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1.1 lukem 2:
3:
4: [Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree.
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1.182 salo 7: containing just the word `help' to `majordomo@NetBSD.org'.]
1.1 lukem 8:
9:
1.663 riz 10: Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
1.988 xtraeme 11: evbppc: Add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202]
12: mac68k: Add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the
1.767 hauke 13: VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206]
1.988 xtraeme 14: ixp425: Add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210]
1.772 yamt 15: nfs: Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227]
1.988 xtraeme 16: mount_psshfs(8): Add puffs sshfs. [pooka 20061229]
17: zaurus: Add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105]
18: i386: Add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105]
1.962 apb 19: ntp: Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface
20: address changes is now supported - no more ntpd
21: restarts when interface addresses are re-configured
22: (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106]
1.988 xtraeme 23: kernel: Global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to
1.779 elad 24: the secmodel. [elad 20070110]
1.1004 xtraeme 25: GCC: Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111]
1.988 xtraeme 26: acpitools: Added from FreeBSD via fvdl. [christos 20070114]
27: scsictl(8): Added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the
1.782 bouyer 28: optical drive should use for reading data,
29: contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122]
1.988 xtraeme 30: i386, amd64: Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206]
1.790 ad 31: newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new
32: kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability
33: on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model
34: with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209]
1.788 tsutsui 35: news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210]
1.988 xtraeme 36: refuse: Added FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility
37: functionality, layered on top of libpuffs. [agc 20070211]
38: i386: Added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption
1.789 daniel 39: instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217]
1.791 rmind 40: sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219]
1.794 xtraeme 41: btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver.
42: [kiyohara 20070221]
43: btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon.
1.795 xtraeme 44: [kiyohara 20070221]
1.962 apb 45: mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226]
1.797 macallan 46: eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept
1.988 xtraeme 47: eeprom from actually changing firmware settings.
1.797 macallan 48: [macallan 20070228]
1.799 apb 49: MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions
50: defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303]
1.801 tsutsui 51: x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
52: luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
1.988 xtraeme 53: file(1): Update to 4.20. [pooka 20070304]
1.803 dillo 54: hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305]
1.988 xtraeme 55: ipv6: Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307]
1.1004 xtraeme 56: openssh: Import 4.6. [christos 20070310]
1.809 xtraeme 57: aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver,
1.810 xtraeme 58: adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313]
1.988 xtraeme 59: evbmips: Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320]
1.815 xtraeme 60: i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save
61: power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal
62: Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
1.816 xtraeme 63: See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320]
1.1004 xtraeme 64: kernel: Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled
1.955 rmind 65: by default. [drochner 20070320]
1.988 xtraeme 66: libc: Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328]
67: genfb: Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus
68: frontends. [macallan 20070411]
69: sgimips: Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and
70: onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412]
71: sgimips: Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from
72: OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412]
73: sparc64: Add support for hardware monitoring on
74: Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414]
75: puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416]
1.834 christos 76: xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our
77: GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418]
1.831 pooka 78: mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs.
79: [pooka 20070421]
1.832 dsl 80: kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used
81: to locate files within an emulation's root directory.
82: Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first.
1.835 dsl 83: [dsl 20070422]
1.1004 xtraeme 84: prep: Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN
1.838 garbled 85: based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426]
1.837 rmind 86: kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430]
1.843 pooka 87: puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer
88: management and event loop for networked file systems
1.988 xtraeme 89: using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and
1.1004 xtraeme 90: mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505]
1.962 apb 91: kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk
1.844 manu 92: at root mount time. [manu 20070508]
1.849 dyoung 93: pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state
94: policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating').
95: Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state
96: policies. [dyoung 20070510]
1.856 yamt 97: idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged.
98: 1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
99: 2. implement idle lwp.
100: 3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
101: 4. make scheduler(s) modular.
102: [yamt 20070518]
1.857 christos 103: ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths.
104: [christos 20070518]
1.988 xtraeme 105: uslsa(4): Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by
106: Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520]
1.861 ad 107: top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid.
108: Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs.
109: [ad 20070524]
1.863 blymn 110: libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a
1.988 xtraeme 111: Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529]
112: powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
1.865 blymn 113: smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of
1.988 xtraeme 114: the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601]
1.1004 xtraeme 115: file(1): Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607]
1.869 kiyohara 116: zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B
117: USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609]
1.871 tsutsui 118: mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver.
119: [tsutsui 20070610]
1.876 christos 120: tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change
1.988 xtraeme 121: connection timeout. [christos 20070620].
1.877 ginsbach 122: newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base
123: Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change
124: effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621]
1.878 mrg 125: GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620. [mrg 20070621]
1.879 kardel 126: ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624]
1.988 xtraeme 127: tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD).
1.880 christos 128: [christos 20070625]
1.988 xtraeme 129: fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627]
1.883 rumble 130: efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629]
1.962 apb 131: envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the
132: following features:
1.884 xtraeme 133: - Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency.
134: - Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8).
135: - Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel'
136: between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is
137: no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore.
138: - Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via
139: COMPAT_40.
140: And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more
141: information.
142: [xtraeme 20070701]
1.988 xtraeme 143: mount_puffsportal: Add experimental version of portalfs
1.887 pooka 144: based on puffs(3). [pooka 20070708]
1.888 jmcneill 145: i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD
146: Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708]
1.889 kiyohara 147: nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and
148: SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711]
1.890 macallan 149: dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712]
1.891 tsutsui 150: alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9)
151: with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721]
1.894 kiyohara 152: ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller.
153: [kiyohara 20070728]
1.895 jmmv 154: shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to
155: configure network interfaces through DHCP. [jmmv 20070729]
1.896 macallan 156: sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730]
1.897 jmmv 157: shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of
1.1004 xtraeme 158: pccons. [jmmv 20070731]
1.901 rmind 159: tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD.
160: [rmind 20070802]
1.898 kiyohara 161: agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD.
162: [kiyohara 20070804]
1.900 ad 163: cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline.
1.899 ad 164: [ad 20070804]
1.900 ad 165: libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around
166: thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with
167: detaching running threads. [ad 20070804]
1.904 pooka 168: rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump.
169: These are programs which compile in a part from the standard
170: kernel sources and run in userspace. Their main use is
1.1004 xtraeme 171: testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of
1.904 pooka 172: file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805]
1.905 macallan 173: wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with
1.1004 xtraeme 174: any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons.
1.905 macallan 175: [macallan 20070805]
1.906 hubertf 176: wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package
177: directory. [hubertf 20070806]
1.907 ad 178: libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue
179: that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare
180: circumstances. [ad 20070807]
1.988 xtraeme 181: mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809]
1.909 kiyohara 182: slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815]
1.910 tnn 183: spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes
184: technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types
185: of memory modules. [tnn 20070818]
1.911 kiyohara 186: btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820]
1.1020 drochner 187: libm: Add C99 complex support (float/double). [drochner 20070820]
1.913 xtraeme 188: ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on
189: ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can
190: be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from
1.912 xtraeme 191: FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826]
1.914 macallan 192: agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as
193: accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826]
1.915 macallan 194: ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with
195: acceleration. [macallan 20070830]
1.921 tshiozak 196: uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter.
197: [tshiozak 20070903]
1.988 xtraeme 198: amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906]
1.924 ad 199: libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL
200: sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900
201: simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before
202: serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907]
1.925 rmind 203: kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907]
1.962 apb 204: aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System,
1.926 xtraeme 205: provides support for some sensors exported through
206: the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery
207: from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911]
1.928 ad 208: i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel.
209: a number of changes have been made for LKM and
210: preemption safety. [ad 20070927]
211: i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels.
1.988 xtraeme 212: support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927]
1.931 oster 213: kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets.
214: [oster 20071004]
1.932 dyoung 215: kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network
216: stack to strip the protocol header from packets
217: received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005]
218: gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in
219: IPv6, and UDP in IPv4. The Mobile IP encapsulation
220: is no more. [dyoung 20071005]
1.936 ad 221: malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc',
222: designed to perform well in both single- and multi-
1.1004 xtraeme 223: threaded processes. This provides a significant
1.936 ad 224: performance boost for many threaded workloads that
225: make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006]
1.933 rmind 226: kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on
227: MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes,
1.934 rmind 228: ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009]
1.1003 garbled 229: powerpc, prep, pmppc, evbppc, macppc, ibmnws, bebox, sandpoint, ofwppc:
1.1004 xtraeme 230: Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
231: prep: Convert to generic powerpc PCI framework. [garbled 20071017]
232: powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
233: macppc: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework.
1.1003 garbled 234: [macallan 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 235: prep: Convert to generic powerpc ISA framework. [garbled 20071017]
236: bebox: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [matt 20071017]
237: prep: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
238: powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines.
1.1003 garbled 239: [garbled 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 240: prep: Convert to generic powerpc clock. [garbled 20071017]
241: sandpoint: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [nisimura 20071017]
242: sandpoint: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework.
1.1003 garbled 243: [nisimura 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 244: sandpoint: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/ISA framework.
1.1003 garbled 245: [nisimura 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 246: macppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI framework.
1.1003 garbled 247: [macallan 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 248: pmppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/interrupt framework.
1.1003 garbled 249: [garbled 20071017]
250: pmppc: Remove pmppc as a port, and move it to a supported board under
1.1004 xtraeme 251: evbppc. [garbled 20071017]
252: ibmnws: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework.
1.1003 garbled 253: [rjs 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 254: mvmeppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework.
1.1003 garbled 255: [garbled 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 256: powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
257: sandpoint: DHCP/NFS bootloader. [nisimura 20071017]
258: macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_dma. [matt 20071017]
259: macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_space. [garbled 20071017]
260: powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
261: ofppc: Completely rewrite ofppc port from scratch. [garbled 20071017]
262: bebox: Convert to generic powerpc PCI/ISA framework. [ober 20071017]
263: macppc: Use genfb as the default framebuffer instead of ofb.
1.1003 garbled 264: [macallan 20071017]
1.1004 xtraeme 265: macppc: Switch to new ADB subsystem. [macallan 20071017]
266: macppc: Add support for bus speed control found in some Intrepid-based
267: *Books like the 800MHz iBook G4. [macallan 20071017]
268: powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
269: macppc: Convert to generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
270: powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
271: macppc: Convert to generic powerpc SMP framework. [macallan 20071017]
272: prep: Convert to generic powerpc IPI/SMP framework. [garbled 20071017]
273: ofppc: New ofwpci configuration methods, add rtas device.
1.1003 garbled 274: [garbled 20071025]
1.988 xtraeme 275: shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028]
1.939 xtraeme 276: coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor,
277: available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD.
278: [xtraeme 20071029]
1.996 xtraeme 279: i386, amd64: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030]
1.1003 garbled 280: ofppc: Stop using ofbus driver, rewrite console code [garbled 20071104]
1.1004 xtraeme 281: ofppc, macppc: Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107]
1.943 xtraeme 282: nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides
1.942 xtraeme 283: 14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature
284: sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD.
285: [xtraeme 20071109]
1.944 plunky 286: btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and
287: and device storage. [plunky 20071109]
1.951 pooka 288: putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response
289: handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)).
290: [pooka 20071110]
1.945 jmcneill 291: pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw
292: PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111]
1.946 macallan 293: r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics
294: controllers. [macallan 20071111]
1.947 jmmv 295: atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3.
296: Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for
297: the NetBSD operating system. Work until 0.1 sponsored by
298: Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin.
299: [jmmv 20071112]
300: sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set.
301: [jmmv 20071112]
302: tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it
1.988 xtraeme 303: to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112]
1.947 jmmv 304: tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and
1.988 xtraeme 305: migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112]
1.947 jmmv 306: tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it
1.988 xtraeme 307: to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112]
1.948 bouyer 308: ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112]
1.949 tsutsui 309: newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command.
310: Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117]
1.988 xtraeme 311: i386, amd64: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader.
312: This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner
313: text and changing options such as timeouts and console device
1.950 sborrill 314: which previously required use of installboot.
315: [sborrill 20071120]
1.951 pooka 316: pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement
317: block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120]
1.952 bouyer 318: xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU.
319: [bouyer 20071122]
1.953 sborrill 320: i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to
321: select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily.
322: [sborrill 20071123]
1.956 tsutsui 323: libsa: Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201]
1.957 kiyohara 324: bcsp(4): Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202]
1.958 bouyer 325: toolchain: Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to
326: link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1).
327: [bouyer 20071202]
1.960 xtraeme 328: arcmsr(4): Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver,
1.959 xtraeme 329: ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204]
1.1014 tsutsui 330: fxp(4): Fix some TX timeout and RX pool corruption problems.
331: Mostly from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20071208]
1.1004 xtraeme 332: ofppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [garbled 20071210]
333: ofppc: Added support for the bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. [garbled 20071210]
334: sandpoint: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [nisimura 20071211]
335: macppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [macallan 20071211]
1.963 jmcneill 336: acpi: Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211]
1.980 xtraeme 337: kernel: Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details.
1.992 xtraeme 338: [jmcneill,joerg 20071211]
1.1021 degroote 339: ifconfig(8): Add 'list scan' to ifconfig, which list access point in
1.1022 ! spz 340: the neighbourhood. [adegroot 20071216]
1.961 apb 341: MAKEDEV(8): Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device
342: nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to
343: mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215]
1.1014 tsutsui 344: nfe(4): Handle a quirk of newer MCP6x chips on reading MAC address.
345: [tsutsui 20071217]
1.1004 xtraeme 346: rs6000: New port of NetBSD to the MCA based IBM RS/6000 7006-41T.
1.1003 garbled 347: [garbled 20071217]
1.988 xtraeme 348: openssh: Import 4.7. [christos 20071217]
1.991 xtraeme 349: i386, amd64: Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems.
1.965 joerg 350: [joerg 20071218]
1.988 xtraeme 351: sparc64: Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to
1.986 macallan 352: genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build
1.988 xtraeme 353: XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219]
1.966 dogcow 354: newsyslog: newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles.
355: [dogcow 20071221]
1.967 jmcneill 356: thinkpad(4): Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and
1.988 xtraeme 357: brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221]
1.980 xtraeme 358: kernel: Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and
1.992 xtraeme 359: dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226]
1.998 reinoud 360: msdosfs: Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster).
1.972 jdc 361: [reinoud 20071228]
1.970 xtraeme 362: itesio(4): Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229]
1.973 jmcneill 363: usermode: Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace.
364: [jmcneill 20071229]
1.989 xtraeme 365: hp700: Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230]
1.988 xtraeme 366: compat_hpux: Removed. [ad 20071231]
367: systrace(1): Removed. [ad 20071231]
368: tprof: Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler,
1.976 yamt 369: inspired from linux oprofile. it's still very experimental.
1.982 xtraeme 370: [yamt 20080102]
1.978 xtraeme 371: bioctl(8): Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing
1.977 xtraeme 372: hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop
373: consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102]
1.978 xtraeme 374: arcmsr(4): Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through
375: disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks
1.977 xtraeme 376: in volumes as well as showing information about physical
377: disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through
378: or unused). [xtraeme 20080102]
1.988 xtraeme 379: ofppc: Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102]
1.981 jdc 380: gem(4): Add support for Sun SX fibre cards. [jdc 20080105]
1.985 joerg 381: kernel: All platforms have been converted to use generic TODR.
1.993 joerg 382: [gdamore,joerg 20080108]
1.990 gdt 383: ulpt(4): Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108]
1.983 xtraeme 384: gcscpcib(4): Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion
385: Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and
386: GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109]
1.996 xtraeme 387: pc532: Port deleted. [simonb 20080109]
1.1004 xtraeme 388: ofppc: Fix ofwboot to work on an IBM CHRP-based RS/6000.
1.1003 garbled 389: [garbled 20080109]
1.989 xtraeme 390: i386: Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform
1.991 xtraeme 391: using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not
392: turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but
393: simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and
394: Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems.
395: [tls 20080110]
1.994 skrll 396: hppa: Added gdb support. [skrll 20080110]
1.1014 tsutsui 397: auvia(4): Make this work on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20080114]
1.1000 rmind 398: kernel: Implementation of processor-sets and affinity. [rmind 20080115]
399: libpthread: POSIX real-time extensions. [rmind 20080115]
400: schedctl(8): A new program to control scheduling of processes and
401: threads. [rmind 20080115]
1.1017 jmmv 402: kernel: Added a new framework for kernel modules, enabled through the
403: MODULAR kernel option and used through the modctl(2) system
404: call. [ad 20080116]
405: modules: Added new versions of modload(8), modstat(8) and modunload(8)
406: that use modctl(2). Not built by default. [ad 20080116]
1.997 jmcneill 407: bktr(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116]
1.1004 xtraeme 408: ofppc: Add support for the IBM 7044-270. [garbled 20080117]
1.1014 tsutsui 409: fdisk(8): Fix possible division by zero errors. [tsutsui 20080120]
1.999 joerg 410: kernel: All platforms have been converted to use timecounter.
411: [joerg 20080120]
1.1002 xtraeme 412: usb: Add uhmodem(4) driver for Huawei E220 wireless modem.
1.1001 ichiro 413: [ichiro 20080121]
1.1005 jmcneill 414: compat_linux32: Add ossaudio support. [jmcneill 20080121]
1.1006 bouyer 415: xen: Added support for the i386 PAE extention to Xen3 domU
416: [bouyer 20080123]
1.1007 jmcneill 417: uhub(4): The device attachment function has been optimized to
418: improve system startup time. [jmcneill 20080124]
1.1011 joerg 419: kernel: The interface for IP checksumming was changed to reduce
1.1008 joerg 420: duplication and more general use. [joerg 20080125]
1.1009 christos 421: hostapd/wpa_supplicant: Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126]
1.1014 tsutsui 422: nfe(4): Wakeup some newer chips from powerdown mode.
423: From FreeBSD/Linux driver via OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20080126]
424: sgimips: Enable bootinfo passed from bootloader so that now kernel
425: symbol table and ksyms(4) are usable. [tsutsui 20080126]
426: hpcmips: Fix silent hangup problem on TX3922 machines.
427: From Risto Sainio. [tsutsui 20080126]
1.1010 christos 428: openpam: upgrade to 20071221 [christos 20080126]
1.1012 jmcneill 429: azalia(4): Analog Devices AD1984 codec support has been improved
430: to support headphones and 4 channel playback, and now
431: exposes an outputs.master mixer control that mirrors the
432: inputs.dac mixer control to make libossaudio happy.
433: [jmcneill 20080130]
1.1014 tsutsui 434: arc: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
435: cobalt: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
1.1016 mrg 436: GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20080202. [mrg 20080202]
1.1013 jmmv 437: atf: Import 0.4. [jmmv 20080204]
1.1015 macallan 438: sgimips: Add hardware acceleration for crmfb [macallan 20080205]
1.1018 jmmv 439: modules: Added the MKMODULAR option to the build system to easily
440: enable the build of the new kernel modules framework.
441: [jmmv 20080209]
1.1019 ober 442: iwn(4): Added a driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless Lan 4965AGN
443: Mini-PCI Adapter, ported from OpenBSD. [ober 2008-02-09]
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