[src/netbsd-1-5]: src/distrib/notes/common Pull up revisions 1.109-1.111, 1.1...

[jhawk <jhawk%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/8e55bcfb6dcc
branches:  netbsd-1-5
changeset: 491778:8e55bcfb6dcc
user:      jhawk <jhawk%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon May 21 01:48:22 2001 +0000

description:
Pull up revisions 1.109-1.111, 1.114-1.118, 1.121, 1.123, 1.98-1.101, 1.103-1.104, 1.106-1.107 (requested by jhawk):
        Synchronize common part of release notes with the trunk.

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/common/main |  51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diffs (202 lines):

diff -r 2b53a27baff2 -r 8e55bcfb6dcc distrib/notes/common/main
--- a/distrib/notes/common/main Mon May 21 01:48:17 2001 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/main Mon May 21 01:48:22 2001 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.61.2.29 2001/05/09 22:38:13 he Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.61.2.30 2001/05/21 01:48:22 jhawk Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 .
 .so \*[.CURDIR]/../common/macros
 .
-.Dd April 7, 2001
+.Dd May 21, 2001
 .Dt INSTALL 8
 .Os NetBSD
 .Sh NAME
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 .Em after
 the point where the release cycle for 1.5 was started are designated
 by version identifiers such as 1.5A, 1.5B, etc.
-These identifisers do not designate releases, but indicate major changes
+These identifiers do not designate releases, but indicate major changes
 in internal kernel APIs.
 Note that the kernel from
 .Nx
@@ -173,12 +173,12 @@
 comparison between any of the intermediate development versions mentioned
 above and 1.5.1 to determine if a given feature is present or absent
 in 1.5.1.  The development of 1.5 and the subsequent ``point'' releases
-is done on a separate branch in the CVS repository which was created when
+is done on a separate branch in the CVS repository. The branch was created when
 the release cycle for 1.5 was started, and during the release cycle of
-1.5 and its patch releases, selective fixes and enhancements have been
+1.5 and its patch releases, selected fixes and enhancements have been
 imported from the main development trunk.
-So there are features in 1.5.1 which were not in e.g. 1.5B, but the
-reverse is most probably also true.
+So, there are features in 1.5.1 which were not in, e.g. 1.5B, and vice
+versa.
 .Ss Major Changes Between 1.5 and 1.5.1
 The complete list of changes between
 .Nx
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@
 .Xr siop 4
 driver has improved in performance and robustness.
 .It
-Support for cloning pseudo-interfaces has been added.
+Support for cloning pseudo-interfaces has been added. See
+.Xr ifconfig 8 .
 .It
 Support for 802.1Q virtual LANs has been added.
 See
@@ -208,8 +209,7 @@
 .Xr isp 4
 driver has been upgraded to (among other things) work on MacPPC.
 .It
-BIND has been upgraded to version 8.2.3.
-This fixes SA2001-001.
+BIND has been upgraded to version 8.2.3 (SA2001-001).
 .It
 Support for booting from RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors on i386 added.
 .It
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@
 .Xr ne 4 .
 .It
 The DHCP software has been upgraded to ISC version 3, Beta 2, patchlevel 23,
-to fix among many other things core dumps in
-.Xr dhclient 8 .
-Please note that the new
+to fix core dumps in
+.Xr dhclient 8 ,
+among other things.  Please note that the new
 .Xr dhcpd 8
 forces you to configure a "ddns-update-style" of either
 "ad-hoc", "interim" or "none".
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
 .Xr clct 4 ) have been added.
 .El
 .Pp
-In addition, many bugs have been fixed -- more than 95 problems
+In addition, many bugs have been fixed\(emmore than 95 problems
 reported through our problem tracking system have been fixed,
 and some other non-reported problems have also been found and fixed.
 See the CHANGES-1.5.1 file for the complete list.
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
 downgrade to a 1.5 kernel.
 .It
 The user-land tools which handle disklabels in 1.5.1 can not be
-used together with a 1.5 kernel.
+used running under a 1.5 kernel.
 .El
 .\}
 .Ss Changes Between The NetBSD 1.4 and 1.5 Releases
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
 Easier hot-pluggability of keyboards and mice using a new wscons
 device\(emwsmux.
 .It
-Improved PCMCIA and Cardbus support, including support for detaching
+Improved PCMCIA and CardBus support, including support for detaching
 of devices and cards, resulting in better support for notebooks and
 PDA devices.
 .It
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
 Due to this, the shlib major version for
 .Xr pcap 3
 is incremented and you may need to recompile userland tools.
-The KAME IPv6 part includes results from the unified-ipv6 effort.
+The KAME IPv6 part includes results from the unified-IPv6 effort.
 .bullet)
 .
 .Ss2 File system
@@ -552,8 +552,6 @@
 The package framework itself now has full wildcard dependency support.
 .bullet)
 .Pp
-As has been noted, there have also been innumerable bug fixes.
-.Pp
 Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and more subsystems
 and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look
 for this trend to continue.
@@ -1218,6 +1216,7 @@
 .It Ta Mark Brinicombe Ta Mt mark%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy arm32
 .It Ta Simon Burge Ta Mt simonb%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy pmax
 .It Ta Jeremy Cooper Ta Mt jeremy%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy sun3x
+.It Ta Matt Fredette Ta Mt fredette%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy sun2
 .It Ta Ross Harvey Ta Mt ross%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy alpha
 .It Ta "Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino" Ta Mt itojun%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy sh3
 .It Ta Ben Harris Ta Mt bjh21%netbsd.org@localhost Ta Sy arm26
@@ -1268,7 +1267,9 @@
 .It Ta Julian Assange Ta Mt proff%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Lennart Augustsson Ta Mt augustss%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Christoph Badura Ta Mt bad%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Dieter Baron Ta Mt dillo%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Robert V. Baron Ta Mt rvb%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Jason Beegan Ta Mt jtb%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Erik Berls Ta Mt cyber%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta John Birrell Ta Mt jb%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Mason Loring Bliss Ta Mt mason%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1276,6 +1277,7 @@
 .It Ta John Brezak Ta Mt brezak%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Allen Briggs Ta Mt briggs%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Aaron Brown Ta Mt abrown%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Andrew Brown Ta Mt atatat%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta David Brownlee Ta Mt abs%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Frederick Bruckman Ta Mt fredb%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Jon Buller Ta Mt jonb%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1335,6 +1337,8 @@
 .It Ta Chris Jones Ta Mt cjones%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Takahiro Kambe Ta Mt taca%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Antti Kantee Ta Mt pooka%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Masanori Kanaoka Ta Mt kanaoka%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta KAWAMOTO Yosihisa Ta Mt kawamoto%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Lawrence Kesteloot Ta Mt kesteloo%cs.unc.edu@localhost
 .It Ta Thomas Klausner Ta Mt wiz%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Klaus Klein Ta Mt kleink%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1347,6 +1351,7 @@
 .It Ta Joel Lindholm Ta Mt joel%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Mike Long Ta Mt mikel%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Warner Losh Ta Mt imp%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Tomasz Luchowski Ta Mt zuntum%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Federico Lupi Ta Mt federico%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Brett Lymn Ta Mt blymn%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Paul Mackerras Ta Mt paulus%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1359,7 +1364,10 @@
 .It Ta Joseph Myers Ta Mt jsm%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Ken Nakata Ta Mt kenn%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Bob Nestor Ta Mt rnestor%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta NISHIMURA Takeshi Ta Mt nsmrtks%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta NONAKA Kimihiro Ta Mt nonaka%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Jesse Off Ta Mt joff%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Tatoku Ogaito Ta Mt tacha%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Masaru Oki Ta Mt oki%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Atsushi Onoe Ta Mt onoe%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Greg Oster Ta Mt oster%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1367,6 +1375,7 @@
 .It Ta Matthias Pfaller Ta Mt matthias%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Dante Profeta Ta Mt dante%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Chris Provenzano Ta Mt proven%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Michael Rauch Ta Mt mrauch%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Waldi Ravens Ta Mt waldi%moacs.indiv.nl.net@localhost
 .It Ta Darren Reed Ta Mt darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Michael Richardson Ta Mt mcr%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1394,6 +1403,8 @@
 .It Ta Kevin Sullivan Ta Mt sullivan%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta SUNAGAWA Keiki Ta Mt kei%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Kimmo Suominen Ta Mt kim%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta TAMURA Kent Ta Mt kent%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Shin'ichiro TAYA Ta Mt taya%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Matt Thomas Ta Mt matt%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Christoph Toshok Ta Mt toshok%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta UCHIYAMA Yasushi Ta Mt uch%netbsd.org@localhost
@@ -1410,6 +1421,8 @@
 .It Ta Jim Wise Ta Mt jwise%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Michael Wolfson Ta Mt mbw%netbsd.org@localhost
 .It Ta Colin Wood Ta Mt ender%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Yuji Yamano Ta Mt yyamano%netbsd.org@localhost
+.It Ta Reinoud Zandijk Ta Mt reinoud%netbsd.org@localhost
 .
 .El
 .