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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/3.0R/notes.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/3.0R/notes.sgml index c01efc177c..b6eb79189d 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/3.0R/notes.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/3.0R/notes.sgml @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ specifically marked as [MERGED] features. 1.1. KERNEL CHANGES ------------------- -o The 2.2.x SCSI subsystem has been almost entirely replaced with +o The 2.2.x SCSI subsystem has been almost entirely replaced with a new "CAM" (Common Access Method) SCSI system which offers improved performance, better error recovery and support for more SCSI controllers. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ o ATAPI/IDE tape drive support (BETA). o Support for using VESA video modes. It is now possible to select and use the modes provided by the BIOS on modern videocards. This enables fx. 132x60 sized consoles and highres graphics in a generic manner on - hardware that supports it. There is also support for running the + hardware that supports it. There is also support for running the console in rastermode, which allows XFree86 to run a simple 16color server in 800x600 on otherwise unsupported video hardware. @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ o The ed0 (wd8xxxx, 3c503, NE2000, HP Lan+) Ethernet device's default IRQ o The code responsible for maintaining time of day has been rewritten. New features are: true support for nanoseconds in both kernel and userland, continuous rather than stepwise adjustment - by NTPD and support for synchronizing to high precision external time + by NTPD and support for synchronizing to high precision external time signals. o Support for the PPS API described in draft-mogul-pps-api-02.txt for @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ o The UPAGES are gone from the per-process address space which allows o Newly forked child processes return directly to user mode rather than return up through the fork() syscall tree. This eliminates the kernel - stack copy at fork time and simplifies certain other internal operations. + stack copy at fork time and simplifies certain other internal operations. It is also needed to support the removal of the UPAGES. (The idea for this originally came from NetBSD, but we did it for different reasons.) @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ o An interrupt driven configuration hook mechanism has been implemented. o The timeout(9) system in the kernel has been overhauled. This gives O(1) insertion and removal of callouts and an O(hash chain length) amount of work to be performed in softclock. The original paper is at: - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/research/timer/ + http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/research/timer/ o Changes in driver buffer queuing to deal with ordered transactions. This is intended for sequencing data and metadata writes in the filesystem code @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ commands. moused(8) has been modified to support various mice with a ``wheel''. It also automatically recognizes mice which support the PnP COM device -standard, so that the user is no longer required to supply a mouse +standard, so that the user is no longer required to supply a mouse protocol type on the command line. [MERGED: Also in 2.2.6 and later releases on 2.2-STABLE branch] @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem: Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the AMD 53c974 as well). - NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. + NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! -Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to +Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to become an official mirror site. If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your |