diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index c8098ca5d126..58e0414a445d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -226,14 +226,12 @@ Kernel Changes The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added - to use ACPI-controlled hardware features such as hot keys and - LCD on ASUSTek laptops. + to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and + LEDs on ASUSTek laptops. The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate - certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops. - - The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports + certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as video output switching. The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide @@ -245,13 +243,13 @@ for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given device can wake the system. - The &man.acpi.4; driver has been updated to - be disabled automatically when the machine has well-known broken BIOS. - This behavior can be disabled by setting a loader tunable + The &man.acpi.4; driver will now + be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS. + This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable hint.acpi.0.disabled to 0. - The &man.bus.dma.9; now supports transparently honoring - the alignment and boundary constraints in the dma tag + The &man.bus.dma.9; interface now supports transparently honoring + the alignment and boundary constraints in the DMA tag when loading buffers, and bus_dmamap_load() will automatically use bounce buffers when needed. In addition, a set of sysctls hw.busdma.* @@ -293,7 +291,7 @@ events to the user space. Currently, mount, unmount, and up/down status of NFS are signaled. - KDB, a new debugger framework has been added. + KDB, a new debugger framework, has been added. This consists of a new GDB backend, which has been rewritten to support threading, run-length encoding compression, and so on, and the frontend that provides a framework in which multiple, different @@ -304,7 +302,7 @@ KDB is enabled by default - via a kernel option options KDB, + via the kernel options options KDB, options GDB, and options DDB. Both DDB and GDB specify which KDB backends to include. @@ -340,7 +338,7 @@ - The KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and + KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and all code that wants to make use of the debugger functions, such as entering the debugger or handling of the alternate break sequence. @@ -378,17 +376,17 @@ A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as PROT_NONE may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. &merged; - &man.nmdm.4; has been rewritten to improve the reliability. + &man.nmdm.4; has been rewritten to improve its reliability. - The raid(4), RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD has been removed. - This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work + The raid(4) driver (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed. + It 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 &man.pcm.4; driver has been modified to read /boot/device.hints on startup, to allow setting of default values for mixer channels. - The &man.sab.4; now supports + The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER kernel option. The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized; @@ -396,7 +394,7 @@ and device snd_* are device-specific sound drivers. The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ - intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added. + intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added. A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree, in order to support per-class variables in addition to @@ -410,9 +408,9 @@ has been moved to kern.sched.quantum for consistency. - For the &man.uart.4; device - hw.uart.console and - hw.uart.dbgport environment variables + For the &man.uart.4; device, + the hw.uart.console and + hw.uart.dbgport kernel environment variables have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and debug port respectively, as well as the attributes. @@ -448,7 +446,7 @@ interfaces named stf0, stf, or 6to4. Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example, - now ifconfig stf creates + ifconfig stf now creates the interface named stf, not stf0, and does not print stf0 to stdout. 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 c8098ca5d126..58e0414a445d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -226,14 +226,12 @@ Kernel Changes The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added - to use ACPI-controlled hardware features such as hot keys and - LCD on ASUSTek laptops. + to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and + LEDs on ASUSTek laptops. The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate - certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops. - - The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver now supports + certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as video output switching. The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide @@ -245,13 +243,13 @@ for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given device can wake the system. - The &man.acpi.4; driver has been updated to - be disabled automatically when the machine has well-known broken BIOS. - This behavior can be disabled by setting a loader tunable + The &man.acpi.4; driver will now + be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS. + This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable hint.acpi.0.disabled to 0. - The &man.bus.dma.9; now supports transparently honoring - the alignment and boundary constraints in the dma tag + The &man.bus.dma.9; interface now supports transparently honoring + the alignment and boundary constraints in the DMA tag when loading buffers, and bus_dmamap_load() will automatically use bounce buffers when needed. In addition, a set of sysctls hw.busdma.* @@ -293,7 +291,7 @@ events to the user space. Currently, mount, unmount, and up/down status of NFS are signaled. - KDB, a new debugger framework has been added. + KDB, a new debugger framework, has been added. This consists of a new GDB backend, which has been rewritten to support threading, run-length encoding compression, and so on, and the frontend that provides a framework in which multiple, different @@ -304,7 +302,7 @@ KDB is enabled by default - via a kernel option options KDB, + via the kernel options options KDB, options GDB, and options DDB. Both DDB and GDB specify which KDB backends to include. @@ -340,7 +338,7 @@ - The KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and + KDB also serves as the single point of contact for any and all code that wants to make use of the debugger functions, such as entering the debugger or handling of the alternate break sequence. @@ -378,17 +376,17 @@ A bug in &man.mmap.2; that pages marked as PROT_NONE may become readable under certain circumstances, has been fixed. &merged; - &man.nmdm.4; has been rewritten to improve the reliability. + &man.nmdm.4; has been rewritten to improve its reliability. - The raid(4), RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD has been removed. - This is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work + The raid(4) driver (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed. + It 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 &man.pcm.4; driver has been modified to read /boot/device.hints on startup, to allow setting of default values for mixer channels. - The &man.sab.4; now supports + The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER kernel option. The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized; @@ -396,7 +394,7 @@ and device snd_* are device-specific sound drivers. The sx driver, which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+ - intelligent multiport serial controllers has been added. + intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added. A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree, in order to support per-class variables in addition to @@ -410,9 +408,9 @@ has been moved to kern.sched.quantum for consistency. - For the &man.uart.4; device - hw.uart.console and - hw.uart.dbgport environment variables + For the &man.uart.4; device, + the hw.uart.console and + hw.uart.dbgport kernel environment variables have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and debug port respectively, as well as the attributes. @@ -448,7 +446,7 @@ interfaces named stf0, stf, or 6to4. Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example, - now ifconfig stf creates + ifconfig stf now creates the interface named stf, not stf0, and does not print stf0 to stdout.