Author: hrs
Date: Fri Feb 11 10:50:33 2011
New Revision: 218551
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218551
Log:
Add more relnotes items for 8.2R:
qpi(4) pseudo bus driver added,
acpi(4) ACPI Reset Register handling changed,
tpm(4) added,
alc(4) freeze on boot with no cable fixed,
bge(4) BCM5718 support added,
re(4) 64-bit DMA addressing support,
rl(4) statistics counter support,
sk(4) station address bug fixed,
net.link.ifqmaxlen replaced IFQ_MAXLEN,
siftr(4) Statistical Information For TCP Research module added,
ada(4) kern.cam.ada.spindown_shutdown added,
dtrace(1) userland support added,
dtruss(1) added,
gpart(8) "recover" subcommand for GPT partition tables added,
tar(1) -b now supports up to 8192 as the blocksize,
sh(1) -u nounset option's $@, $*, and $! handling changed,
periodic(8) script to find installed ports with mismatched chekcsum,
ISC BIND 9.6-ESV-R2.
Approved by: re (implicit)
Some spelling mistakes were spotted by: pluknet
Modified:
releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Feb
11 10:46:15 2011 (r218550)
+++ releng/8.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Fri Feb
11 10:50:33 2011 (r218551)
@@ -187,6 +187,18 @@
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214621">CPU topology detection
for Intel CPUs has been improved.</para>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214784">The qpi(4) pseudo bus
+ driver has been added. This supports extra PCI buses on Intel
+ QPI chipsets where various hardware such as memory controllers
+ for each socket is connected.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,ia64,i386" revision="215006">The &man.acpi.4;
+ driver now uses ACPI Reset Register capability by default only
+ when a flag in the FADT which indicates it is available. This
+ behavior was controlled by a &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>hw.acpi.handle_reboot</varname> and the default value
+ was always set to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+
<para revision="209692">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now
supports an optional delay in <command>reset</command> and
<command>reboot</command> commands. This allows an
@@ -259,6 +271,9 @@
now supports Intel NM10 Express chipset watchdog
timer.</para>
+ <para revision="215036">The &man.tpm.4; driver, which supports
+ Trusted Platform Module has been added.</para>
+
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
@@ -276,6 +291,11 @@
Atheros AR8151/AR8152 PCIe Gigabit/Fast Ethernet
controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="215003">A bug in the &man.alc.4; driver
+ which can lead to a system freeze when the system is
+ booted without a cable plugged in. The symptom was found
+ in AR8132 on EEE PC.</para>
+
<para revision="212011">The TX interrupt moderation timer in
the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms.
The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para>
@@ -287,6 +307,14 @@
<para revision="211379">The &man.bce.4; driver now supports
flow control.</para>
+ <para revision="214997">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports
+ BCM5718 family. This family is the successor to the
+ BCM5714/BCM5715 family and supports IPv4/IPv6 checksum
+ offloading, TSO, VLAN hardware tagging, jumbo frames,
+ MSI/MSIX, IOV, RSS and TSS. The current version of the
+ driver supports all hardware features except IOV and
+ RSS/TSS.</para>
+
<para revision="211367">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which
prevents TSO in BCM57780 from working has been
fixed.</para>
@@ -382,9 +410,19 @@
<para revision="212386">The &man.mwlfw.4;
driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
+ <para revision="215218">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ 64-bit DMA addressing for RTL810xE/RTL8168/RTL8111 PCIe
+ controllers.</para>
+
<para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WoL
(Wake on LAN) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="215222">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports
+ reading hardware statistics counters by setting a
+ &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>dev.re.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname>
+ to <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+
<para revision="212039">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports a
device hint to change a way of register access. Although
some newer RTL8139 controllers support memory-mapped
@@ -402,6 +440,18 @@
improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX
performance under high RX load.</para>
+ <para revision="215216">A bug in the &man.sk.4; driver has
+ been fixed. It did not program the station address for
+ Yukon controllers and overriding the station address with
+ &man.ifconfig.8; was not possible.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211359">The &man.sk.4; driver now disable TX
+ checksum offloading by default. This is because some
+ revision of Yukon controller generates corrupted frames.
+ The checksum offloading can be enabled manually by using
+ <option>txcsum</option> option in the &man.ifconfig.8;
+ utility.</para>
+
<para revision="212468,213612,213628">The &man.sis.4; driver
now works on all supported platforms. Some stability and
performance issues have also been fixed.</para>
@@ -430,13 +480,6 @@
<programlisting>hint.ste.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="1"</programlisting>
- <para revision="211359">The &man.sk.4; driver now disable TX
- checksum offloading by default. This is because some
- revision of Yukon controller generates corrupted frames.
- The checksum offloading can be enabled manually by using
- <option>txcsum</option> option in the &man.ifconfig.8;
- utility.</para>
-
<para revision="213120">The &man.xl.4; driver now supports
WoL (Wake on LAN). Note that not all controllers support
this functionality and some need an additional remote
@@ -451,10 +494,16 @@
as a kernel module <filename>alq.ko</filename>.</para>
<para revision="212738">A bug in the &man.ipfw.4; packet
- filter subsystem has been fixed. The syctl variable
+ filter subsystem has been fixed. The &man.sysctl.8; variable
<varname>net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass</varname> did not work for
<literal>netgraph</literal> action.</para>
+ <para revision="215342">A new loader tunable
+ <varname>net.link.ifqmaxlen</varname> has been added. It
+ specifies the default value of send interface queue length.
+ The default value for this parameter is
+ <varname>50</varname>.</para>
+
<para revision="212742">A <literal>ngtee</literal> action in
the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter subsystem has been changed.
It no longer accepts a packet.</para>
@@ -476,7 +525,7 @@
fixed.</para>
<para revision="214111">The &man.lagg.4; interface now
- supports a sysctl variable
+ supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable
<varname>net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all</varname>. This
controls whether to accept input packets on any link in a
failover lagg.</para>
@@ -522,6 +571,14 @@
has been idle for one retransmit timeout or more. For more
details, see RFC 5681 Section 4.1.</para>
+ <para revision="214859">The &man.siftr.4;, Statistical
+ Information For TCP Research (SIFTR) kernel module has been
+ added. This is a facility that logs a range of statistics
+ on active TCP connections to a log file. It provides the
+ ability to make highly granular measurements of TCP
+ connection state, aimed at system administrators, developers
+ and researchers.</para>
+
<para revision="212319">&os; virtual network stack (vnet) now
supports IPv4 multicast routing.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -540,6 +597,13 @@
<para revision="210836">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver
has been updated to version 1.20.00.17.</para>
+ <para revision="215173">The &man.ada.4; driver now supports a
+ now &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>kern.cam.ada.spindown_shutdown</varname> which
+ controls whether or not to spin-down disks when shutting
+ down if the device supports the functionality. The default
+ value is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+
<para revision="210164">The &man.ata.4; driver
now supports limiting initial ATA mode for devices via
device hints
@@ -612,7 +676,7 @@
kernel environment variable
<varname>boot.nfsroot.nfshandlelen</varname>. This lets the
diskless root file system on boot to use NFS version 3 and
- the spedified file handle length. If this variable is not
+ the specified file handle length. If this variable is not
set, NFS version 2 is used.</para>
<para revision="212668">The ZFS on-disk format has been updated
@@ -629,7 +693,7 @@
6726045, and 6803605.</para>
<para revision="212672">Performance improvements for the ZFS
- have been imported from OpenSolaris. They include cachin of
+ have been imported from OpenSolaris. They include caching of
ACL permission checks, faster handling of &man.stat.2;,
mitigation of mutex lock contention. The related
OpenSolaris Bug IDs are 6802734, 6844861, 6848431, 6775100,
@@ -645,29 +709,28 @@
related OpenSolaris Bug IDs are: 6328632, 6396518, 6501037,
6504953, 6542860, 6551866, 6572357, 6572376, 6582163,
6586537, 6595194, 6596237, 6604992, 6621164, 6623978,
- 6633095, 6635482, 6664765, 6674216, 6696858, 6696858,
+ 6633095, 6635482, 6664765, 6674216, 6696242, 6696858,
6702206, 6710376, 6713916, 6717022, 6722540, 6722991,
6737463, 6739487, 6739553, 6740164, 6745863, 6747596,
6747698, 6748436, 6755435, 6757430, 6758107, 6759986,
6759999, 6761100, 6761406, 6764124, 6765294, 6767129,
6769612, 6770866, 6774713, 6774886, 6775697, 6776104,
- 6776548, 6780491, 6784104, 6784108, 6788152, 6788152,
+ 6776548, 6780491, 6784104, 6784108, 6785914, 6788152,
6788830, 6789318, 6790064, 6790345, 6790687, 6791064,
6791066, 6791071, 6791101, 6792134, 6792139, 6792884,
- 6793430, 6794136, 6794570, 6794570, 6794830, 6797109,
- 6797118, 6798384, 6798878, 6798878, 6799895, 6800184,
- 6800942, 6801507, 6801810, 6803343, 6803822, 6804954,
- 6807339, 6807765, 6809340, 6809683, 6809683, 6809691,
- 6810367, 6815592, 6815893, 6816124, 6818183, 6821169,
- 6821170, 6822816, 6824006, 6824062, 6824968, 6826466,
- 6826468, 6826469, 6826470, 6826471, 6826472, 6827260,
- 6830237, 6833162, 6833711, 6833999, 6834217, 6836714,
- 6836714, 6836768, 6838062, 6838344, 6841321, 6843014,
- 6843069, 6843235, 6844069, 6844069, 6844900, 6847229,
- 6848242, 6856634, 6857012, 6857012, 6857012, 6861983,
- 6862984, 6863610, 6870564, 6870564, 6880764, 6882227,
- 6892298, 6898245, 6906110, 6906946, 6939941, 6950219,
- 6951024, and 6953403.</para>
+ 6793430, 6794136, 6794570, 6794830, 6797109, 6797118,
+ 6798384, 6798878, 6799895, 6800184, 6800942, 6801507,
+ 6801810, 6803343, 6803822, 6804954, 6807339, 6807765,
+ 6809340, 6809683, 6809691, 6810367, 6815592, 6815893,
+ 6816124, 6818183, 6821169, 6821170, 6822816, 6824006,
+ 6824062, 6824968, 6826466, 6826468, 6826469, 6826470,
+ 6826471, 6826472, 6827260, 6830237, 6830541, 6833162,
+ 6833711, 6833999, 6834217, 6836714, 6836768, 6838062,
+ 6838344, 6841321, 6843014, 6843069, 6843235, 6844069,
+ 6844900, 6847229, 6848242, 6856634, 6857012, 6861983,
+ 6862984, 6863610, 6870564, 6880764, 6882227, 6892298,
+ 6898245, 6906110, 6906946, 6939941, 6950219, 6951024, and
+ 6953403.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -679,7 +742,7 @@
of aliases.</para>
<para revision="214729">A bug in the &man.b64decode.1; which
- prevernts an <option>-r</option> option from handling arbitary
+ prevents an <option>-r</option> option from handling arbitrary
breaks in a base64 encoded string has been fixed.</para>
<para revision="211723">The &man.calendar.1; utility now supports
@@ -694,6 +757,14 @@
symptom that &man.dhclient.8; silently exits under a certain
condition.</para>
+ <para revision="214983">Userland support for the &man.dtrace.1;
+ subsystem has been added. This allows inspection of userland
+ software itself and its correlation with the kernel, thus
+ allowing a much better picture of what exactly is going on
+ behind the scenes. The &man.dtruss.1; utility has been added
+ and the <filename>libproc</filename> has been updated to
+ support the facility.</para>
+
<para revision="209362">The &man.du.1; utility now supports a
<option>-t <replaceable>threshold</replaceable></option>
option to display entries that exceeds the value of
@@ -716,7 +787,7 @@
suspend new I/O requests, remove all &man.geli.8; sensitive
data from the kernel memory (like encryption keys) and will
wait for either <command>geli resume</command> or
- <command>geli detach</command> commmand. For more
+ <command>geli detach</command> command. For more
information, see &man.geli.8; manual page.</para>
<para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now checks the
@@ -749,6 +820,29 @@
subcommand. This option force destroying of the partition
table even if it is not empty.</para>
+ <para revision="213684">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports a
+ <command>recover</command> subcommand for GPT partition
+ tables. A corrupted GPT is now marked when the following
+ three types of corruption:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Primary GPT header or table is corrupted.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Secondary GPT header or table is corrupted.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Secondary GPT header is not located at the last LBA.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>Any changes to the corrupted GPT table is not allowed
+ except for <command>destroy</command> and
+ <command>recover</command> subcommands./para>
+
<para revision="213994">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
<literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTME</literal>,
<literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTONCE</literal>, and
@@ -776,6 +870,11 @@
&man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para>
+ <para revision="215229">The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a
+ blocksize which is up to <literal>8192</literal> (4MB) in the
+ <option>-b <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable></option>
+ option.</para>
+
<para revision="214442">A bug in the &man.lpr.1; utility which
prevents it from working with some files on a ZFS file system
has been fixed.</para>
@@ -801,7 +900,7 @@
file.</para>
<para revision="213980">The &man.ntpd.8; utility is now compiled
- with shared memory reference clock driver. For exmaple, GPS
+ with shared memory reference clock driver. For example, GPS
devices can be used as source of precise time via <filename
role="ports">astro/gpsd</filename> in the Ports
Collection.</para>
@@ -839,6 +938,10 @@
<para revision="213825">The &man.ruptime.1; utility now displays
hostnames longer than 12 characters.</para>
+ <para revision="215066">A <option>-u nounset</option> option in
+ the &man.sh.1; program now handles expansion of positional and
+ special variables $@, $*, and $!.</para>
+
<para revision="210616">A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been
fixed. A <literal>SIGINT</literal> signal is now passed
through from a child process if the shell is interactive and
@@ -892,6 +995,10 @@
<para>A periodic script for <command>zfs scrub</command> has
been added. For more details, see &man.periodic.conf.5;
manual page.</para>
+
+ <para>A periodic script which can be used to find installed
+ ports' files with mismatched checksum has been added. For more
+ details, see &man.periodic.conf.5;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="rc-scripts">
@@ -915,10 +1022,9 @@
<para revision="214287">The &man.ee.1; program has been updated
to version 1.5.2.</para>
-<!--
<para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to
- version 9.6.2-P2.</para>
-
+ version 9.6-ESV-R2.</para>
+<!--
<para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to
version 4.7.</para>
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