I'm sorry, folks, but I'm going to have to punt on this week's summary. I've got most of the summary for you, but no discussions. I'll spare you further complaints about my packet loss woes; suffice it to say that they're keeping my evenings very interesting. Without further ado: FreeBSD cvs-src summary for 04/10/04 to 11/10/04 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is a regular weekly summary of FreeBSD's cutting-edge development. It is intended to help the FreeBSD community keep up with the fast-paced work going on in FreeBSD-CURRENT by distilling the deluge of data from the CVS mailing list into a (hopefully) easy-to-read newsletter. This newsletter is marked up in reStructuredText_, so any odd punctuation that you see is likely intended for the reST parser. .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html You can get old summaries, and an HTML version of this one, at http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/. Please send any comments to Mark Johnston (mark at xl0.org). If you would like to get the summary without subscribing to current_at_, please send mail to freebsd-cvs-summary-subscribe_at_lists.enderunix.org. Thanks to Omer Faruk Sen and EnderUNIX for hosting this list. For Lukasz Dudek and Szymon Roczniak's Polish translations of these summaries, which may lag the English ones slightly, please see http://mocart.pinco.pl/FreeBSD/. .. contents:: ====== Errata ====== `Last week`_, I summarized a discussion about changing rm's behavior. A number of the messages were complaints about the initial commit message. I failed to point out that Dag-Erling went back later and added a descriptive commit message, as well as later making the new behavior effective only when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is not set. .. _`Last week`: http://excel.xl0.org/FreeBSD/04-10-04.html#changing-the-behavior-of-rm ============ New features ============ pbio driver for Intel 8255 PPI devices added -------------------------------------------- Diomidis Spinellis (dds) committed a driver to 4.x that supports Intel 8255A-based PPIs (parallel peripheral interfaces) and other hardware that emulates them. The 8255 is a chip that handles up to 24 general-purpose digital I/O lines in 3 8-bit ports. Later on, M. Warner Losh (imp) ported and committed the driver to -CURRENT. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410071145.i97BjLm6013567 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410071621.i97GL3lu029620 auxio driver for sparc64 LEDs added ----------------------------------- Pyun YongHyeon (yongari) committed a port of NetBSD's auxio driver, which provides auxiliary I/O on various UltraSPARC systems. Currently, the driver controls the system's front panel LED. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410090731.i997V4Hp074292 =============== Notable changes =============== FreeBSD keyword eliminated from /etc/rc.d files ----------------------------------------------- Mike Makonnen (mtm) removed the FreeBSD keyword from files in /etc/rc.d. The keyword was used to control boot order, but is no longer needed. The effect of this change is that when you run mergemaster, you will be prompted regarding changes in all of the affected files. If you have not changed the files in /etc/rc.d, you should be able to remove them all, then run mergemaster -i to install the new versions. Be careful when doing this that you finish the process completely before attempting to reboot. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410071355.i97DtSJq024575 ================= Committer changes ================= Sam Leffler (sam) introduced Stephan Uphoff (ups) as a new src committer. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410061610.i96GAlBC044052 Robert Watson (rwatson) introduced George Neville-Neil (gnn) as a new src committer. George has been working on network stack locking and cleanup and is one of the authors of the recent book "Design and Implementation of FreeBSD". http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410111424.i9BEOure066236 =============== Other bug fixes =============== Max Laier (mlaier) fixed a bug in pflogd that would cause it to use all available CPU if the pf module was unloaded. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410050826.i958QYn6026610 Peter Edwards (peadar) fixed a panic on boot on systems with 2.88MB floppy drives. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410102340.i9ANe06w011084 Scott Long committed fixes to growfs, which enlarges filesystems, that allow it to be used to grow filesystems significantly - the new growfs has been used to grow an 8 GB filesystem to 1.9 TB. Previously, it was useful only for enlarging by a trivial amount. This fix was obtained from Sandvine, Inc. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410090253.i992rl3M051822 Shinsuke Suzuki (suz) committed a fix to the 4.x STABLE branch to a bug that could cause a kernel crash when the net.inet.ip.rtexpire sysctl was set to 0. This sysctl controls the default expiry time on routes that are learned dynamically. The fix was obtained from KAME. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410060235.i962ZHwq099146 Nate Lawson (njl) fixed a problem with UFS1 that resulted in problems with files over 1 TB. The fix was submitted by Bruce Evans (bde). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200410092016.i99KG6ma017422Received on Fri Oct 15 2004 - 01:39:44 UTC
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