Solaris Express 10/05 (Nevada b23) がリリースされました。
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/
Whats new はこちらで。
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dp/20051018
e1000g driver の announce もありますね。
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Notable New Features in Solaris "Nevada", Build 23 (10/2005)
Desktop Technologies
* StarOffice 7 and StarSuite 7 are updated to Product Update 5
* Mozilla is patched up through MFSA 2005-55
For Developers
* GNU autoconf, Fortran 77 and gdb are now bundled with the system as /usr/
sfw/bin/autoconf, /usr/sfw/bin/g77 and /usr/sfw/bin/gdb.
* Medialib is now v2.3, and now includes 64-bit SSE2 libraries for AMD64, as
well as new functions for transparency, alpha blending, signal functions
for normalized LMS filtering, vector/matrix averaging functions, and
normalized cross correlation functions for images. 342 new functions were
added in all. On SPARC, a multithreaded version of the library is
now available as well (see libmlib_mt(3lib)).
System Enhancements
* fsck_ufs has been enhanced to more accurately report error messages and
suggest the next course of action, and a '-o v' for verbose output has been
added. fsck will now also automatically search for superblock backups in
the event that it needs them; you may now see:
LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS?
* A new pam_allow PAM module has been added. pam_allow returns PAM_SUCCESS
for all calls. It's the opposite of pam_deny(5). This can be useful for
allowing an automatic login for a kiosk, or for allowing anonymous sftp.
[6305906]
* The vacation(1) filtering facility can now also accept negated entries.
This means that you can now have .vacation.filter files such as:
!host.subdomain.sun.com
sun.com
!wife@mydomain.com
mydomain.com
onefriend@hisisp.com
anotherfriend@herisp.com
* SVM's default interlace and resync buffer sizes are increased, which should
improve resync performance
* volfs(5d) (i.e. vold) can now support "no media" nodes-- in other words, it
will display device nodes for empty media, allowing utilities like cdrw(1)
to see them:
Hardware Support
* SMBIOS support has been added to Solaris:
+ A new smbios(1m) command which prints the smbios configuration was
added
+ prtdiag is now available on x86 and x64 systems:
# prtdiag
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems Sun Fire B100x
BIOS Configuration: Phoenix 0.24 08/05/2003
==== Processor Sockets ====================================
Version Location Tag
-------------------------------- --------------------------
AMD Athlon(tm) pr Socket A
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* A number of ACPI improvements were made, and code was updated to Intel's
20050708 code drop. [6277768] [6283818] [6284164] [6286008] [6294226] [
6300079]
* The onboard audio on Dell Optiplex GX280's should now work.
* The lsimega driver picks up support for the PERC 4e/Si, PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e
/DC and MegaRAID 320-2e adapters.
* Compatibility with Adaptec SATA RAID adapters is improved [6289318]
* The e1000g (Intel Gigabit) driver has been overhauled:
+ It was migrated to the Nemo (GLDv3) driver framework. This means users
of these cards pick up the advanced features offered by the Nemo
framework: link aggregation, vlans, etc.
+ e1000g is now supported on SPARC (hooray!!) [6242612]
+ The driver now supports link up/down notifications, making its
integration with IP Multipathing more complete. [6207682]
+ The driver can now employ the card's onboard H/W checksum offload
facility if it is available, resulting in improved performance (in some
tests as much as 30% better throughput).
* The system now detects CPUs affected by AMD Opteron Errata 131. If affected
by this, you will see a message instructing you to update your BIOS.
OpenSolaris Related Activity
* We've made big strides in our effort to clean up the source code to be
cleanly compilable using gcc. In this release we've got 125 more bugs worth
of gcc cleanup taken care of. That means we're getting close. From looking
in the bug database, it looks like we've blown past the halfway mark in
getting this massive task completed.
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