspace defaults.
2001-11-30 21:37:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5b9f1319fe Reword pciconf(8) -v release to be a little more useful (now that I
understand what it does), move it to the userland section, and note MFC.
2001-11-29 23:41:14 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
acd844e79d New release notes: ciss driver, sbni driver.
(Hardware list updated accordingly.)
2001-11-29 23:24:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
57d484c8cc Bring release note on /dev/net into line with reality. 2001-11-29 19:00:16 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5393fef692 Alphabetize the "Disks and Storage" section of the release notes. No
content changes.
2001-11-28 23:32:24 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7b7ab09d93 Update release notes: ACPI imported version. 2001-11-28 23:27:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ef2b805fcf New release note: TCP syncache. 2001-11-26 20:06:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1c8653816e New release note: sh(1) now implements test as a built-in command, also
no longer has printf as a built-in.

Submitted by:		knu
2001-11-26 06:00:28 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d90753c548 Lose the line listing CD-{R,RW} drives. Listing these few devices is
not particularly helpful, since there are many drives that work with
FreeBSD.

Submitted by:	wilko
2001-11-26 00:26:10 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f36f107163 First alpha cleanup-patch to try to reduce the amount of hardware
that shows up on non-i386 hardware lists "by default" (because no
set of hardware platforms was explicitly listed).

Reviewed by:	-alpha

Contributions from:	Rolf Neugebauer <neugebar@dcs.gla.ac.uk>,
			wilko, jhb
2001-11-26 00:24:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
562ee0864c Add attribution for lomac(4) feature.
Requested by:	rwatson
2001-11-26 00:17:50 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
43f5f1d6ac New release note: lomac(4). 2001-11-21 20:05:05 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e19ee8d3f1 New release notes: debugging info in modules built with debugging
kernel (based on info from gad), timed(8) works on alpha.
2001-11-21 20:04:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
09088b1d15 Remove config.sgml from dependencies. Forgot this in my last commit. 2001-11-17 20:53:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f220e10788 No UserConfig under -CURRENT (at least so I've been led to believe)
so take out the text that discusses it.
2001-11-17 20:28:44 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
101acc33fa New release notes: timezone database update, Linux emulation update
for linux_base-7 port.
2001-11-17 00:44:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0721252ad2 New release notes: IPFilter supports IPv6, ipfs(8).
Reminded by:	devet@devet.org (Arjan de Vet)
2001-11-16 01:48:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e4caab2649 New release notes: Jitter in load average computation, newsyslog(8)
support for bzip2(1).

MFCs noted:  gx(4), edquota(8) -f.
2001-11-15 19:32:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f1dcc7f929 Catch up on old release notes: fxp(4) dynamic standby mode workaround,
keyinfo(1) in C.

MFC noted:  fxp(4) interrupt coalescing/packet bundling.
2001-11-07 20:30:12 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
b73ada49cd Fixes:
* least -> list
  * recommendations -> recommended
2001-11-06 21:34:11 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
d32cbf82df Fixes:
* acceptible -> acceptable
  * partiton -> partition
  * bootdisk -> boot disk
  * harddisk -> hard disk
  * it's -> its
  * bandwith -> bandwidth
  * website -> web site
2001-11-06 21:32:02 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
4fe50cca4b Typo: compatability -> compatibility 2001-11-06 21:27:30 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
60cd7e2378 Fixes:
* compatability -> compatibility
  * El Torrito -> El Torito
  * repectively -> respectively
2001-11-06 21:26:13 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
1c49be7139 website -> web site 2001-11-06 21:24:59 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
56bb3c0e58 Fix typo:
* compatability -> compatibility
2001-11-06 21:23:28 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
f4f9b0ead3 Fix typos:
* initialise -> initialize
  * maintenence -> maintenance
  * manufacured -> manufactured
  * accomodate -> accommodate
2001-11-06 21:21:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b1b863c1b2 Fix typo: s/dirver/driver/ 2001-11-06 19:48:22 +00:00
Murray Stokely
6c412638de Add the Farallon NetLINE 10/100 PCI to the list of cards supported by
rl(4).

PR:		docs/31270
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
2001-11-05 09:17:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
daa67917a6 New release notes: pmc driver, new loader tunables, ipfw(8) limit.
Updated release note:  bridge(4) and dummynet(4) are loadable modules.
2001-11-05 00:30:47 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
2ad0f3c5f6 Note MFC of vmiodirenable=1. 2001-11-05 00:16:30 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
45c9c28475 New release notes: gawk 3.1.0
Updated release notes:  ACPI update and APM compatability, binutils
update.

Deleted release notes:  awk from Bell Labs.
2001-11-04 23:57:37 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d4d3eb2a11 Add more ata(4) controllers supported. 2001-11-04 23:43:50 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
043f2faeae Alpha now has a TGA-capable console driver. 2001-11-01 19:07:33 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
b3e9616ae8 TGA based display adapters are now supported. 2001-11-01 19:01:11 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
eb60ca1b24 Document RMC for DS[12]0 2001-10-31 19:08:53 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
38696bb465 MFC noted: ipfw(8) -d/-e (plus small typo fix). 2001-10-31 16:47:55 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1accdac67a New release notes: de(4) round-robin transmit/receive, ng_eth(4),
sysctl(8) -e.
2001-10-31 16:39:00 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cd0616d7c8 Resequence network protocols section.
Some ipfw(8) and ip6fw(8) items were mistakenly put here; move them
to the userland area.

No content or markup changes.
2001-10-30 20:25:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cec6e88146 New release notes: gprof(1) -K, tip(1) update and cu(1) substitute,
awk from Bell Labs replaces GNU awk.

Updated release note:  UUCP removal.

Delete release note:  GNU awk update.
2001-10-30 20:19:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e5217bf6e8 Group ed(4) entries together. 2001-10-30 19:49:17 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
94216379e3 More reorganization of 3Com devices. While I'm here, add some
devices (gleaned from comments in driver source files) supported
by xl(4).
2001-10-29 22:31:22 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ce249ef355 Add infrastructure for an ia64 hardware list. It's a long way from
being usable at this point, so it's not even hooked up to the rest
of the RELNOTESng build; however it will be helpful for testing the content
as it approaches reality.
2001-10-29 05:08:52 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ff237c89e4 Start to unravel some of the mess in the Ethernet NIC section. The
original hardware list was mostly organized by driver except for the
case of NICs by Intel, DEC, and 3Com, whose NICs tended to be
organized by manufacturer.  Most of these entries are now organized by
driver, except for a few 3Com NICs; also the multitude of ed(4)
drivers needs to be coalesced.

While I'm here, fix a markup glitch in the ISDN section that caused
any non-i386 hardware list to be incorrectly numbered.
2001-10-29 04:45:08 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e75dab473d Clarify a release note entry about fe(4)-supported PC Cards. 2001-10-29 04:14:40 +00:00