Commit Graph

552 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce A. Mah
644221cd0b New release notes: puc(4).
Modified release notes:  Network device polling not just for i386
anymore and has a manpage (+MFC), uudecode(1) -p un-deprecated.

MFCs noted:  ARCNET support, cm driver,
2002-02-16 19:58:56 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
235e3297d0 Add some system code names. Explicitely list a few unsupported hardware
types that gave rise to emailed questions. Add quick note on Miata CPU
upgradeability.
2002-02-10 13:21:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
68cc2a7edd MFC noted: an(4) LEAP, Home key, and Linux utility support. 2002-02-09 01:38:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
825830b9c0 New release note: ldd(1) can be used on shared libraries.
Updated release note:  BIND 8.3.1-REL.
2002-02-04 20:02:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b1668754dc New release notes: ngctl(8) write, ps(1) -W deorbit burn.
MFCs noted:  dumpdev loader tunable.
2002-02-04 17:50:01 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
227c4518af New release note: Linux emulation needs SYSVSEM.
Submitted by:	archie
2002-02-04 16:31:38 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
19976ce3a6 Modified release note: bzip 1.0.2. 2002-02-01 22:50:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
919834bd3f The SiS 630 chipset is supported by the sis(4) driver.
PR:		34437
Submitted by:	Hendrik Scholz <hendrik@scholz.net>
2002-01-31 19:40:51 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7057577703 New release notes: an(4) LEAP, Home key, and Linux utility support;
uudecode(1) -s; top 3.5b12.

Updated release notes:  binutils update to 27 January 2002 snapshot,
OpenSSL 0.9.6c.
2002-01-31 18:38:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8437a87f23 New release notes: iir driver (submitted by msmith), dumpdev loader tunable
(submitted by sobomax).
2002-01-31 17:50:46 +00:00
John Polstra
645701c559 Note that the bge driver now supports the Netgear GA302T.
MFC after:	3 days
2002-01-27 01:16:50 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1baa0c6c5d Modify release note: larger buffer sizes might mean needing to
increase NMBCLUSTERS.
2002-01-25 20:54:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8d05ef92ce New release note: sysinstall(8) autoloads drivers from mfsroot
/stand/modules.
2002-01-25 18:35:53 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cdd27ea438 Updated release note: Auto-tuning maxusers now maxes out at 384. 2002-01-25 18:27:45 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5e6b58fcbe New release note: smmsp/mailnull users.
Reviewed by:	gshapiro
2002-01-23 18:49:43 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
7109d65231 Mention that a minimal version of camcontrol(8) is now available in the
installation environment (currently only for i386 releases).
2002-01-22 11:13:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1b11aef2ba hw.physmem is more properly a loader tunable, not an environment
variable (which is ambiguous).

Submitted by:	dwhite
2002-01-22 05:21:21 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
16ade34a93 New release notes: ARCNET support, cm driver. 2002-01-19 13:38:48 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5f2e391e8f New release notes: dc(4) supports VLANs, man(1) no longer SUID man,
/etc/pam.d/.
2002-01-19 13:02:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
eb2e201983 Alphabetize the kernel changes section by manpage reference or
keyword, where possible.
2002-01-19 12:50:37 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
84e76dff37 New release notes: bpf(4) works better with select(2) and poll(2),
natd(8) -log_ipfw_denied.
2002-01-19 05:23:17 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d5e4d0437f Coalesce several release notes dealing with the aac(4) driver,
clean-up, and mention that it is "fully qualified and sanctioned by
Adaptec".

Requested by:	scottl (the last part, that is)
Approved by:	re (implicitly)
2002-01-18 19:10:06 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
a9b95b0d62 Update PCMCIA cards (fe(4), ex(4), and ep(4) drivers).
Submitted by:	Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>
2002-01-18 16:55:22 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b35232e314 New release note: SA-02:07. 2002-01-18 16:42:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7d1861f51b Combine a release note entry on the alpha and i386 boot loaders now
that they handle differently-sized blocks on filesystems in the same
way.
2002-01-17 05:56:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
32d91b0458 New release notes: kern.maxvnodes now works, VIA 82C686B Southbridge
fix.
2002-01-17 05:29:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f170350757 Update release note: kern.security.* sysctls have moved to
security.*.

Requested by:	arr
2002-01-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
24043ba7ec Move bootloader-related changes into a new sect3-level section
underneath the Kernel Changes.
2002-01-14 19:02:19 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
412b5b3d8c Release note deleted: sysinstall newfs blocksize parameters on
alpha.

MFCs noted:  Bootloaders support larger filesystem block sizes.
2002-01-14 15:46:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5535673fe8 New release notes: boot loaders support larger filesystem block
sizes, new sis(4) support, tcpd(8) now built and installed.
2002-01-14 03:59:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0fd08d1b33 Mention sis(4) support for SiS 635 and 735 motherboard chipsets. 2002-01-14 03:54:48 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4ab0ac1631 Rewrite the i386 processor support section. The old one was too
Intel-specific, and needed fleshing out.

PR:		33582
Reviewed by:	Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>,
		"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>,
		swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
MFC after:	1 day
2002-01-11 23:27:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b8f52f738a New release notes: syslogd(8) -c, less 371. 2002-01-08 19:59:54 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
2ab47b10e8 New release note: kernel/mfsroot split on installation CDs,
permitting the use of full kernels on CD installs.

MFC noted:  New sysinstall Auto settings and Recover space from
deleted autosize partitions.
2002-01-07 22:22:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
54cad77db1 New release note: On the alpha, sysinstall overrides the newfs block/frag
defaults for new filesystems it creates, to meet a boot1 assumption
about the block size of /.
2002-01-07 19:27:53 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
967375e92e MFS: Sync to 4-STABLE...wordsmithing and markup fixes, also mention
manpages as a source for further reading.

	article.sgml	1.1.2.9->1.1.2.10, 1.1.2.11->1.1.2.12
2002-01-06 17:17:55 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
bcac684164 New (but very overdue) release note: ata(4) 48-bit addressing.
MFC noted:  locale renaming.
2002-01-05 18:46:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f2185639f7 New release notes: SA-02:01, SA-02:02. 2002-01-05 06:07:17 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
53bb974408 We were right the first time...the HPT372 is an ATA133 controller.
Pointed out by:	Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
2002-01-04 21:55:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e54f2d6872 Fix (I think) a typo in the hardware list (HPT372 is ATA100 instead of
ATA133?).

MFC noted:  "more" chipsets supported by ata(4).
2002-01-03 23:24:03 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
adbd31cb47 New release notes (and hardware list updates): dc(4) support
for Xircom 3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112, ifpi(4).
2002-01-03 22:56:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7065a2fdeb Update copyright years. 2002-01-02 17:27:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
865bd13f4c MF4S: Minor wordsmithing and markup fixes. 2002-01-02 01:36:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
31ce46afbf New release note: network filesystems can now be listed in
/etc/fstab.

Submitted by:	sheldonh
2001-12-27 21:55:02 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5de25ed9b8 New release notes: pseudofs-ize procfs(5), libstand can write to UFS
filesystems, sysinstall(8) auto-partition updates.
2001-12-27 21:37:38 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
fb8f795e9b New release notes found while trying to catch-up RELENG_4 to reality:
whois(1) -c, pkg_delete -r, rc.conf(5) support for IPFilter state tables.
2001-12-27 21:18:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
c8c16add9a Add nsmb.conf to list of files that sysinstall preserves on an upgrade. 2001-12-27 19:59:57 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
25605152aa Remove unwanted(?) 0xa0 characters. 2001-12-27 03:18:24 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
5060d43190 Remove doubled "ability to" word. 2001-12-27 01:38:02 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0051ce2970 Flesh out cdboot release note a little bit, note MFC. 2001-12-26 23:41:20 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1bb0556ad5 New release note: ipfw(8) precedence matching.
Updated release note:  smbfs userland 1.4.3.
2001-12-26 23:27:54 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
54adcde6c0 Separate entries with blank line. 2001-12-26 14:01:17 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
ddd3b56f38 Fix unbalanced paren. 2001-12-25 13:40:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0d567ca509 MFCs noted: route(8) -ifa/-ifp, NTP 4.1.0. 2001-12-21 18:17:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9df826532b New release notes: sysinstall(8) now turns on Soft Updates by
default for new filesystems, fdc(4) update.
2001-12-21 02:27:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e45e83304a Add some remarks on em(4).
MFC noted:  NFS/VM fixes.
2001-12-20 21:33:54 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8ff661ddc9 Delete a release note regarding mergemaster(8) which, while true, was
too vague to be useful.
2001-12-20 19:45:14 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7750015a22 Modified release note: syncache with syncookies. 2001-12-20 17:42:49 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4225365e92 New release note: xl(4) bugfix.
Modified release notes:  UFS_DIRHASH now in GENERIC,

MFC noted:  libfetch auth callback.
2001-12-20 16:45:21 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6b32417d21 Update smbfs release note for module-loading.
MFCs noted:  sbni driver, id(1) handles groups(1) and whoami(1),
sysctl(8) -e.
2001-12-20 16:28:50 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
02f2c8a235 Clarify dirprefs release note. 2001-12-19 23:38:11 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cc29665926 MFC: ftpd(8) -o/-O.
Requested by:	sheldonh
2001-12-19 05:30:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
a52deb66b2 New release note: i386 performance enhancements for dc(4) and sis(4).
Suggested by:	luigi
2001-12-19 05:21:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8709e81edc The smbutils import really only applies to the i386...fix this
(noticed by sheldonh).  While I'm here, note its MFC, also add some
cross-references from the kernel part.
2001-12-18 16:26:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
59f2fc2ca4 New release note: Network device polling.
Modified release note:  Smaller local slowstart flightsize now that
buffers are larger.
2001-12-17 23:27:49 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
db87a77bd4 New release note: smbfs userland import.
Modified release notes:  bge(4) input checksum offload disabled,
ncv/nsp/stg modules.

MFCs noted:  bootloader -p
2001-12-17 21:32:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4bb107882e Second (hopefully last) alpha jumbo patch to remove i386-isms.
Reviewed by:	wilko
MFC after:	3 days
2001-12-15 19:57:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
142f8989bc New release notes: root filesystem on a SCSI CDROM, filesystem
bugs fixed.

MFCs noted:  em(4), faith(4) loadable/unloadable/clonable,
sis(4) VLAN support, interface capabilities, IP address hash
table, syn cache, newfs(8) defaults.
2001-12-15 06:48:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0c9755a23b Whitespace and capitalization fixes to sync with RELENG_4. 2001-12-14 04:29:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
247e80274d New release note: lukemftp. 2001-12-14 01:14:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d337b6b915 New release notes: boot loader -p for i386, maxusers autosizing,
burncd(8) for VCDs/SVCDs, newfs(8) new 16K/2K block/frag defaults,
watch(8) -f.

Updated release note: sis(4) VAN and note its MFC done a long time
ago.
2001-12-13 21:18:56 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9c6df0fa68 Fix missing semi-colons on some entity references. 2001-12-13 18:12:12 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f84dad7122 MFCs noted: isic(4) support for Compaq Microcom 610 ISDN,
isdnphone(8) -k.
2001-12-13 06:39:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6c27cf4a68 Grrr...TCP bugfixes don't belong in the filesystems section. Toss
another pointy hat into my pile in the corner.
2001-12-13 06:03:08 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5c020918b4 MFCs noted: vlan(4) devices now (un)loadable and clonable, ciss
driver.
2001-12-13 06:01:01 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0312bfaed9 Move some notes inside the paragraphs for the hardware they describe. 2001-12-12 23:22:34 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ede55da024 New release note: jail sysctl variables moved.
Submitted by:	arr
2001-12-12 15:31:19 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e581388480 Make manpage links for 5.0-CURRENT release documents explicitly access the
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT manpages on the Web site, instead of pointing at
the (possibly wrong) default manpages.

MFC after:	3 days
2001-12-11 23:55:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e25076d79c Reword "OpenSSH UseLogin yes" item, with cross-reference to
security advisory.
2001-12-04 17:27:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
29bec00a2d Back out the part of the previous commit that dealt with network device
polling (it isn't in CURRENT yet, as pointed out by rwatson).

New release note:  TCP stalls fixed.
2001-12-04 17:20:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
c1b1b5019b New release notes: em(4), network device polling, ata(4) improved
SiS chipset support, OpenSSH UseLogin yes fix.
2001-12-04 15:15:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
fdd5b232b2 New release note: send-pr(1) -a (+ MFC).
MFC noted:  Increased TCP sndspace/rcvspace defaults.
2001-11-30 21:37:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5b9f1319fe Reword pciconf(8) -v release to be a little more useful (now that I
understand what it does), move it to the userland section, and note MFC.
2001-11-29 23:41:14 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
acd844e79d New release notes: ciss driver, sbni driver.
(Hardware list updated accordingly.)
2001-11-29 23:24:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
57d484c8cc Bring release note on /dev/net into line with reality. 2001-11-29 19:00:16 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5393fef692 Alphabetize the "Disks and Storage" section of the release notes. No
content changes.
2001-11-28 23:32:24 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7b7ab09d93 Update release notes: ACPI imported version. 2001-11-28 23:27:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ef2b805fcf New release note: TCP syncache. 2001-11-26 20:06:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1c8653816e New release note: sh(1) now implements test as a built-in command, also
no longer has printf as a built-in.

Submitted by:		knu
2001-11-26 06:00:28 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d90753c548 Lose the line listing CD-{R,RW} drives. Listing these few devices is
not particularly helpful, since there are many drives that work with
FreeBSD.

Submitted by:	wilko
2001-11-26 00:26:10 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f36f107163 First alpha cleanup-patch to try to reduce the amount of hardware
that shows up on non-i386 hardware lists "by default" (because no
set of hardware platforms was explicitly listed).

Reviewed by:	-alpha

Contributions from:	Rolf Neugebauer <neugebar@dcs.gla.ac.uk>,
			wilko, jhb
2001-11-26 00:24:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
562ee0864c Add attribution for lomac(4) feature.
Requested by:	rwatson
2001-11-26 00:17:50 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
43f5f1d6ac New release note: lomac(4). 2001-11-21 20:05:05 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e19ee8d3f1 New release notes: debugging info in modules built with debugging
kernel (based on info from gad), timed(8) works on alpha.
2001-11-21 20:04:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
09088b1d15 Remove config.sgml from dependencies. Forgot this in my last commit. 2001-11-17 20:53:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f220e10788 No UserConfig under -CURRENT (at least so I've been led to believe)
so take out the text that discusses it.
2001-11-17 20:28:44 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
101acc33fa New release notes: timezone database update, Linux emulation update
for linux_base-7 port.
2001-11-17 00:44:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0721252ad2 New release notes: IPFilter supports IPv6, ipfs(8).
Reminded by:	devet@devet.org (Arjan de Vet)
2001-11-16 01:48:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e4caab2649 New release notes: Jitter in load average computation, newsyslog(8)
support for bzip2(1).

MFCs noted:  gx(4), edquota(8) -f.
2001-11-15 19:32:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f1dcc7f929 Catch up on old release notes: fxp(4) dynamic standby mode workaround,
keyinfo(1) in C.

MFC noted:  fxp(4) interrupt coalescing/packet bundling.
2001-11-07 20:30:12 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
b73ada49cd Fixes:
* least -> list
  * recommendations -> recommended
2001-11-06 21:34:11 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
d32cbf82df Fixes:
* acceptible -> acceptable
  * partiton -> partition
  * bootdisk -> boot disk
  * harddisk -> hard disk
  * it's -> its
  * bandwith -> bandwidth
  * website -> web site
2001-11-06 21:32:02 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
4fe50cca4b Typo: compatability -> compatibility 2001-11-06 21:27:30 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
60cd7e2378 Fixes:
* compatability -> compatibility
  * El Torrito -> El Torito
  * repectively -> respectively
2001-11-06 21:26:13 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
1c49be7139 website -> web site 2001-11-06 21:24:59 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
56bb3c0e58 Fix typo:
* compatability -> compatibility
2001-11-06 21:23:28 +00:00
Jimmy Olgeni
f4f9b0ead3 Fix typos:
* initialise -> initialize
  * maintenence -> maintenance
  * manufacured -> manufactured
  * accomodate -> accommodate
2001-11-06 21:21:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b1b863c1b2 Fix typo: s/dirver/driver/ 2001-11-06 19:48:22 +00:00
Murray Stokely
6c412638de Add the Farallon NetLINE 10/100 PCI to the list of cards supported by
rl(4).

PR:		docs/31270
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
2001-11-05 09:17:23 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
daa67917a6 New release notes: pmc driver, new loader tunables, ipfw(8) limit.
Updated release note:  bridge(4) and dummynet(4) are loadable modules.
2001-11-05 00:30:47 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
2ad0f3c5f6 Note MFC of vmiodirenable=1. 2001-11-05 00:16:30 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
45c9c28475 New release notes: gawk 3.1.0
Updated release notes:  ACPI update and APM compatability, binutils
update.

Deleted release notes:  awk from Bell Labs.
2001-11-04 23:57:37 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d4d3eb2a11 Add more ata(4) controllers supported. 2001-11-04 23:43:50 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
043f2faeae Alpha now has a TGA-capable console driver. 2001-11-01 19:07:33 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
b3e9616ae8 TGA based display adapters are now supported. 2001-11-01 19:01:11 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
eb60ca1b24 Document RMC for DS[12]0 2001-10-31 19:08:53 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
38696bb465 MFC noted: ipfw(8) -d/-e (plus small typo fix). 2001-10-31 16:47:55 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1accdac67a New release notes: de(4) round-robin transmit/receive, ng_eth(4),
sysctl(8) -e.
2001-10-31 16:39:00 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cd0616d7c8 Resequence network protocols section.
Some ipfw(8) and ip6fw(8) items were mistakenly put here; move them
to the userland area.

No content or markup changes.
2001-10-30 20:25:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cec6e88146 New release notes: gprof(1) -K, tip(1) update and cu(1) substitute,
awk from Bell Labs replaces GNU awk.

Updated release note:  UUCP removal.

Delete release note:  GNU awk update.
2001-10-30 20:19:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e5217bf6e8 Group ed(4) entries together. 2001-10-30 19:49:17 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
94216379e3 More reorganization of 3Com devices. While I'm here, add some
devices (gleaned from comments in driver source files) supported
by xl(4).
2001-10-29 22:31:22 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ce249ef355 Add infrastructure for an ia64 hardware list. It's a long way from
being usable at this point, so it's not even hooked up to the rest
of the RELNOTESng build; however it will be helpful for testing the content
as it approaches reality.
2001-10-29 05:08:52 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ff237c89e4 Start to unravel some of the mess in the Ethernet NIC section. The
original hardware list was mostly organized by driver except for the
case of NICs by Intel, DEC, and 3Com, whose NICs tended to be
organized by manufacturer.  Most of these entries are now organized by
driver, except for a few 3Com NICs; also the multitude of ed(4)
drivers needs to be coalesced.

While I'm here, fix a markup glitch in the ISDN section that caused
any non-i386 hardware list to be incorrectly numbered.
2001-10-29 04:45:08 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e75dab473d Clarify a release note entry about fe(4)-supported PC Cards. 2001-10-29 04:14:40 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
3fba5fc2fe Turn on table-of-contents generation for the release notes and
hardware notes.

Requested by:	many
2001-10-27 02:41:29 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
09ab44abbd If an article in the release documentation has a table of contents,
make it go down to 3 section levels (the default depth for FreeBSD
articles is 1 level, but few articles have tables-of-contents
enabled).
2001-10-26 20:26:59 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6f165fd0ae Fix title to conform to FreeBSD/port naming convention. 2001-10-26 16:43:20 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
344a6d29f2 New release notes: isic(4) support for Compaq Microcom 610 ISDN, fbtab(5)
globbing, rcmd(3) uses ${RSH}.

MFCs noted:  sysinstall(8) can load KLDs at install-time.

Fix typo for isdnphone(8).
2001-10-26 16:28:36 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
18d730731d Move abstract inside articleinfo and re-indent, no content changes. 2001-10-25 21:06:37 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
4caad653cf New release notes: Multiple low-level consoles, fxp(4) bundling. 2001-10-25 20:47:12 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
53db40974b Refer more consistently to the different FreeBSD (hardware platform)
ports.  Also use "official" names for platforms where appropriate.

Partly suggested by:	phantom
2001-10-24 16:01:40 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
81787f40dc Add some new entities with the "official" names of the platforms
we support (as opposed to the names of ports).
2001-10-24 15:37:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6efeb9a73c Clarification: &release.next; refers to a future FreeBSD release.
Submitted by:	phantom
2001-10-23 20:34:41 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d17a8cacce New release note: pkg_create -b. 2001-10-22 19:23:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6328bae095 Re-order ports collection infrastructure section of release notes. 2001-10-22 19:20:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
103818d5ad Delete wx(4) release notes and hardware notes.
xl(4) now supports transmit-side TCP/IP checksum offload.
2001-10-22 18:25:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
74af4616c6 Bring a few multi-architecture arch= attributes into the hardware
list, based primarily on dmesg logs posted to various mailing lists.
2001-10-19 20:56:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5207734205 New release note: xl(4) checksum offloading.
Reviewed by:	alc
2001-10-19 20:07:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
61fa74d8aa New release note: route(8) add -ifp/-ifa.
Submitted by:	ru
2001-10-19 20:02:22 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5b41c0773e New release notes: libstand/loader(8) bzip2 support, isdnphone(8) -k,
arp(8) fddi/atm output.

MFC noted:  arp(8) interface name in output.
2001-10-19 16:27:05 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
81f6505ee2 New release and hardware note: gx(4).
While I'm here, fix a minor markup glitch in bge(4) release note.
2001-10-19 15:01:54 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
ff33c3ba38 Note MFC of syslogd -b. 2001-10-18 15:23:55 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
28e80882c1 New release notes: arp(8) prints interface names, strnstr(3)/strcasestr(3),
sysinstall(8) can load KLDs.

Minor markup additions.
2001-10-13 00:33:40 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
2bab9ad217 Re-order "Network Interface Support" section of release notes.
No other whitespace, markup, or content changes.
2001-10-12 22:07:09 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e7c25bd2f6 Start to move to an alphabetical (rather than semi-chronological)
ordering on release notes items, in an attempt to bring some order
to a huge mess.  This commit covers the top-level "Userland"
section.

No other content, markup, or whitespace changes.
2001-10-12 17:29:22 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6af023343d New release note: isp(4) Qlogic 2300 support. For some reason this didn't
get committed along with its accompanying hardware note entry.
2001-10-11 21:48:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
56ccbf72ac Move two misplaced release notes to the correct location. 2001-10-11 15:38:48 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5b2f237ee0 MFCs noted: amdpm(4), new newfs(8) cylinder group defaults. 2001-10-11 15:37:26 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
80037d24bb Add missing space. 2001-10-11 12:18:14 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
cb3ab08f03 Remove a redundant use of &arch;. 2001-10-10 02:34:20 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
bc1ce487e9 Add a sentence giving a bit of background for recent newfs(8) changes.
Discussed with:	Ollivier Robert <roberto@ns2.freenix.org>
2001-10-09 20:10:49 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9f970b5705 Updated release note: FILE 3.37.
MFC noted:  tcsh 6.11.
2001-10-09 02:45:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
bdede91ff0 Update relevant release note item with SA-01:62. 2001-10-08 21:33:56 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
275d9b59d3 Update references to 'device' entries for the kernel config
files to use 5.x syntax (I hope..)

Note: I suppose one might need to hack the hints file as well?

Submitted by:	Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
2001-10-08 20:33:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
0f153072be New release notes: eaccess(2), vfs.vmiodirenable=1.
MFCs noted:  wall(1) -g, route(8) indirect routes, route(8) net/bits
syntax, route(8) proxy only published ARP entries.
2001-10-06 05:16:27 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
2c8e36f96f Update list of supported ata(4) controllers (from ata.4 manpage). 2001-10-05 23:52:15 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
542d6f43f8 New release note: MAXMEM/hw.physmem.
Use entity for agp(4) driver.
2001-10-05 22:52:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
03c00df3ce Add an abstract for this document, flesh out the introduction a
bit, and fix up the upgrading section.  While I'm here, delete some
of the SGML comments that were left-over from merging the source
files.

MFC after:	1 day
2001-10-05 22:03:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
48badc3bef Updated release note: fsck(8) default cylinder group behavior.
MFCs noted:  KVA_SPACE, ping(8) -A, fmt(1) rewrite.
2001-10-05 03:32:49 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ee741c282c Move <pubdate></pubdate> element into the <articleinfo></articleinfo> area,
where it goes for most other documents.

MFC after:	1 day
2001-10-04 23:06:37 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
398f29f684 Consolidate the various SGML source files making up the release
notes document.  Basically, I've moved the contents of common/
{artheader,intro,upgrading}.sgml into common/new.sgml, removed duplicate
$FreeBSD$ markers, and adjusted the various references to these files.
No other whitespace or content changes.

This change will make it easier to do some minor restructuring.

MFC after:	1 day
2001-10-04 22:40:19 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
003c0a008a The upgrade instructions referred to an article that was (I think)
folded into the Handbook.  Point readers in the right direction and
do a little touchup on the text in this section.

MFC after:	1 day
2001-10-04 20:23:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6f2a7cbb4b In "Further Reading", mention other DocProj articles/books (in addition to
the FAQ and Handbook).

MFC after:	1 day
2001-10-04 17:33:35 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
72ad2e4493 Fix organizational nits: Move Cardbus/NEWCARD release note to PCCARD
section.  Move release notes for tunneling-type drivers from network
protocol section to NICs section for consistency (tap(4) release notes
were combined).
2001-10-02 04:59:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9b2b43ee84 Try to make some sense of the various release note items
documenting OpenSSH version updates in -CURRENT and coalesce them into
a single item.
2001-10-02 04:45:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1e8b9dd28c New release note: Each jail(2) can have its own securelevel (requested by
rwatson).

Mention that the OpenSSH 2.9 upgrade made ssh-agent(1) work for DSA
keys.
2001-10-02 03:40:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7f19aa6131 New release notes: Per-interface IP address hash table, network
devices in /dev, UUCP moved to ports.

MFCs noted:  bge(4).
2001-10-01 19:36:21 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
02af4ddc80 "Avance Logic", not "Advance Logic".
Submitted by:	Robert Reid <robreid@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2001-10-01 12:36:52 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
bd9477d238 Document AlphaPC64 and restructure section on EB64-family. 2001-09-30 12:04:14 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
49b7294497 Correct snd_maestro3_load command line for loader.conf.
Submitted by:	René Luria <rene@luria.ch>
2001-09-29 02:56:11 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d4dd942354 New release notes: interface capabilities, faith(4)/stf(4)/tap(4)/vlan(4)
cloning, lpd(8) o-type print-file actions, edquota(8) -f, libgmp
superceded by libmp.

MFCs noted:  OpenSSH 2.9.
2001-09-28 16:18:27 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
a89040064b New release notes: bge(4), ng_gif(4), ng_gif_demux(4), ng_ip_input(4),
tftpd(8) support for RFC 2349.
2001-09-28 00:45:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f8ff8acf43 Update list of urio devices supported. 2001-09-27 20:51:07 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
02538b88ad MFCs noted: ancontrol(8) -M, nl(1). 2001-09-27 18:06:22 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
99a7ea5c0e New release notes: aac(4) update, Yahoo! coredump patch, touch(1) -h. 2001-09-25 19:09:24 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
7bdd46e6a1 Clarify that it is the SRM console that disables onboard USB on DS10.
Applies to newer SRM versions only. Verified by checking various SRM
revs.
2001-09-25 18:44:31 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f0a538a587 New release notes: KSE milestone 2, groups(1) and whoami(1) subsumed
by id(1).
2001-09-21 22:19:45 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1370bd89c6 New release notes: Load addresses of kernels exported, KVA_SPACE,
client/server NFS split, find(1) primaries now take time units.
2001-09-21 22:06:54 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e20fd30969 New release notes: cvs(1) -T, cvs(1) diff -j.
MFCs noted:  cat(1) UNIX-domain sockets, dirpref.

While I'm here, group CVS-related items together in their own section
under userland contributed software.
2001-09-21 21:11:18 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
461f19b387 New release note: netstat -S.
MFC noted:  netstat -z.
2001-09-21 15:29:32 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
123437c945 Move pccard release note entries into their own sect3 section (as was done
for 4.4-RELEASE), eliminate one entry that was superceded by another.
2001-09-21 14:56:10 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
8bd7057071 Remove some repetitively redundant wording.
Pointed out by:	Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
2001-09-21 03:06:46 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7429c0e49b Try to work off backlog of CURRENT release notes: vm.zeroidle_enable,
an(4)/ancontrol(8) -M monitor mode, burncd(8) -d, cat(1) UNIX-domain
sockets.
2001-09-18 15:25:00 +00:00
Murray Stokely
e23a4b011e Add release note entry about the amdpm(4) driver. 2001-09-18 04:55:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6e4fa6775e Add some cards to nge(4)-supported hardware list, as described in
src/share/man/man4/nge.4 rev 1.8.
2001-09-14 15:34:06 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d7c44aa0b5 Two style changes: Bring "maintained by" credit into a sect1info, and
move the ID string from a pubdate element into a comment on the
grounds that this document doesn't change rapidly enough to require
that the ID string to actually be rendered in the output.
2001-09-14 15:31:33 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
e26dcaf81e The Books and Articles section was very choppy due to its cut-and-paste
origins and prior edits.  Polish it.
2001-09-14 04:33:37 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
5395348ba7 New release note: semop(2) buffer overflow fixed. 2001-09-11 21:05:01 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
b21e7ed6ba New release note about linker.hints and kldxref(8). Even though this
solves a pretty annoying problem, this release notes entry doesn't
describe what this fixes because I can't seem to figure out how to do
this without giving a lot of background.
2001-09-11 13:11:43 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
2e76c457bf Mention that uustat now gets run as uucp, not root, and note MFC. 2001-09-10 23:19:48 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
bad6515af2 According to message-id <yfk7kv6rj15.fsf@vader.clickarray.com> on
freebsd-ports, ports/packages will be re-frozen and re-rolled before
4.4-RELEASE, so we can (imprecisely) mark the CVSup bugfix as being MFC-ed.
2001-09-10 20:41:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6b6ff9a926 New release note: Non-root-owned binaries in standard system paths
now have the schg flag set.
2001-09-10 18:51:13 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
1c598c2c17 New release notes: Use net/cvsup, rather than net/cvsup-bin and
net/cvsupd-bin.  Also note CVSup update to fix S1G bug.

I'm breaking a self-imposed rule of not mentioning ports-collection
updates in release notes.  I'm only doing this because CVSup is a
fairly essential part of the FreeBSD Project infrastructure.  Save
for exceptions such as this, the release notes will continue to
document changes to the base system only.

Suggested by:	mike
2001-09-10 16:54:50 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
92933027f4 Add a bit of background to the ACPI release note. 2001-09-07 15:30:18 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
fd73ce782f ACPI CA updated to 20010831. 2001-09-07 12:14:24 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
67e4fc622a Delete a note to myself that doesn't really belong in a released
document.
2001-09-06 23:17:55 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
20eb2c602f Delete some cruft that somehow snuck into this file. 2001-09-06 23:16:04 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
d213656282 Update release note: tcsh 6.11. 2001-09-05 18:19:08 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
850f4860e2 Mention the Sparc64 port under development.
Submitted by:	"Alexey V. Neyman" <alex.neyman@auriga.ru>
2001-09-05 17:04:36 +00:00