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Some grammar/language improvements, more to come. Also note some

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<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for HPET time counter.</para>
<para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter.</para>
<para>&man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports for setting the fan control
<para>The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control
mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the
fan control mode is manual. Note that manual control of the fan speed
needs to set a sysctl variable
<varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname>
to zero (manual) with extreme precaution.
This is because disabling automatic fan control might
fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed,
the sysctl variable <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname>
needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with
extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might
overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show lock</literal>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show lock</literal>
command. If the argument has a valid lock class,
this displays various information about the lock and calls a
new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific
information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or
xlock'ed sx lock).</para>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show sleepq</literal>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show sleepq</literal>
command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks
for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para>
<para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple
<literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> does not return
<para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple
<literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> sequence does not return
descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows
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<para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been
added. For each child process whose status has been changed,
a SIGCHLD instance is queued, if the signal is stilling pending,
and process changed status several times, signal information
is updated to reflect latest process status.
a SIGCHLD instance is queued. If the signal is still pending,
and the process changed status several times, the signal information
is updated to reflect the latest process status.
There is a loader tunable <varname>kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild</varname>
which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the
<literal>SIGCHLD</literal> queuing feature.</para>
@ -224,20 +223,20 @@
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn</varname>
has been removed. Instead the <varname>brandinfo</varname>
structure has been extended to be able to have
structure has been extended to be able to provide the
<literal>BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN</literal> flag for all brands that usually
allow executing ELF dynamic binaries.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.forcesigexit</varname>
has been added. This forces a process
to sigexit if a trap signal is being hold by current thread or
ignored by current process and is enabled by default.</para>
to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or
ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para>
<para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's &man.malloc.9;
has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and
<para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9;
facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and
buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;,
and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where
it was freed. For more details, see &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para>
it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal</varname>
which makes all network interfaces be created with the label
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<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports
passive cooling.</para>
passive cooling. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports
<filename>/dev/cardbus<replaceable>%d</replaceable>.cis</filename>.</para>
<para>The &man.ce.4; driver, which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters,
has been added.</para>
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3
processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem.
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<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers,
has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;.</para>
has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE.</para>

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<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for HPET time counter.</para>
<para>&man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter.</para>
<para>&man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports for setting the fan control
<para>The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control
mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the
fan control mode is manual. Note that manual control of the fan speed
needs to set a sysctl variable
<varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname>
to zero (manual) with extreme precaution.
This is because disabling automatic fan control might
fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed,
the sysctl variable <varname>dev.acpi_ibm.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.fan</varname>
needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with
extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might
overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage.</para>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show lock</literal>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show lock</literal>
command. If the argument has a valid lock class,
this displays various information about the lock and calls a
new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific
information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or
xlock'ed sx lock).</para>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; now supports <literal>show sleepq</literal>
<para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the <literal>show sleepq</literal>
command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks
for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel.</para>
<para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple
<literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> does not return
<para>A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple
<literal>close(0); dup(fd)</literal> sequence does not return
descriptor <literal>0</literal> in some cases, has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows
@ -204,9 +203,9 @@
<para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been
added. For each child process whose status has been changed,
a SIGCHLD instance is queued, if the signal is stilling pending,
and process changed status several times, signal information
is updated to reflect latest process status.
a SIGCHLD instance is queued. If the signal is still pending,
and the process changed status several times, the signal information
is updated to reflect the latest process status.
There is a loader tunable <varname>kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild</varname>
which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the
<literal>SIGCHLD</literal> queuing feature.</para>
@ -224,20 +223,20 @@
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn</varname>
has been removed. Instead the <varname>brandinfo</varname>
structure has been extended to be able to have
structure has been extended to be able to provide the
<literal>BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN</literal> flag for all brands that usually
allow executing ELF dynamic binaries.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>kern.forcesigexit</varname>
has been added. This forces a process
to sigexit if a trap signal is being hold by current thread or
ignored by current process and is enabled by default.</para>
to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or
ignored by the current process and is enabled by default.</para>
<para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's &man.malloc.9;
has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and
<para>RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9;
facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and
buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;,
and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where
it was freed. For more details, see &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para>
it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page.</para>
<para>A new sysctl variable <varname>security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal</varname>
which makes all network interfaces be created with the label
@ -305,13 +304,13 @@
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para>The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports
passive cooling.</para>
passive cooling. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports
<filename>/dev/cardbus<replaceable>%d</replaceable>.cis</filename>.</para>
<para>The &man.ce.4; driver, which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters,
has been added.</para>
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3
processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem.
@ -409,7 +408,7 @@
<para arch="i386,amd64">The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom
NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers,
has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;.</para>
has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE.</para>