- builtin(1) rewrite with keybinds(1) appeared
- newaliases(1) manpage update moved to manpages
- vt(4) learned about increasing console scrollback size
- most ethernet switch manuals appeared or were improved
- dumpon(8) learned about settings for crash dumps
The Windows dev kit 2023 has been working since 13.2 or 13.3. Add it to
the list of working arm platforms in the hardware release note template
as well as currently supported releases.
Reported by: fuz
+ Move Ports Security Team after Security Team
+ Primary Release Engineering is now Release Engineering
+ Move Release Engineering into Teams before Security team
Discussed with: cperciva
List three known traps upgrading to 15.0R in the release errata.
Noting: this is 34 days late, but first time since 12.0R
Discussed with: adrian, imp, jhb, jrtc27, ngie
Reviewed by: adrian
I just discovered this driver while auditing apropos results. Turns out,
this driver has existed since FreeBSD 11.0. It was not built by default
initially, but the module is present on my 15.0-RELEASE box.
Add a macro defining the latest current RELEASE that people should use
for new deployments. This will improve consistency and save time bumping
version numbers in handbook examples, which has been suprisingly error
prone.
Jan Brankamp on the Production Users Call suggested we also define a
rel-previous macro. I do not need that yet, but note it here to inspire
future discussion.
Approved by: dch (re)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54293
Judging from the mailing list discussion, this section needs organized
better. While here, sneak in a bit of wordsmithing. We still have a lot
of work to do improving the instructions for upgrading systems installed
with packages, but we have to keep moving.
Discussed with: cperciva (it's still ok to organize better)
Discussed with: ivy (s/distribution/& sets/)
Discussed with: jrm (upgrading from source wordsmithing)
Reviewed by: dch (previous, fixed a typo since)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54181
I tried running plasma wayland on 15.0, it works great! CPU usage
is a tad high, but I'm impressed! Freshen the branding and language
in this chapter to highlight this. Remove a stale note about adjusting
message sizes to what is now the default. Tell the reader how to search
the kde-applications category. Add instructions to launch with wayland.
Reviewed by: carlavilla (previous), makc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54207
+ remove expat, this is a private lib and doesn't have a manual
+ move the thing that is changing to the beginingish of the sentences
+ s/foo/the foo frobber/ to match usual freebsd style
+ fix some markup and punctuation typos
These need to happen before the entries can be alphabetized.
Discussed with: jhb, olce (loosely)
Add the hgame game controller driver, and replace the handwritten sbp
firewire storage driver entry with a maintainable macro which will
notify us instead of creating a dead link if the driver is removed.
This brings in fixes to aacraid, ciss, and ice, adds nvd,
and removes a long lost section about misc. USB hardware.
PR: 290778
Reported by: bigsneaky@duck.com
There are other drivers that people have made included by default in
GENERIC kernels. These drivers need to be announced here because that
comes with a configuration change. If you know any, please come forth.
Add the cherished NVMe storage and SD host controller interface
to the Hardware Release Note.
Those uninitiated in the hardware release note may wonder the
utility of listing a host controller interface in this document.
My mantra in the FreeBSD documentation project is:
"Your use case is not the center of the usecasiverse".
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of hearing the testimony of a
contractor who designed a sensor network for speedboats using FreeBSD.
These MIPS drivers were removed in FreeBSD 14.0. Remove them from the
HW Relnotes template and the notes for versions they did not ship with.
Ref: src: 8f7835acc6d6 (Remove SOC FPGA drivers)
Reported by: jhb
These drivers were removed for FreeBSD 13. They did not appear in any
releases they did not ship with but somehow got back into the template.
Ref: src:43b16da804f6c97209 (Remove adv(4) and adw(4))
This driver was removed in src:23e124c78bcb for FreeBSD 13.0. It appears
in no hardware release notes it did not ship with, but somehow got back
into the template.
Increase utility of the hardware release note by using the official
trade name of the architecture for it's subsection heading, followed
by the hyperlinked name of the freebsd project for that architecture.
In this hardware release note, I am also claiming a minimum RAM req.
This rewrite removes platforms which are no longer shipping in 15.0,
reorganizes the platforms subsections alpheabetically by project,
rewrites the introductory paragraps for each section to accomidate
for this (and past, really) reflow(s), and refreshes the powerpc
subsection with information from ppc@ and the platforms page.
I wish people using niche architectures to clean up their platforms
pages over the next two months. There is good information in there
drowning in a sea of stale info. This looks bad upon the project and
is subject to getting lost in a website rewrite.
Discussed with: antranigv, cperciva, dch, emaste, michaeldexter
Remove the Camera section from the Hardware Release Notes template as
well as the last five years of Hardware notes where it contained only
ficticious entries.
+ The bktr driver was removed in src:daba5ace03e83a930 for FreeBSD 13.0.
+ The connectix quickcam was left over from the original hardware notes.
Hopefully we may be able to re-add the Cameras section in the future.
The u2f USB security key driver was added in src:4a04e0a6c703. Add it to
the Hardware Release Notes template in the Misc section, since the USB
section has a note saying Human Interface Devices are in Misc.
Possible todo: Refactor USB Devices and Misc to create a HID section?
The mtw(4) driver was added in src:c14b016242613 for FreeBSD 15.0
Add it to the Release Hardware Notes in the wireless section.
Reviewed by: carlavilla, mhorne (mentors)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48906
Since this is the only usb sound driver, I think it makes more sense
to put it with the other sound drivers. Especially since nobody has
ever noticied that the link is incorrectly named and it has actually
always been broken.
Reviewed by: christos, mhorne
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51262
Alexander Ziaee