From 5259b14aa60afd72e7a137799ace589166ff9eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hiroki Sato Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:26:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Regen from r191667. --- en/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/en/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html b/en/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html index 9cea99b843..a60d1f0e4a 100644 --- a/en/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html +++ b/en/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ alink="#0000FF"> 2008, 2009 The FreeBSD Documentation Project

$FreeBSD: releng/7.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml -191650 2009-04-29 08:46:50Z hrs $
+191667 2009-04-29 15:22:58Z hrs $

@@ -152,9 +152,6 @@ href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/ --- @@ -255,9 +252,13 @@ debugger now supports a show mount subcommand.

The FreeBSD DTrace subsystem now supports a probe for process execution.

-

[amd64] The FreeBSD kernel virtual address space has been increased to 6GB and the -ceiling on the kmem map size to 3.6GB. Note that the ceiling as a fraction of the kernel -map size rather than an absolute quantity.

+

[amd64] The FreeBSD kernel virtual address space has been increased to 6GB. This +allows subsystems to use larger virtual memory space than before. For example, +zfs(8) adaptive +replacement cache (ARC) requires large kernel memory space to cache file system data, so +it benefits from the increased address space. Note that the ceiling on the kernel map +size is now 60% of the size rather than an absolute quantity.

The @@ -273,16 +274,16 @@ environment with restricted process view and no networking.

  • SCTP ( -sctp(4)) with -IPv6 in jails has been supported.

    +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sctp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE" +>sctp(4)) with +IPv6 in jails has been implemented.

  • Specific CPU binding by using cpuset(1) has -been supported. Note that the current implementation allows the superuser inside of the +been implemented. Note that the current implementation allows the superuser inside of the jail to change the CPU bindings specified. This behavior will be fixed in the next release.

    • @@ -318,7 +319,7 @@ been updated for the new features.

    The kld(4) now -supports installing 32-bit system call to the FreeBSD system call translation layer from +supports installing 32-bit system calls to the FreeBSD system call translation layer from kernel modules.

    The shmctl(2) and -/usr/src/UPDATING for limitations of this temporal +/usr/src/UPDATING for limitations of this temporary solution.

    +

    A +sysctl(3) leaf +node has a flag to tag itself as MPSAFE now.

    +

    The FreeBSD 32-bit system call translation layer now supports installing 32-bit system calls for VFS_AIO.

    @@ -343,7 +349,9 @@ calls for VFS_AIO.

    Superpages is a feature that enables each entry in the TLB (translation lookaside buffer) to map a large physical memory region into a virtual address space in modern CPUs. This provides possible memory savings for applications that share large amounts of memory -between the address spaces and performance improvements due to fewer TLB misses.

    +between the address spaces and performance improvements due to fewer TLB misses. This is +disabled by default and can be enabled by setting a loader tunable vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled to 1.

    @@ -356,6 +364,12 @@ supports 4-byte volume ID that certain versions of Windows® put into the MBR and invoking PXE by pressing F6 key on some supported BIOSes.

    +

    [i386] The +boot(8) BTX +loader has been improved. This fixes several boot issues on recent machines reported for +7.1-RELEASE and before.

    +

    The loader(8) is now @@ -442,6 +456,19 @@ issues.

    [sparc64] The schizo(4) driver for Schizo Fireplane/Safari to PCI 2.1 and Tomatillo JBus to PCI 2.2 bridges has been added.

    +

    The +u3g(4) driver +for USB based 3G cards and dongles including Vodafone Mobile Connect Card 3G, Qualcomm +CDMA MSM, Huawei E220, Novatel U740, Sierra MC875U, and so on has been added. This +provides support for the multiple USB-to-serial interfaces exposed by many 3G USB/PC Card +modems, and the device is accessed through the +ucom(4) driver +which makes it behave like a +tty(4).

    +

    The sched_ule(4) @@ -451,11 +478,6 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sched_4bsd&sektion=4&manpath=Free sched_4bsd(4) does. Note that it cannot be modified at run-time.

    -

    A -sysctl(3) leaf -node has a flag to tag itself as MPSAFE now.

    -
    2.2.2.1 Multimedia Support
    @@ -951,8 +973,8 @@ now supports a -D flag for damaged recovery mode, wh enable certain aggressive operations that can make fsck(8) to -survive with file systems that has very serious data damage. This is an useful last -resort when on disk data damage is very serious and causes fsck(8) to crash otherwise.

    @@ -962,7 +984,7 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo&sektion=3&manpath=Fre getaddrinfo(3) function now supports SCTP.

    -

    A bug in the A bug was fixed in the ipfw(8) utility which displays extra messages for a NAT rule even when a -q @@ -972,9 +994,9 @@ flag is specified.

    href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ln&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE">ln(1) utility now supports a -w flag to check if the source file actually -exists. When the flag is specified and the file does not exist, the ln(1) will put a + class="CITEREFENTRY">ln(1) will issue a warning message.

    The -q fla

    The make(1) utility -now supports .MAKE.JOB.PREFIX variable. If .MAKE.JOB.PREFIX variable. If -j and -v are specified, it outputs for each target is prefixed with a token --- target --- the first part of which can be controlled @@ -1053,7 +1075,7 @@ versions:

    A bug in the netstat(1) -utility has been fixed. The -ss now works in the icmp6 +utility has been fixed. The -ss option now works in the icmp6 section as expected.

    The tzdata2009f release.

    2.5 Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure

    -

    A bug in the A bug in pkg_create(1) which prevents the -n flag from working has been fixed.

    + +

    The FreeBSD Ports Collection now supports multiple +make(1) jobs in +some supported ports. This is automatically enabled when a port is marked as MAKE_JOBS_SAFE and improves CPU utilization at the build stage by +passing an option -jX to +the top level Makefile from the vendor. The number X is set to the number of CPUs by default, and can be set +by users via a +make(1) variable +MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER. For more details, see ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.

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