diff --git a/handbook/ctm.sgml b/handbook/ctm.sgml index 27edac44a4..032eb6e52f 100644 --- a/handbook/ctm.sgml +++ b/handbook/ctm.sgml @@ -1,199 +1,199 @@ CTM

Contributed by &a.phk;. Updated 16-Mar-1995. Why should I use

. What do I need to use

You will need two things: The ``/usr/src/usr.sbin/ if you have a copy of the source online. If you are running a pre-2.0 version of FreeBSD, you can fetch the current The ``deltas'' you feed FTP the relevant directory and fetch the /etc/aliases if you want to have the process run in a fully automated fashion. Check the Starting off with

Before you can start using Using

To apply the deltas, simply say cd /where/ever/you/want/the/stuff ctm -v -v /where/you/store/your/deltas/src-cur.* Future plans for

Tons of them: Make local modifications to the tree possible. One way to do it could be this:

When foo/bar.c'', it would first check for the existence of foo/bar.c#CTM If this file exists, the delta is applied to it instead. This way the foo/bar.c file can be edited to suit local needs. Make a ``restore file(s)'' option to ctm -r src/sys/i386/wd.c /here/are/my/deltas/src-cur.* would restore Clean up the options to The bad news is that I am very busy, so any help in doing this will be most welcome. And don't forget to tell me what you want also... Miscellaneous stuff

All the ``DES infected'' (e.g. export controlled) source is not included. You will get the ``international'' version only. If sufficient interest appears, we will set up a ``Thanks!

diff --git a/handbook/relnotes.sgml b/handbook/relnotes.sgml index 32be98a896..1a454f4425 100644 --- a/handbook/relnotes.sgml +++ b/handbook/relnotes.sgml @@ -1,593 +1,593 @@ - + About the current release

FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or compatible) based PC's. It is based primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation. Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 one year ago, the performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The largest change is a revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support, transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and Fast Ethernet (100Mbit) adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and many hundreds of bug fixes. We've also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this (constantly evolving) process is especially welcome! In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported software collection with some 350 commonly sought-after programs. The list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed as ``deltas'' to their original sources. This makes it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the directory of the program you wish to install, type make and let the system do the rest. The full original distribution for each port you build is retrieved dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need only enough disk space to build the ports you want. (Almost) every port is also provided as a pre-compiled "package" which can be installed with a simple command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to compile their own ports from source. A number of additional documents which you may find very helpful in the process of installing and using FreeBSD may now also be found in the /usr/share/doc directory. You may view the manuals with any HTML capable browser with the following URLs: The FreeBSD handbook The FreeBSD FAQ You can also visit the master (and most frequently updated) copies at . The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.) exportable European distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also exists and is described in the . If password security for FreeBSD is all you need, and you have no requirement for copying encrypted passwords from different hosts (Suns, DEC machines, etc) into FreeBSD password entries, then FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that our default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any messy export issues to deal with. If you're outside (or even inside) the U.S., give it a try! Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 nearly two years ago, FreeBSD has changed dramatically. Since release 2.0, FreeBSD has been based on the Berkeley BSD 4.4-lite code rather than the Net2 code used for previous versions. In addition to clearing the legal issues that surrounded the Net2 code, the port to 4.4 has also brought in numerous new features, filesystems and enhanced driver support. Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in November of 1994, the performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The largest change is a revamped Virtual Memory (VM) system with a merged virtual memory and file buffer cache. This increases performance while reducing FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a system with 4 megabytes of RAM a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support, transaction TCP support, dial on demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem, early support for ISDN, support for FDDI and 100Mbit Fast Ethernet adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 and hundreds of bug fixes. We've also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this constantly evolving process is especially welcome! In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported software collection with some 270 commonly sought-after programs. The list of ports ranges from World Wide Web (http) servers, to games, languages, editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection requires only 10MB of storage because each port contains only the changes required for the source code to compile on FreeBSD and the information necessary to automatically retrieve the original sources. The original distribution for each port you build is automatically retrieved off of CD-ROM or a via anonymous ftp, so you need only enough disk space to build the ports you want. Each port is also provided as a pre-compiled package which can be installed with the pkg_add(1) command for those who do not wish to compile their own ports from source. See for a more complete description. The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its being exported outside the United States. An add-on package, for use only in the United States, contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely exportable European distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also exists and is described in the . If password security for FreeBSD is all you need, and you have no requirement for copying encrypted passwords from other hosts using DES into FreeBSD password entries, then FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require. We feel that our default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any messy export issues to deal with. FreeBSD 2.0.5 represents the culmination of 2 years of work and many thousands of man hours put in by an international development team. We hope you enjoy it! New feature highlights

The following features were added or substantially improved between the release of 2.0 and this 2.0.5 release. In order to facilitate better communication, the person, or persons, responsible for each enhancement is noted. Any questions regarding the new functionality should be directed to them first. Kernel

Merged VM-File Buffer Cache A merged VM/buffer cache design greatly enhances overall system performance and makes it possible to do a number of more optimal memory allocation strategies that were not possible before. Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) and John Dyson (dyson@implode.root.com) Network PCB hash optimization For systems with a great number of active TCP connections (WEB and ftp servers, for example), this greatly speeds up the lookup time required to match an incoming packet up to its associated connection. Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) Name cache optimization The name-cache would cache all files of the same name to the same bucket, which would put for instance all ".." entries in the same bucket. We added the parent directory version to frustrate the hash, and improved the management of the cache in various other ways while we were at it. Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org) David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) Less restrictive swap-spaces The need to compile the names of the swap devices into the kernel has been removed. Now swapon(8) will accept any block devices, up to the maximum number of swap devices configured in the kernel. Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org) David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) Hard Wired SCSI Devices Prior to 2.0.5, FreeBSD performed dynamic assignment of unit numbers to SCSI devices as they were probed, allowing a SCSI device failure to possibly change unit number assignment. This could cause filesystems other disks in the system to be incorrectly mounted, or not mounted at all. Hard wiring allows static allocation of unit numbers (and hence device names) to scsi devices based on SCSI ID and bus. SCSI configuration occurs in the kernel config file. Samples of the configuration syntax can be found in the scsi(4) man page or the LINT kernel config file. Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Sources involved: sys/scsi/* usr.sbin/config/* Slice Support FreeBSD now supports a slice abstraction which enhances FreeBSD's ability to share disks with other operating systems. This support will allow FreeBSD to inhabit DOS extended partitions. Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org) Sources involved: sys/disklabel.h sys/diskslice.h sys/dkbad.h kern/subr_diskslice.c kern/subr_dkbad.c i386/isa/diskslice_machdep.c i386/isa/wd.c scsi/sd.c dev/vn/vn.c Support for Ontrack Disk Manager Version 6.0 Support has been added for disks which use Ontrack Disk Manager. The fdisk program does not know about it however, so make all changes using the install program on the boot.flp or the Ontrack Disk Manager tool under MS-DOS. Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org) Bad144 is back and working Bad144 works again, though the semantics are slightly different than before in that the bad-spots are kept relative to the slice rather than absolute on the disk. Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org) Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org) New device support SCSI and CDROM devices

Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) CD-ROM driver The Matsushita/Panasonic CR-562 and CR-563 drives are now supported when connected to a Sound Blaster or 100% compatible host adapter. Up to four host adapters are supported for a total of 16 CD-ROM drives. The audio functions are supported with the Karoke variable speed playback. Owner: Frank Durda IV (bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org) Sources involved: isa/matcd Adaptec 2742/2842/2940 SCSI driver The original 274x/284x driver has evolved considerably since the 2.0 release of FreeBSD. We now offer full support for the 2940 series as well as the Wide models of these cards. The arbitration bug that caused problems with fast devices has been corrected and experimental tagged queuing support has been added (kernel option AHC_TAGENABLE). John Aycock has also released the sequencer code under a Berkeley style copyright making the driver entirely clean of the GPL. Owner: Justin Gibbs (gibbs@FreeBSD.org) Sources involved: isa/aic7770.c pci/aic7870.c i386/scsi/* sys/dev/aic7xxx/* NCR5380/NCR53400 SCSI (ProAudio Spectrum) driver Owner: core Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko (vak@cronyx.ru) Sources involved: isa/ncr5380.c Sony CDROM driver Owner: core Submitted by: Mikael Hybsch (micke@dynas.se) Sources involved: isa/scd.c Serial devices

SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board Driver Owner: Andrey Chernov (ache@FreeBSD.org) Sources involved: isa/rc.c isa/rcreg.h Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Driver Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org) Submitted by: Andrew Werple (andrew@werple.apana.org.au) and Heikki Suonsivu (hsu@cs.hut.fi) Obtained from: NetBSD Sources involved: isa/cy.c Cronyx/Sigma sync/async serial driver Owner: core Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko Sources involved: isa/cronyx.c Networking

Diskless booting Diskless booting in 2.0.5 is much improved over previous releases. The boot program is in src/sys/i386/boot/netboot, and can be run from an MS-DOS system or burned into an EPROM. WD, SMC, 3COM and Novell ethernet cards are currently supported. Local swapping is also supported. DEC DC21140 Fast Ethernet driver This driver supports any of the numerous NICs using the DC21140 chipset including the 100Mb DEC DE-500-XA and SMC 9332. Owner: core Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com) Sources involved: pci/if_de.c pci/dc21040.h DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) driver Owner: core Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com) Sources involved: pci/if_pdq.c pci/pdq.c pci/pdq_os.h pci/pdqreg.h 3Com 3c505 (Etherlink/+) NIC driver Owner: core Submitted by: Dean Huxley (dean@fsa.ca) Obtained from: NetBSD Sources involved: isa/if_eg.c Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs driver Owner: core Submitted by: M.S. (seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp) Sources involved: isa/if_fe.c Intel EtherExpress driver Owner: Rodney W. Grimes (rgrimes@FreeBSD.org) Sources involved: isa/if_ix.c isa/if_ixreg.h 3Com 3c589 driver Owner: core Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp), Seiji Murata (seiji@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp) and Noriyuki Takahashi (hor@aecl.ntt.jp) Sources involved: isa/if_zp.c IBM Credit Card Adapter driver Owner: core Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp), Sources involved: isa/pcic.c isa/pcic.h EDSS1 and 1TR6 ISDN interface driver Owner: core Submitted by: Dietmar Friede (dfriede@drnhh.neuhaus.de) and Juergen Krause (jkr@saarlink.de) Sources involved: gnu/isdn/* Miscellaneous drivers

Joystick driver Owner: Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@FreeBSD.org) Sources involved: isa/joy.c National Instruments ``LabPC'' driver Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Sources involved: isa/labpc.c WD7000 driver Owner: Olof Johansson (offe@ludd.luth.se) Pcvt Console driver Owner: Jörg Wunsch (joerg@FreeBSD.org) Submitted by: Hellmuth Michaelis (hm@altona.hamburg.com) Sources involved: isa/pcvt/* BSD-audio emulator for VAT driver Owner: Amancio Hasty (ahasty@FreeBSD.org) and Paul Traina (pst@FreeBSD.org) Sources involved: isa/sound/vat_audio.c isa/sound/vat_audioio.h National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT GPIB driver Owner: core Submitted by: Fred Cawthorne (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu) Sources involved: isa/gpib.c isa/gpib.h isa/gpibreg.h Genius GS-4500 hand scanner driver Owner: core Submitted by: Gunther Schadow (gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Sources involved: isa/gsc.c isa/gscreg.h CORTEX-I Frame Grabber Owner: core Submitted by: Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. ( Sources involved: isa/ctx.c isa/ctxreg.h Video Spigot video capture card Owner: Jim Lowe Experimental features

UNIONFS and LFS The unionfs and LFS file systems are known to be severely broken in FreeBSD 2.0.5. This is in part due to old bugs that we haven't had time to resolve yet and the need to update these file systems to deal with the new VM system. We hope to address these issues in a later release of FreeBSD. iBCS2 Support FreeBSD now supports running iBCS2 compatible binaries. Currently SCO UNIX 3.2.2 and 3.2.4, and ISC 2.2 COFF are supported. The iBCS2 emulator is in its early stages and has not been extensively tested, but it is functional. Most of SCO's 3.2.2 binaries work, as does an old INFORMIX-2.10 for SCO. Further testing is necessary to complete this project. There is also work under way for ELF and XOUT loaders, and most of the svr4 syscall wrappers are written. - Owner: Soren Schmidt (sos) and Sean Eric Fagan (sef) + Owner: Søren Schmidt (sos) and Sean Eric Fagan (sef) Sources involved: sys/i386/ibcs2/* and misc kernel changes. ]]>