[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes/common - more new ports

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

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/2521082b1183
branches:  trunk
changeset: 533787:2521082b1183
user:      lukem <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Jul 09 14:49:27 2002 +0000

description:
- more new ports
- more features
- improve display & details of 3rdparty updates
- add Ss2 sub section header for port specific stuff
- add 1.5 upgrade items, and refer to etc/postinstall
- add back ".if \n[FOR_RELEASE] \{\" i accidentally removed a couple of revs ago

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/common/main |  336 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)

diffs (truncated from 539 to 300 lines):

diff -r 2a37f4693db8 -r 2521082b1183 distrib/notes/common/main
--- a/distrib/notes/common/main Tue Jul 09 14:49:24 2002 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/main Tue Jul 09 14:49:27 2002 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.193 2002/07/09 11:16:53 lukem Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.194 2002/07/09 14:49:27 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 .
 .so \*[.CURDIR]/../common/macros
 .
-.Dd July 9, 2002
+.Dd July 10, 2002
 .Dt INSTALL 8
 .Os NetBSD
 .Sh NAME
@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@
 So, there are features in 1.6.1 which were not in, e.g. 1.6B, and vice
 versa.
 ..
+.if \n[FOR_RELEASE] \{\
 .Ss Changes Between The NetBSD 1.5 and 1.6 Releases
 .Pp
 The
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@
 release
 provides numerous significant functional enhancements, including
 support for many new devices, integration of hundreds of bug fixes,
-new and updated kernel subsystems, and many userland enhancements.
+new and updated kernel subsystems, and many user-land enhancements.
 The result of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for
 production use that rivals most commercially available systems.
 .Pp
@@ -447,7 +448,9 @@
 .
 .(bullet
 Ports to new platforms including:
+algor,
 evbarm,
+hpcarm,
 hpcsh,
 newsmips,
 sandpoint,
@@ -457,7 +460,8 @@
 walnut.
 .It
 Unified Buffer Cache (UBC) removes size restriction of the file system's
-buffer cache to use all available RAM (if not otherwise used!).
+buffer cache to use all available RAM (if not otherwise used!) and
+improves overall system performance.
 .It
 Road-robin page colouring implemented for various ports for better
 cache utilisation, more deterministic run-time behaviour, and faster
@@ -527,17 +531,23 @@
 loaning code for
 .Fn sosend .
 .It
+In-kernel ISDN support, from the ISDN4BSD project.
+.It
+802.1Q VLAN (virtual LAN) support.
+See
+.Xr vlan 4 .
+.It
 IPFilter now supports IPv6 filtering.
 .It
-Add
-.Xr ndbootd 8 ,
+.Xr ndbootd 8
+added;
 used to netboot
-.Nx Ns sun2
+.Nx Ns /sun2
 machines.
 .It
-Added the
 .Xr racoon 8
-IKE daemon from the KAME project, for IPsec key negotiation.
+added;
+IKE key management daemon for IPsec key negotiation, from the KAME project.
 .It
 WEP encryption supported in
 .Xr ifconfig 8
@@ -548,19 +558,21 @@
 .Xr wi 4
 and
 .Xr wiconfig 8
-now support scanning for access points.
+now support scanning for access points,
+and defaults to BSS instead of ad-hoc mode.
 .It
 Bridging support; currently only for ethernet.
 See
 .Xr bridge 4 .
 .It
-In-kernel PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE - RFC 2516).
-See 
+In-kernel PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) - RFC 2516,
+with much lower overhead than user-land PPPoE clients.
+See
 .Xr pppoe 8 .
 .It
-Add
 .Xr ifwatchd 8
-to invoke up-script and down-script when a network interface goes up and down.
+added;
+invokes up-script and down-script when a network interface goes up and down.
 Used by
 .Xr pppoe 8 .
 .bullet)
@@ -581,13 +593,30 @@
 .Fl F
 option to manipulate file system images in regular files.
 .It
-Added
-.Xr makefs 8 ,
-which creates file system images from a directory tree.
+.Xr makefs 8
+added;
+creates file system images from a directory tree.
 (Currently ffs only.)
 .It
-Add
-.Xr dpti 4 ,
+Enhanced
+.Fn ffs_dirpref
+by Grigoriy Orlov, which noticibly improves performance on FFS file systems
+when creating directories, and subsequently manipulating them.
+.It
+Fixes for free block tracking and directory block allocation in FFS softdeps.
+.It
+Correctly support FFS file systems with a large number of cylinder groups.
+.It
+Fix the endian independant FFS (FFS_EI) support.
+.It
+.Xr newfs 8 
+calculates default block size from the file system size,
+and uses the largest possible cylinders/group (cpg) value if
+.Fl c
+isn't given.
+.It
+.Xr dpti 4
+driver added;
 an implementation of the DPT/Adaptec SCSI/I2O RAID management interface.
 Allows the use of the Linux versions of
 .Ic dptmgr ,
@@ -621,6 +650,12 @@
 .Xr passwd.conf 5 .
 .It
 Several more code audits were performed.
+.It
+.Pa /etc/security
+performs many more checks and is far more flexible in how it monitors
+changes.
+See
+.Xr security.conf 5 .
 .
 .\" XXX: list security advisories here?
 .
@@ -629,15 +664,15 @@
 .Ss2 System administration and user tools
 .
 .(bullet
-Added
-.Xr sushi 8 ,
+.Xr sushi 8
+added;
 a menu based system administration tool.
 .It
-Added
 .Xr pgrep 1
 and
-.Xr pkill 1 ,
-to find or signal processes by name or other attributes.
+.Xr pkill 1
+added;
+find or signal processes by name or other attributes.
 .It
 System upgrades are made easier through the
 .Xr etcupdate 8
@@ -649,11 +684,38 @@
 that have occurred in
 .Nx .
 .It
-Added
-.Xr stat 1 ,
+.Xr stat 1
+added;
 a user interface to the information returned by the
 .Xr stat 2
 system call.
+.It
+BSD
+.Xr sort 1
+replaces
+GNU
+.Xr sort 1 .
+.It
+The
+.Dq stop
+operation for
+.Xr rc.d 8
+scripts waits until the service terminates before returning.
+This improves the reliability of
+.Dq restart
+operations as well.
+.It
+Swap devices can be removed at system shutdown by enabling
+.Li swapoff
+in
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
+.It
+An optional watchdog timer which will terminate
+.Xr rc.shutdown 8
+after the number of seconds provided in
+.Li rcshutdown_timeout
+from
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
 .bullet)
 .
 .Ss2 Miscellaneous
@@ -663,7 +725,8 @@
 Citrus project.
 Many Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other encodings are now available.
 .It
-Full support for cross-compilation of the base system!
+Full support for cross-compilation of the base system, even as a
+non-root user!
 .Pa src/build.sh
 is available for doing arbitrary cross-builds; see
 .Pa src/BUILDING
@@ -679,28 +742,49 @@
 .It
 Updates of most third party packages that are shipped in the base
 system to the following latest stable releases:
-amd 6.0.6,
-BIND 8.3.3,
-bzip2 1.0.2,
-cvs 1.11,
-dhcpd 3.0rc10,
-file 3.38,
-groff 1.16.1,
-Heimdal 0.4e,
-IPfilter 3.4.27,
-kerberos4 1.1,
-ksh from pdksh 5.2.14-patches.2,
-less 374,
-nvi 1.79,
-OpenSSH 3.4 ,
-OpenSSL 0.9.6a,
-Postfix 20010228-pl02,
-pppd 2.4.0,
-routed 2.24 ,
-sendmail 8.11.6,
-tcpdump 3.7.1,
-and
-XFree 4.2.0.
+.(bullet -compact -offset indent
+amd 6.0.6
+.It
+BIND 8.3.3
+.It
+bzip2 1.0.2
+.It
+cvs 1.11
+.It
+dhcp 3.0.1rc9
+.It
+file 3.38
+.It
+groff 1.16.1
+.It
+Heimdal 0.4e
+.It
+IPfilter 3.4.27
+.It
+kerberos4 1.1
+.It
+ksh from pdksh 5.2.14p2
+.It
+less 374
+.It
+nvi 1.79
+.It
+OpenSSH 3.4
+.It
+OpenSSL 0.9.6d
+.It
+Postfix 1.1.11
+.It
+ppp 2.4.0
+.It
+routed 2.24
+.It
+sendmail 8.11.6
+.It
+tcpdump 3.7.1
+.It
+XFree86 4.2.0