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New release notes: kern.hostuuid, trunk(4), sg (+MFC),

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truss(1) uses ptrace(2), uuidgen(1) moved to /bin.

Modified release notes:  ZFS manpage update and pc98 support,
fix markup in KSE note.
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&man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket
to a remote host.</para>
<para>A new <varname>kern.hostuuid</varname> sysctl variable
has been added to hold a host's Universally Unique Identifier
(UUID). This UUID is computed or generated by a new
<filename>rc.d/hostid</filename> startup script and, where
possible, is saved to disk to be persistent across reboots.</para>
<para>Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel
option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel).
It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in
functionality) for all platforms except sun4v.</para>
functionality) for all platforms except &arch.sun4v;.</para>
<para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) has been added to
the &man.pci.4; driver. &merged;</para>
@ -1085,6 +1091,10 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
devices will marked <literal>up</literal> upon creation. &merged;
</para>
<para>The &man.trunk.4; driver, ported from OpenBSD and NetBSD,
has been added to support a variety of protocols and algorithms
for link aggregation, failover, and fault tolerance.</para>
<para>Support for &man.kqueue.2; operations has been added to
the &man.tun.4; driver. &merged;</para>
@ -1243,6 +1253,13 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
option; the <option>-a</option> option is now used to specify
the authentication algorithm. &merged;</para>
<para>A new sg driver has been added. It emulates a significant
subset of the Linux SCSI SG passthrough device API, and
intended to allow programs running under Linux emulation
(as well as native &os; applications) to access the
<filename>/dev/sg<replaceable>*</replaceable></filename>
devices supported by Linux. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports
<literal>PLAY_MSF</literal>,
<literal>PLAY_TRACK</literal>,
@ -1276,8 +1293,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
layer of unions. More information can be found in the
&man.mount.unionfs.8; manual page. &merged;</para>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Support for Sun's ZFS has been
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.pc98;] Support for Sun's ZFS has been
added. More information about this file system can be found
in the &man.zfs.8; manual page or
on the <ulink url="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/">
OpenSolaris ZFS page</ulink>.</para>
@ -1742,12 +1760,19 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
flag for the same functionality as the strace utility
(<filename role="package">devel/strace</filename>).</para>
<para>The &man.truss.1; utility no longer depends on the availability
of the &man.procfs.5; file system; it uses the &man.ptrace.2;
interface instead for controlling a traced process.</para>
<para>[&arch.powerpc;] The &man.truss.1; utility now supports &os;/powerpc.</para>
<para>The usbd(8) utility has been removed.
The &man.devd.8; utility and its configuration
file now support functionality which is equivalent to it.</para>
<para>The &man.uuidgen.1; utility has been moved from
<filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename>.</para>
<para>The vnconfig(8) utility, which was long ago replaced by
&man.mdconfig.8;, has been removed.</para>