From ebaf375bc8c95eae385e362ceac1257c3a68b982 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:12:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: swap_pager changes, ng_atmpif(4). Modified release notes: locale(1) -m, -march=pentium4 re-enabled. --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 25 +++++++++++++++++-- .../en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 25 +++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 21efac3d46a1..46e99ca15167 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ + The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible + changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width + striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O + throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number + of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads. + Platform-Specific Hardware Support @@ -248,6 +254,10 @@ rules. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;. &merged; + The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added. + It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one + to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware. + To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have a ip_id field set unless fragmentation is being done. @@ -351,7 +361,8 @@ threading library is now built by default. The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is - now POSIX-compliant. + now POSIX-compliant. A new option shows all + available codesets. The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem ID for each file system in addition to the normal information @@ -404,7 +415,17 @@ to 8.3.6. GCC has been updated from 3.2.2 to - 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot). + 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot). + + + Previous versions of GCC + generated incorrect code when + -march=pentium4 optimization was + enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with + this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of + CPUTYPE=p4 has been removed. + + lukemftp has been updated from 1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD. 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 21efac3d46a1..46e99ca15167 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ + The swap pager has been revamped. Among user-visible + changes are a change in the layout policy (from fixed-width + striping to a round-robin across devices) for better I/O + throughput, the elimination of compile-time limits on the number + of swap devices, and a reduction in memory overheads. + Platform-Specific Hardware Support @@ -248,6 +254,10 @@ rules. More details can be found in &man.ipfw.8;. &merged; + The &man.ng.atmpif.4; NetGraph node type has been added. + It emulates a HARP physical interface, and allows one + to run the HARP ATM stack without real hardware. + To reduce information leakage, IPv4 packets no longer have a ip_id field set unless fragmentation is being done. @@ -351,7 +361,8 @@ threading library is now built by default. The &man.locale.1; utility has been re-implemented and is - now POSIX-compliant. + now POSIX-compliant. A new option shows all + available codesets. The &man.mount.8; utility now supports to display the filesystem ID for each file system in addition to the normal information @@ -404,7 +415,17 @@ to 8.3.6. GCC has been updated from 3.2.2 to - 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot). + 3.3.1-prerelease (a 11 July 2003 snapshot). + + + Previous versions of GCC + generated incorrect code when + -march=pentium4 optimization was + enabled. This problem is believed to have been fixed with + this upgrade, and the earlier workaround for the case of + CPUTYPE=p4 has been removed. + + lukemftp has been updated from 1.6beta2 to a 30 June 2003 snapshot from NetBSD.