From c90d14a0148f73834be737ea91ccdcfd4e81ed9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Baldwin Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:47:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Note that several features have been merged to 4.x. - Add a note about supporting USB out of the box during installs and beyond. - Add a note about the changes to the i386 bootstrap to work around the 1024 cylinder problem. Note that boot0 is now 2 sectors long. Reminded by: kkenn --- release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index 63e1b6c91561..47d9f357c67e 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ capability data, and mandatory access control labels. Support for Intel's Wired for Management 2.0 (PXE) was added to the FreeBSD boot loader. Due to API differences, the older PXE -versions are not supported. This allow network booting using DHCP. +versions are not supported. This allow network booting using DHCP. [MERGED] POSIX.1b Shared Memory Objects are now supported. The implementation uses regular files, but automatically enables the MAP_NOSYNC flag @@ -92,17 +92,29 @@ mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED] OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.5a, which includes numerous bugfixes and enhancements. -The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. +The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED] OpenSSH has been upgraded to 2.1.0, which provides support for the SSH2 protocol, including DSA keys. Therefore, OpenSSH users in the US no longer need to rely on the restrictively-licensed RSAREF toolkit which is required to handle RSA keys. OpenSSH 2.1 interoperates well with other SSH2 clients and servers, including the ssh2 port. See -http://www.openssh.com for more details. +http://www.openssh.com for more details. [MERGED] OpenSSH can now authenticate using OPIE passwords in SSH1 mode. -Support is not yet available in SSH2 mode. +Support is not yet available in SSH2 mode. [MERGED] + +Support for USB devices was added to the GENERIC kernel and to the +installation programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that +an AT keyboard must still be used during the initial install, but it +should work fine afterwards. [MERGED] + +The entire i386 bootstrap was revamped to support automatic detection and +use of the Enhanced Disk Drive BIOS extensions to support booting beyond +the 1023rd cylinder. As part of this change, the FreeBSD boot manager +(boot0) was increased from 1 sector in size (512 bytes), to 2 sectors in +length (1024 bytes). As a result, several userland changes were made to +cope with MBR boot loaders of varying sizes. [MERGED] 2. Supported Configurations ---------------------------