From 8f7a5186cbfa7320defb7a5ed0e40bb50751f180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ade Barkah Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 08:38:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Various changes mainly that 2.2-RELEASE is out: o Added 2.2-RELEASE information pages o Updated sgml "latest" macros to 2.2-RELEASE o Updated where.sgml page, deleted 2.2-GAMMA entry o Shortened copyright mark to 1995-1997 o Changed Newsflash entries's Release Notes to use html versions when available; updated entry for 2.1.6 since 2.1.7 is available --- data/includes.sgml | 6 +- data/newsflash.sgml | 15 +- data/releases/2.2R/Makefile | 2 +- data/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml | 28 ++ data/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml | 511 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ data/releases/index.sgml | 47 ++- data/where.sgml | 8 +- en/includes.sgml | 6 +- en/news/newsflash.sgml | 15 +- en/releases/2.2R/Makefile | 2 +- en/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml | 28 ++ en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml | 511 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ en/releases/index.sgml | 47 ++- en/where.sgml | 8 +- 14 files changed, 1156 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) create mode 100644 data/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml create mode 100644 data/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml create mode 100644 en/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml create mode 100644 en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml diff --git a/data/includes.sgml b/data/includes.sgml index f5c957d009..1939cb3b47 100644 --- a/data/includes.sgml +++ b/data/includes.sgml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ - www@FreeBSD.ORG
©right;'> @@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ &home;
&author;
&date;
'> -'> -'> +'> +'> diff --git a/data/newsflash.sgml b/data/newsflash.sgml index 893e861bf0..3fa129aadc 100644 --- a/data/newsflash.sgml +++ b/data/newsflash.sgml @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ + %includes; ]> - + &header; @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Information page.

2.2-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the - - Release Notes for more information.

+ Release Notes + for more information.

@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Information page.

2.1.7-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the - - Release Notes for more information about it.

+ + Release Notes for more information.

  • 10-Feb-1997 FreeBSD @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ Information page.

    earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees. As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer - available from the FTP distribution sites. An update release - (provisionally "FreeBSD 2.1.7") is expected shortly. You can + available from the FTP distribution sites. You can read more about the problem and solution from the FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale security announcement. diff --git a/data/releases/2.2R/Makefile b/data/releases/2.2R/Makefile index 0fdde6f6b0..1ff5ac5fb6 100644 --- a/data/releases/2.2R/Makefile +++ b/data/releases/2.2R/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -DOCS= install-media.sgml +DOCS= announce.sgml install-media.sgml notes.sgml .include "../../web.mk" diff --git a/data/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml b/data/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c39f780252 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + +&header; + +

    It is our great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2, the +long-awaited first release of our 2.2 branch technology following +lengthy ALPHA, BETA and GAMMA testing cycles.

    + +

    FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available on +ftp.freebsd.org and +various FTP mirror sites +throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from +Walnut Creek CDROM, from +where it will be shipping shortly.

    + +

    FreeBSD 2.2 represents a rather large leap in functionality from the +2.1.x releases, everyone being is strongly encouraged to read the +release notes for a list +of new features.

    + +&footer; + + diff --git a/data/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml b/data/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1a42d8a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,511 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + + + +&header; + +
    +                                 RELEASE NOTES
+                              FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE
+
+1. What's new since 2.1.7
+-------------------------
+
+Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes syncronized, geeze,
+what else?
+
+gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source
+now lives under /usr/src/contrib.
+
+Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware.
+
+The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection
+between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the
+version using the co-processor is now fully automatic.  This will speed
+up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile
+their `libm' previously.
+
+Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support
+for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards.
+
+The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the
+popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one.
+
+There's now a workaround for the brokeness of the frequently used
+CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default
+in 2.2.
+
+The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option,
+including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session
+with dset(8).  This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to
+install the system on their hardware.
+
+Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card.
+
+Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors
+as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using
+the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and
+remove the old ones).
+
+Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset.
+
+Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols.
+
+Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and
+cleaning up the source tree accordingly.
+
+Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths.
+
+Update sgmlfmt to `instant'.
+
+Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC
+1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell)
+drivers.
+
+/stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general
+system management tool.
+
+The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard
+driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with
+their mutual interaction.
+
+Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8)
+utility.
+
+2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the
+Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives.  The
+driver is still under development (in particular to extend its
+usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable
+by now.
+
+Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources
+shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree.  There are also
+other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2
+server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the
+specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix).
+
+Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD
+malloc implementation.  This usually saves a lot of virtual memory
+for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the
+program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or
+freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in
+programs that use malloc.
+
+The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into
+the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Wistle Communic-
+ations Corp.
+
+The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS
+file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs.
+This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like
+rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash.
+The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be
+drastically accelerated by this.  (A bindist-only installation from a
+SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast
+machine!)
+
+The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an
+impressive number of drives.  In other words, all the drives that
+basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work.
+
+There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep
+them in mind.  Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T
+controllers.  These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the
+driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that
+chip.  Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the
+FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy
+their product.  The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config-
+uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000
+clones and the AMD PCnet chips.  The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as
+well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver.
+
+The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support.
+To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared
+libraries, and for the Slackware development environment.
+
+Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is
+reported to be working well now.
+
+FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been
+decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default
+binary format some day.
+
+A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared
+linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator
+(FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used.  This works around
+one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the
+ABI it belongs to.
+
+Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape.
+
+The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel
+programming interfaces.  We are still seeking volunteers to document
+interfaces here!
+
+The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away
+from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h"
+kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again.
+We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away
+on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon.  Unless you're changing
+weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8),
+or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for
+you.  See also the comments in the handbook about how it works.
+
+
+2. Supported Configurations
+---------------------------
+
+FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
+based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
+386sx is not recommended).  Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
+configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
+also provided.
+
+What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
+FreeBSD.  Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
+received confirmation of this.
+
+
+2.1. Disk Controllers
+---------------------
+
+WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
+WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
+IDE
+ATA
+
+Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
+Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
+Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
+controllers.
+Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
+
+Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
+and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
+
+** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
+   on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
+   system BIOS I/O vectors.  They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
+   CDROMs, etc, however.  The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
+   without a boot ROM.  Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
+   indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
+   or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
+   Check your system/board documentation for more details.
+
+Buslogic 545S & 545c
+Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
+Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
+Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
+Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
+
+SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
+controllers:
+	ASUS SC-200
+  	Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
+	NCR cards (all)
+	Symbios cards (all)
+	Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
+	Tyan S1365
+
+Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
+AMD 53c974 as well).
+
+NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. 
+
+DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
+
+UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
+
+Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
+
+Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
+
+WD7000 SCSI controller.
+
+With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
+SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
+DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
+
+The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
+(cd)    SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
+        SoundBlaster SCSI)
+(mcd)   Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models)
+(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
+        interface (562/563 models)
+(scd)   Sony proprietary interface (all models)
+(wcd)   ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA
+        quality!).
+
+
+2.2. Ethernet cards
+-------------------
+
+Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
+
+AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
+
+SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
+WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
+based clones.  SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
+
+DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
+DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
+DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
+DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
+
+Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
+
+HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
+
+Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
+Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
+Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
+
+Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
+Isolink 4110     (8 bit)
+
+Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
+
+3Com 3C501 cards
+
+3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
+
+3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
+
+3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
+
+3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
+(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
+
+Toshiba ethernet cards
+
+PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
+supported.
+
+Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
+still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them.  Any
+takers?
+
+
+2.3. Misc
+---------
+
+AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+
+ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
+
+Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
+Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
+Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
+Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
+
+Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
+
+STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
+
+SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
+SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
+
+Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
+ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
+
+Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
+and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
+
+Connectix QuickCam
+Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
+Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
+Cortex1 frame grabber
+
+HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives.
+
+PS/2 mice
+
+Standard PC Joystick
+
+X-10 power controllers
+
+GPIB and Transputer drivers.
+
+Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
+
+
+FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
+
+
+3. Obtaining FreeBSD
+--------------------
+
+You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
+
+3.1. FTP/Mail
+-------------
+
+You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
+`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
+
+For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
+MIRROR.SITES.  Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
+networking terms) to you.  Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
+Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to 
+become an official mirror site.
+
+If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
+only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
+`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
+to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
+Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
+megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
+LAST resort!
+
+
+3.2. CDROM
+----------
+
+FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
+
+        Walnut Creek CDROM
+        4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
+        Concord CA  94520
+        1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
+
+Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
+Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
+        ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
+
+Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
+FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
+(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate).  With a
+subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
+Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
+your subscription at any time without further obligation.
+
+Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
+and $9.00 overseas.  They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
+Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
+States.  California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
+
+Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
+unconditional return policy.
+
+
+4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
+valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
+(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
+
+The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
+Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
+script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html.  Bug reports
+will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
+be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
+as possible.  Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
+in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
+and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
+watch out for.
+
+If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
+submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
+
+                freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
+
+Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
+even onto a totally different system.  We much prefer if you could use
+this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
+reports.  However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
+the problem might have already been fixed since.
+
+
+Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
+
+                freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
+extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
+enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves!  To
+contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
+mail to:
+
+                freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
+amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
+are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
+may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
+
+                freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
+to do so.  Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
+`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message.  This
+will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
+archives, etc.  There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
+special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
+and ask about them!
+
+
+5. Acknowledgements
+-------------------
+
+FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
+hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
+hard to bring you this release.  For a complete list of FreeBSD
+project staffers, please see:
+
+        http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html
+
+or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
+
+        file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
+
+Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
+
+        Coranth Gryphon            Dave Rivers 
+        Kaleb S. Keithley          Terry Lambert
+        David Dawes                Don Lewis
+
+Special mention to:
+
+        Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
+        this release would never have been possible.
+
+        Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
+        drive.
+
+        Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
+        testing.
+
+        Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
+        and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
+
+	CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for
+	speedy package building.
+
+        Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
+
+        And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
+        world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
+
+We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
+
+                        The FreeBSD Project
+
+
    + +&footer; + + diff --git a/data/releases/index.sgml b/data/releases/index.sgml index 856cbaab41..3999c324a8 100644 --- a/data/releases/index.sgml +++ b/data/releases/index.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - + %includes; ]> @@ -11,38 +11,37 @@

    Recent announcements about FreeBSD Releases.

    -

    Current Release

    +

    Current Releases

    +

    Future Releases

    - @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Information page.

    2.1.7-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the - - Release Notes for more information about it.

    • + + Release Notes for more information.

  • 10-Feb-1997 FreeBSD @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ Information page.

    earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees. As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer - available from the FTP distribution sites. An update release - (provisionally "FreeBSD 2.1.7") is expected shortly. You can + available from the FTP distribution sites. You can read more about the problem and solution from the FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale security announcement. diff --git a/en/releases/2.2R/Makefile b/en/releases/2.2R/Makefile index 0fdde6f6b0..1ff5ac5fb6 100644 --- a/en/releases/2.2R/Makefile +++ b/en/releases/2.2R/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -DOCS= install-media.sgml +DOCS= announce.sgml install-media.sgml notes.sgml .include "../../web.mk" diff --git a/en/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml b/en/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c39f780252 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + +&header; + +

    It is our great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2, the +long-awaited first release of our 2.2 branch technology following +lengthy ALPHA, BETA and GAMMA testing cycles.

    + +

    FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available on +ftp.freebsd.org and +various FTP mirror sites +throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from +Walnut Creek CDROM, from +where it will be shipping shortly.

    + +

    FreeBSD 2.2 represents a rather large leap in functionality from the +2.1.x releases, everyone being is strongly encouraged to read the +release notes for a list +of new features.

    + +&footer; + + diff --git a/en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml b/en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1a42d8a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,511 @@ + + + + %includes; +]> + + + +&header; + +
    +                                 RELEASE NOTES
+                              FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE
+
+1. What's new since 2.1.7
+-------------------------
+
+Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes syncronized, geeze,
+what else?
+
+gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source
+now lives under /usr/src/contrib.
+
+Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware.
+
+The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection
+between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the
+version using the co-processor is now fully automatic.  This will speed
+up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile
+their `libm' previously.
+
+Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support
+for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards.
+
+The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the
+popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one.
+
+There's now a workaround for the brokeness of the frequently used
+CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default
+in 2.2.
+
+The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option,
+including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session
+with dset(8).  This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to
+install the system on their hardware.
+
+Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card.
+
+Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors
+as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using
+the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and
+remove the old ones).
+
+Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset.
+
+Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols.
+
+Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and
+cleaning up the source tree accordingly.
+
+Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths.
+
+Update sgmlfmt to `instant'.
+
+Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC
+1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell)
+drivers.
+
+/stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general
+system management tool.
+
+The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard
+driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with
+their mutual interaction.
+
+Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8)
+utility.
+
+2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the
+Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives.  The
+driver is still under development (in particular to extend its
+usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable
+by now.
+
+Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources
+shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree.  There are also
+other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2
+server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the
+specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix).
+
+Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD
+malloc implementation.  This usually saves a lot of virtual memory
+for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the
+program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or
+freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in
+programs that use malloc.
+
+The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into
+the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Wistle Communic-
+ations Corp.
+
+The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS
+file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs.
+This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like
+rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash.
+The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be
+drastically accelerated by this.  (A bindist-only installation from a
+SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast
+machine!)
+
+The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an
+impressive number of drives.  In other words, all the drives that
+basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work.
+
+There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep
+them in mind.  Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T
+controllers.  These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the
+driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that
+chip.  Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the
+FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy
+their product.  The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config-
+uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000
+clones and the AMD PCnet chips.  The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as
+well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver.
+
+The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support.
+To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared
+libraries, and for the Slackware development environment.
+
+Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is
+reported to be working well now.
+
+FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been
+decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default
+binary format some day.
+
+A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared
+linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator
+(FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used.  This works around
+one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the
+ABI it belongs to.
+
+Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape.
+
+The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel
+programming interfaces.  We are still seeking volunteers to document
+interfaces here!
+
+The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away
+from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h"
+kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again.
+We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away
+on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon.  Unless you're changing
+weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8),
+or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for
+you.  See also the comments in the handbook about how it works.
+
+
+2. Supported Configurations
+---------------------------
+
+FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
+based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
+386sx is not recommended).  Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
+configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
+also provided.
+
+What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
+FreeBSD.  Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
+received confirmation of this.
+
+
+2.1. Disk Controllers
+---------------------
+
+WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
+WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
+IDE
+ATA
+
+Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
+Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
+Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
+Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
+controllers.
+Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
+
+Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
+and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
+
+** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
+   on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
+   system BIOS I/O vectors.  They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
+   CDROMs, etc, however.  The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
+   without a boot ROM.  Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
+   indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
+   or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
+   Check your system/board documentation for more details.
+
+Buslogic 545S & 545c
+Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
+Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
+Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
+Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
+
+SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
+controllers:
+	ASUS SC-200
+  	Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
+	NCR cards (all)
+	Symbios cards (all)
+	Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
+	Tyan S1365
+
+Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
+AMD 53c974 as well).
+
+NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. 
+
+DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
+
+UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
+
+Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
+
+Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
+
+WD7000 SCSI controller.
+
+With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
+SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
+DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
+
+The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
+(cd)    SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
+        SoundBlaster SCSI)
+(mcd)   Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models)
+(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
+        interface (562/563 models)
+(scd)   Sony proprietary interface (all models)
+(wcd)   ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA
+        quality!).
+
+
+2.2. Ethernet cards
+-------------------
+
+Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
+
+AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
+
+SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
+WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
+based clones.  SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
+
+DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
+DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
+DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
+DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
+
+Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
+
+HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
+
+Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
+Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
+Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
+
+Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
+Isolink 4110     (8 bit)
+
+Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
+
+3Com 3C501 cards
+
+3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
+
+3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
+
+3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
+
+3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
+(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
+
+Toshiba ethernet cards
+
+PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
+supported.
+
+Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
+still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them.  Any
+takers?
+
+
+2.3. Misc
+---------
+
+AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+
+ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
+
+Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
+Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
+Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
+Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
+
+Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
+
+STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
+
+SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
+SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
+
+Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
+ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
+
+Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
+and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
+
+Connectix QuickCam
+Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
+Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
+Cortex1 frame grabber
+
+HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives.
+
+PS/2 mice
+
+Standard PC Joystick
+
+X-10 power controllers
+
+GPIB and Transputer drivers.
+
+Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
+
+
+FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
+
+
+3. Obtaining FreeBSD
+--------------------
+
+You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
+
+3.1. FTP/Mail
+-------------
+
+You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
+`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
+
+For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
+MIRROR.SITES.  Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
+networking terms) to you.  Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
+Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to 
+become an official mirror site.
+
+If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
+only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
+`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
+to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
+Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
+megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
+LAST resort!
+
+
+3.2. CDROM
+----------
+
+FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
+
+        Walnut Creek CDROM
+        4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
+        Concord CA  94520
+        1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
+
+Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
+Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
+        ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
+
+Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
+FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
+(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate).  With a
+subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
+Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
+your subscription at any time without further obligation.
+
+Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
+and $9.00 overseas.  They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
+Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
+States.  California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
+
+Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
+unconditional return policy.
+
+
+4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
+valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
+(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
+
+The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
+Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
+script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html.  Bug reports
+will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
+be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
+as possible.  Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
+in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
+and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
+watch out for.
+
+If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
+submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
+
+                freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
+
+Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
+even onto a totally different system.  We much prefer if you could use
+this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
+reports.  However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
+the problem might have already been fixed since.
+
+
+Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
+
+                freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
+extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
+enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves!  To
+contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
+mail to:
+
+                freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
+amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
+are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
+may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
+
+                freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
+to do so.  Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
+`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message.  This
+will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
+archives, etc.  There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
+special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
+and ask about them!
+
+
+5. Acknowledgements
+-------------------
+
+FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
+hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
+hard to bring you this release.  For a complete list of FreeBSD
+project staffers, please see:
+
+        http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html
+
+or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
+
+        file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
+
+Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
+
+        Coranth Gryphon            Dave Rivers 
+        Kaleb S. Keithley          Terry Lambert
+        David Dawes                Don Lewis
+
+Special mention to:
+
+        Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
+        this release would never have been possible.
+
+        Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
+        drive.
+
+        Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
+        testing.
+
+        Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
+        and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
+
+	CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for
+	speedy package building.
+
+        Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
+
+        And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
+        world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
+
+We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
+
+                        The FreeBSD Project
+
+
    + +&footer; + + diff --git a/en/releases/index.sgml b/en/releases/index.sgml index 856cbaab41..3999c324a8 100644 --- a/en/releases/index.sgml +++ b/en/releases/index.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - + %includes; ]> @@ -11,38 +11,37 @@

    Recent announcements about FreeBSD Releases.

    -

    Current Release

    +

    Current Releases

      -
    • Release 2.1.7 RELEASE (February 19, 1997) +
    • Release 2.2 RELEASE (March 16, 1997) &a.latest.ann;Announcement : &a.latest.not;Release Notes.
      If you wish to obtain this release, please see Obtaining and Installing - FreeBSD for details. -
      • + href="../where.html">Getting FreeBSD for details. +

      + +
    • Release 2.1.7 RELEASE (February 20, 1997) + + Announcement : + Release Notes. + +
      + This latest release from our + FreeBSD-stable branch + is also available. +
      + Please see Getting FreeBSD for details.
    +

    Future Releases

    -