[src/trunk]: src move the basic history i wrote from raidctl(8) to raid(4), and

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

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/f3481d987d12
branches:  trunk
changeset: 1021338:f3481d987d12
user:      mrg <mrg%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Thu May 27 06:53:37 2021 +0000

description:
move the basic history i wrote from raidctl(8) to raid(4), and
fix the x86 (thanks simonb) and sparc bootable dates, a couple
of spelling errors.

diffstat:

 sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8 |  27 +++------------------------
 share/man/man4/raid.4  |  25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diffs (94 lines):

diff -r b519d87af38b -r f3481d987d12 sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8
--- a/sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8    Thu May 27 06:19:38 2021 +0000
+++ b/sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8    Thu May 27 06:53:37 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $NetBSD: raidctl.8,v 1.75 2021/05/26 08:23:18 mrg Exp $
+.\"     $NetBSD: raidctl.8,v 1.76 2021/05/27 06:53:37 mrg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
 .Dv RAID
 in the disklabel.
 Note that only certain architectures
-.Pq currently arc, alpha, amd64, bebox, cobalt, emips, i386, landisk,
-ofppc, pmax, sandpoint, sgimips, sparc, sparc64, and vax
+.Pq currently arc, alpha, amd64, bebox, cobalt, emips, evbarm, i386, landisk,
+ofppc, pmax, riscv, sandpoint, sgimips, sparc, sparc64, and vax
 support booting a kernel directly from a RAID set.
 Please note that
 .Ic forceroot
@@ -1569,27 +1569,6 @@
 for RAID Systems", by William V. Courtright II, Garth Gibson, Mark
 Holland, LeAnn Neal Reilly, and Jim Zelenka, and published by the
 Parallel Data Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University.
-.Pp
-RAIDframe was ported to
-.Nx
-by Greg Oster in 1998, who has maintained it since.
-In 1999, component labels, spares, automatic rebuilding of parity, and
-autoconfiguration of volumes were added.
-In 2000, root on RAID support was added (initially, with no support for
-loading kernels from RAID volumes, which has been added to many ports since.)
-In 2009, support for parity bimap was added, reducing parity resync time
-after a crash.
-In 2010, support for larger the 2TiB and non-512 sector devices was added.
-In 2018, support for 32-bit userland compatibility was added.
-In 2021, support for autoconfiguration from other-endian raid sets was added.
-.Pp
-Support for loading kernels from RAID 1 partitions was added for the
-alpha, pmax and vax ports in 2000, the the sgimips port in 2001,
-the x86 ports in 2003, the arc port in 2005, the landisk, sparc, and
-sparc64 ports in 2006, the cobalt port in 2007, the ofppc port in 2008,
-the bebox port in 2010, the emips port in 2011, and the sandpoint port
-in 2012.
-.Pp
 The
 .Nm
 command first appeared as a program in CMU's RAIDframe v1.1 distribution.
diff -r b519d87af38b -r f3481d987d12 share/man/man4/raid.4
--- a/share/man/man4/raid.4     Thu May 27 06:19:38 2021 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/raid.4     Thu May 27 06:53:37 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $NetBSD: raid.4,v 1.37 2013/12/01 00:17:14 christos Exp $
+.\"     $NetBSD: raid.4,v 1.38 2021/05/27 06:53:37 mrg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 .\" any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the
 .\" rights to redistribute these changes.
 .\"
-.Dd August 6, 2007
+.Dd May 26, 2021
 .Dt RAID 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -449,6 +449,27 @@
 .Nm
 driver first appeared in
 .Nx 1.4 .
+.Pp
+RAIDframe was ported to
+.Nx
+by Greg Oster in 1998, who has maintained it since.
+In 1999, component labels, spares, automatic rebuilding of parity, and
+autoconfiguration of volumes were added.
+In 2000, root on RAID support was added (initially, with no support for
+loading kernels from RAID volumes, which has been added to many ports since.)
+In 2009, support for parity bimap was added, reducing parity resync time
+after a crash.
+In 2010, support for larger than 2TiB and non-512 sector devices was added.
+In 2018, support for 32-bit userland compatibility was added.
+In 2021, support for autoconfiguration from other-endian raid sets was added.
+.Pp
+Support for loading kernels from RAID 1 partitions was added for the
+pmax, alpha, i386, and vax ports in 2000, the the sgimips port in 2001,
+the sparc, sparc64 and amd64 ports in 2002, the arc port in 2005, the
+landisk port in 2006, the cobalt port in 2007, the ofppc port in 2008,
+the bebox port in 2010, the emips port in 2011, and the sandpoint port
+in 2012.
+.Pp
 .Sh COPYRIGHT
 .Bd -unfilled
 The RAIDframe Copyright is as follows: