diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 31ef0474e43..f975baad04a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -502,8 +502,8 @@ The &man.em.4; driver now includes initial support for suspend and resume features. - The &man.em.4; driver has been improved on - its performance by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue + The performance of the &man.em.4; driver has been improved + by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue instead of ithread handler. This change can be disabled by defining NO_EM_FASTINTR kernel option for debugging purpose. @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; - The &man.re.4; driver now supports D-Link DGE-528(T) + The &man.re.4; driver now supports the D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet card. The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; @@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ to suppress logging of attempts to modify permanent ARP entries. &merged; - The &man.arp.8; utility now allows - option with and options + The &man.arp.8; utility now allows the + option together with the and options to allow all entries for a given interface to be removed. An experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler @@ -590,14 +590,14 @@ &man.if.bridge.4;. The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation - found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE. + found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702, now supports IPv6 over GRE. - The &man.if.bridge.4; bridge driver now supports + The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports creating span ports, which transmit a copy of every frame received by the bridge. This feature can be enabled by using &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged; - The &man.if.bridge.4; bridge driver now supports + The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports RFC 3378 EtherIP. This change makes it possible to add &man.gif.4; interfaces to bridges, which will then send and receive IP protocol 97 packets. @@ -647,13 +647,13 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred with Solaris NFS servers. &merged; - The sysctl variable net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh + The sysctl variables net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh and net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow can be used with IPv6 now. A new sysctl variable net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface has been added. This allows the &man.icmp.4; - reply to non-local packets generated with + reply to non-local packets to be generated with the IP address the packet came through in. This is useful for routers to show in &man.traceroute.8; the actual path a packet has taken instead of @@ -708,38 +708,38 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines. - The &man.amr.4; driver has been improved on its performance - and now supports full 64-bit DMA. While this feature is + The performance of the &man.amr.4; driver has been improved; + it also now supports full 64-bit DMA. While this feature is enabled by default, this can be forced off by setting the hw.amr.force_sg32 loader tunable for debugging purpose. &merged; - The &man.amr.4; driver now supports &man.ioctl.2; requests - necessary for Linux LSI MegaRaid tools on &os;'s Linux emulation + The &man.amr.4; driver now supports the &man.ioctl.2; requests + necessary for the Linux LSI MegaRaid tools in &os;'s Linux emulation environment. &merged; The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly - in 48bit mode. For the suspicious controllers - the PIO mode will be used for access to over 137GB areas. + in 48bit mode. For affected controllers, + PIO mode will be used for access to areas beyond 137GB. &merged; The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller, - and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise + and the Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise Fasttrak TX4300. &merged; - The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dump - and crash dumping to &man.ataraid.4; device. + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dumps + and crash dumping to an &man.ataraid.4; device. &merged; The &man.ata.4; driver now supports USB mass storage class devices. To enable it, a line device atausb in the kernel configuration file or loading the atausb kernel module is needed. - Note that this conflicts &man.umass.4; and cannot coexist with + Note that this conflicts with &man.umass.4; and cannot coexist with each other. The &man.ataraid.4; driver now supports @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any Ext2FS, NTFS, and ReiserFS. &merged; The GEOM_MIRROR class now supports - kernel crash dump to the GEOM providers. + kernel crash dumps to the GEOM providers. &merged; The GEOM_MIRROR and GEOM_RAID3 @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The default value is 1 to preserve the current behavior, and if it is set to 0 such components are not disconnected and the kernel will try to still use them - (only first error will be logged). + (only the first error will be logged). This is helpful for the case of multiple broken components (in different places), so actually all data is available. The broken components will be visible in gmirror list @@ -784,8 +784,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any &merged; A new GEOM class GEOM_ZERO has been added. - It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero - and mainly for performance testing. + It creates a very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero + and is mainly useful for performance testing. On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does nothing. @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for more information. &merged; - The &man.geli.8; now supports loading keyfiles before root + The &man.geli.8; now supports loading keyfiles before the root file system is mounted. &merged; For example, the following entries can be used in /boot/loader.conf to enable @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" PLAY_TRACK_REL, PAUSE, PLAY_12 commands so that - the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle USB CD drive. + the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle a USB CD drive. @@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE. - An initial support of SGI's XFS filesystem has been + Initial support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added. @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" DRM has been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20051202. &merged; - TrustedBSD OpenBSM distribution, + TrustedBSD OpenBSM, version 1.0 alpha 5, an implementation of the documented Sun Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API and file format, as well as local extensions to support the Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems @@ -887,14 +887,14 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Padding of ai_addrlen in struct addrinfo has been removed, which was originally for the ABI compatibility. - For example, this change break the ABI compatibility of + For example, this change breaks the ABI compatibility of the &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architecture including &os;/alpha, &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64. - OpenBSM userland tools including &man.audit.8;, + The OpenBSM userland tools, including &man.audit.8;, &man.auditd.8;, - &man.auditreduce.1;, - &man.praudit.1; have been added. + &man.auditreduce.1;, and + &man.praudit.1;, have been added. The &man.bsdiff.1; and &man.bspatch.1; utilities have been added. These are tools for constructing and @@ -921,8 +921,8 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" &merged; The csup(1) utility has been imported. - This is an implementation of CVSup-compatible client written - in C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode + This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written + in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode only. The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in @@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a flag to suppress warnings. - The &man.kgdb.1; now supports a + &man.kgdb.1; now supports a option to open kmem-based targets in read-write mode. This allows one to use kgdb on /dev/mem and be able to patch memory on a live system. @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.mount.8; nodev option has been removed. - The &man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;. + &man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;. The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an flag to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a @@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" pidfiles handling, has been implemented in libutil. &merged; - The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a sweeping + The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a sweeping ping in which &man.icmp.4; payload of packets being sent is increased with given step. This is useful for testing problematic channels, MTU issues @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The DNS resolver library in &os;'s libc has been updated to BIND9's one. - The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; now supports service name + The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names in addition to option with channel number. The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax), LAN (LAN Access Using PPP), and SP (Serial Port). &merged; @@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" flag which makes the command execution when the standard input does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged; - The shared library version number of all libraries have + The shared library version number of all libraries has been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive, @@ -1250,13 +1250,13 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.168.0.1/24 192.168.1.1-5/28" - The rcconf.sh in /etc/rc.d + The rcconf.sh script in /etc/rc.d has been removed and a variable early_late_divider, which designates the script to separate the early and late stages of the boot process, has been added. - The rc.initdiskless now uses &man.tar.1; - instead of &man.pax.1; because the &man.pax.1; needs a writable + The rc.initdiskless script now uses &man.tar.1; + instead of &man.pax.1; because &man.pax.1; needs a writable temporary directory. The pccard script has been removed @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure - The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an + &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an flag to disable checking whether the same package is already installed or not. @@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The @cwd command in pkg-plist now allows - no directory argument. If no + the case where no directory argument is given. If no directory argument is given, it will set current working directory to the first prefix given by the @cwd command. &merged; diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 31ef0474e43..f975baad04a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -502,8 +502,8 @@ The &man.em.4; driver now includes initial support for suspend and resume features. - The &man.em.4; driver has been improved on - its performance by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue + The performance of the &man.em.4; driver has been improved + by using a fast interrupt handler and taskqueue instead of ithread handler. This change can be disabled by defining NO_EM_FASTINTR kernel option for debugging purpose. @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ The &man.pcn.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; - The &man.re.4; driver now supports D-Link DGE-528(T) + The &man.re.4; driver now supports the D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet card. The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; @@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ to suppress logging of attempts to modify permanent ARP entries. &merged; - The &man.arp.8; utility now allows - option with and options + The &man.arp.8; utility now allows the + option together with the and options to allow all entries for a given interface to be removed. An experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler @@ -590,14 +590,14 @@ &man.if.bridge.4;. The &man.gre.4; driver, which is for GRE encapsulation - found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702 now supports IPv6 over GRE. + found in RFC 1701 and RFC 1702, now supports IPv6 over GRE. - The &man.if.bridge.4; bridge driver now supports + The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports creating span ports, which transmit a copy of every frame received by the bridge. This feature can be enabled by using &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged; - The &man.if.bridge.4; bridge driver now supports + The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports RFC 3378 EtherIP. This change makes it possible to add &man.gif.4; interfaces to bridges, which will then send and receive IP protocol 97 packets. @@ -647,13 +647,13 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred with Solaris NFS servers. &merged; - The sysctl variable net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh + The sysctl variables net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh and net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow can be used with IPv6 now. A new sysctl variable net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface has been added. This allows the &man.icmp.4; - reply to non-local packets generated with + reply to non-local packets to be generated with the IP address the packet came through in. This is useful for routers to show in &man.traceroute.8; the actual path a packet has taken instead of @@ -708,38 +708,38 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The &man.aac.4; driver now supports the Adaptec 2610SA SATA-RAID controller in some Hewlett-Packard machines. - The &man.amr.4; driver has been improved on its performance - and now supports full 64-bit DMA. While this feature is + The performance of the &man.amr.4; driver has been improved; + it also now supports full 64-bit DMA. While this feature is enabled by default, this can be forced off by setting the hw.amr.force_sg32 loader tunable for debugging purpose. &merged; - The &man.amr.4; driver now supports &man.ioctl.2; requests - necessary for Linux LSI MegaRaid tools on &os;'s Linux emulation + The &man.amr.4; driver now supports the &man.ioctl.2; requests + necessary for the Linux LSI MegaRaid tools in &os;'s Linux emulation environment. &merged; The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a workaround for some controllers whose DMA does not work properly - in 48bit mode. For the suspicious controllers - the PIO mode will be used for access to over 137GB areas. + in 48bit mode. For affected controllers, + PIO mode will be used for access to areas beyond 137GB. &merged; The &man.ata.4; driver now supports the ITE IT8211F IDE controller, - and Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise + and the Promise PDC40718 and PDC40719 chip found in Promise Fasttrak TX4300. &merged; - The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dump - and crash dumping to &man.ataraid.4; device. + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports DMA for kernel crash dumps + and crash dumping to an &man.ataraid.4; device. &merged; The &man.ata.4; driver now supports USB mass storage class devices. To enable it, a line device atausb in the kernel configuration file or loading the atausb kernel module is needed. - Note that this conflicts &man.umass.4; and cannot coexist with + Note that this conflicts with &man.umass.4; and cannot coexist with each other. The &man.ataraid.4; driver now supports @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any Ext2FS, NTFS, and ReiserFS. &merged; The GEOM_MIRROR class now supports - kernel crash dump to the GEOM providers. + kernel crash dumps to the GEOM providers. &merged; The GEOM_MIRROR and GEOM_RAID3 @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any The default value is 1 to preserve the current behavior, and if it is set to 0 such components are not disconnected and the kernel will try to still use them - (only first error will be logged). + (only the first error will be logged). This is helpful for the case of multiple broken components (in different places), so actually all data is available. The broken components will be visible in gmirror list @@ -784,8 +784,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any &merged; A new GEOM class GEOM_ZERO has been added. - It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero - and mainly for performance testing. + It creates a very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero + and is mainly useful for performance testing. On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does nothing. @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any and supports different cryptographic algorithms. See &man.geli.8; for more information. &merged; - The &man.geli.8; now supports loading keyfiles before root + The &man.geli.8; now supports loading keyfiles before the root file system is mounted. &merged; For example, the following entries can be used in /boot/loader.conf to enable @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" PLAY_TRACK_REL, PAUSE, PLAY_12 commands so that - the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle USB CD drive. + the &man.cdcontrol.1; utility can handle a USB CD drive. @@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" A part of the FreeBSD NFS subsystem (the interface with the protocol stack and callouts) is now MPSAFE. - An initial support of SGI's XFS filesystem has been + Initial support for SGI's XFS filesystem has been added. @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" DRM has been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20051202. &merged; - TrustedBSD OpenBSM distribution, + TrustedBSD OpenBSM, version 1.0 alpha 5, an implementation of the documented Sun Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API and file format, as well as local extensions to support the Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems @@ -887,14 +887,14 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Padding of ai_addrlen in struct addrinfo has been removed, which was originally for the ABI compatibility. - For example, this change break the ABI compatibility of + For example, this change breaks the ABI compatibility of the &man.getaddrinfo.3; function on 64-bit architecture including &os;/alpha, &os;/amd64, &os;/ia64, and &os;/sparc64. - OpenBSM userland tools including &man.audit.8;, + The OpenBSM userland tools, including &man.audit.8;, &man.auditd.8;, - &man.auditreduce.1;, - &man.praudit.1; have been added. + &man.auditreduce.1;, and + &man.praudit.1;, have been added. The &man.bsdiff.1; and &man.bspatch.1; utilities have been added. These are tools for constructing and @@ -921,8 +921,8 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" &merged; The csup(1) utility has been imported. - This is an implementation of CVSup-compatible client written - in C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode + This is an implementation of a CVSup-compatible client written + in the C language. Note that it currently supports checkout mode only. The &man.dhclient.8; program now sends the host's name in @@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a flag to suppress warnings. - The &man.kgdb.1; now supports a + &man.kgdb.1; now supports a option to open kmem-based targets in read-write mode. This allows one to use kgdb on /dev/mem and be able to patch memory on a live system. @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The &man.mount.8; nodev option has been removed. - The &man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;. + &man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;. The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an flag to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a @@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" pidfiles handling, has been implemented in libutil. &merged; - The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a sweeping + The &man.ping.8; utility now supports a sweeping ping in which &man.icmp.4; payload of packets being sent is increased with given step. This is useful for testing problematic channels, MTU issues @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The DNS resolver library in &os;'s libc has been updated to BIND9's one. - The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; now supports service name + The &man.rfcomm.sppd.1; program now supports service names in addition to option with channel number. The supported names are: DUN (Dial-Up Networking), FAX (Fax), LAN (LAN Access Using PPP), and SP (Serial Port). &merged; @@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" flag which makes the command execution when the standard input does not contain any non-whitespace-characters. &merged; - The shared library version number of all libraries have + The shared library version number of all libraries has been updated due to some possible ABI changes. The libraries include: snmp_*, libdialog, libg2c, libobjc, libreadline, libregex, libstdc++, libkrb5, libalias, libarchive, @@ -1250,13 +1250,13 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.168.0.1/24 192.168.1.1-5/28" - The rcconf.sh in /etc/rc.d + The rcconf.sh script in /etc/rc.d has been removed and a variable early_late_divider, which designates the script to separate the early and late stages of the boot process, has been added. - The rc.initdiskless now uses &man.tar.1; - instead of &man.pax.1; because the &man.pax.1; needs a writable + The rc.initdiskless script now uses &man.tar.1; + instead of &man.pax.1; because &man.pax.1; needs a writable temporary directory. The pccard script has been removed @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure - The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an + &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an flag to disable checking whether the same package is already installed or not. @@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" The @cwd command in pkg-plist now allows - no directory argument. If no + the case where no directory argument is given. If no directory argument is given, it will set current working directory to the first prefix given by the @cwd command. &merged;