49.html fixes
Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]>
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somebody can paraphrase
1) guenther@ amd64 cleanup 1,2,3 changes a bit more?
2) miod@ kernel console cleanup changes?
3) jakemsr@ usb cleanup changes?
Thanks,
amit
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--- 49.html 25 Apr 2011 17:44:07 -0000 1.29
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@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@
<li>Handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
<li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found on recent Intel cores.
<li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.
+ <li>Processes are now switched to TSS per cpu on the
+ <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
+ resulting in removal of the old limit of ~4000 processes.
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>:
<ul>
@@ -148,7 +151,9 @@
<ul>
<li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
- <li>Added support for socket splicing.
+ <li>Added support for socket splicing, via socket option SO_SPLICE
+ to splice together two TCP sockets. This allows us to write relay
+ daemons with zero data copy.
<li>Added AES-GCM support for IPsec.
<li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
<li>Added wpakey option to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> replacing wpa-psk(8).
@@ -168,7 +173,7 @@
<ul>
<li>Several potential security problems have been identified and fixed.
<li>ARC4 based PRNG code was audited and revamped.
- <li>New explicit_bzero kernel function was introduced to prevent a compiler
+ <li>New explicit_bzero kernel function was introduced to prevent the compiler
from optimizing
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero&sektion=3">bzero</a>
calls away.
@@ -187,7 +192,7 @@
<li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vscsi&sektion=4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
userland handling of scsi device commands.
<li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iscsid&sektion=8">iscsid(8)</a>, an iSCSI initiator.
- <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
+ <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to execute one command at a time.
<li>Discover and honour read-only status of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a> devices.
<li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">st(4)</a> handling of I/O residual information.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a> devices that can only execute one command at a time (e.g. USB) will now be allowed to spin up if necessary.
@@ -207,9 +212,9 @@
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now correctly handles 'net' primitives when processing <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a> traffic.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now respects failure to read the MBR.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> will no longer infinitely loop when encountering an improperly constructed EBR.
- <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer uses information from a failed partition addition on the next addition of the same partition.
+ <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer reuses information from a failed partition addition on subsequent addition of the same partition.
<li>Many unused and obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab&sektion=5">disktab(5)</a> entries removed.
- <li>Fixed X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.
+ <li>Enabled X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.
<li>Implement attribute syntax from RFC4517 and support bsdauth in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldapd&sektion=8">ldapd(8)</a>.
<li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=video&sektion=1">video(1)</a> utility which can record or display images from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=video&sektion=4">video(4)</a>.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a> mod_headers now handles apache2 style RequestHeader directives.
@@ -234,7 +239,7 @@
daemon
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&sektion=8">iked(8)</a>.
<li>Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system.
- CAST-128 implementation was also removed from the libc.
+ CAST-128 implementation was also removed from libc.
</ul>
<p>
@@ -243,7 +248,7 @@
<li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
<li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
<li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
- had been broken a very long time and noone noticed).
+ had been broken a very long time and no one noticed).
<li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
<li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the