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     24 Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
     25 	evbppc: Add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202]
     26 	mac68k: Add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the
     27 		VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206]
     28 	ixp425: Add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210]
     29 	nfs: Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227]
     30 	mount_psshfs(8): Add puffs sshfs. [pooka 20061229]
     31 	zaurus: Add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105]
     32 	i386: Add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105]
     33 	ntp: Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface
     34 		address changes is now supported - no more ntpd
     35 		restarts when interface addresses are re-configured
     36 		(WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106]
     37 	kernel: Global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to
     38 		the secmodel. [elad 20070110]
     39 	GCC: Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111]
     40 	acpitools: Added from FreeBSD via fvdl. [christos 20070114]
     41 	scsictl(8): Added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the
     42 		optical drive should use for reading data,
     43 		contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122]
     44 	i386, amd64: Add cmos(4), driver for x86 CMOS RAM. [dyoung 20070206]
     45 	newlock2: Merge the newlock2 branch. Introduces a number of new
     46 		kernel synchronization primitives, improves scalability
     47 		on MP systems, and replaces the existing SA threads model
     48 		with a 1:1 threading model. [ad 20070209]
     49 	news68k: Implement generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070210]
     50 	refuse: Added FUSE (file system in userspace) compatibility
     51 		functionality, layered on top of libpuffs. [agc 20070211]
     52 	i386: Added an opencrypto provider for VIA ACE (AES encryption
     53 		instructions), ported from OpenBSD. [daniel 20070217]
     54 	sdiff(1): Replaced by OpenBSD sdiff(1) (public domain). [rmind 20070219]
     55 	btuart(4): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) driver.
     56 		[kiyohara 20070221]
     57 	btuartd(8): Add support for Bluetooth HCI UART (H4) daemon.
     58 		[kiyohara 20070221]
     59 	mutex(9), rwlock(9): Support priority inheritance. [yamt 20070226]
     60 	eeprom(8): Add the missing kernel bits on arm and powerpc that kept
     61 		eeprom from actually changing firmware settings.
     62 		[macallan 20070228]
     63 	MAKEDEV(8), MAKEDEV.local(8): Let MAKEDEV.local use functions
     64 		defined in MAKEDEV. [apb 20070303]
     65 	x68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
     66 	luna68k: Add generic softintr(9) support. [tsutsui 20070304]
     67 	file(1): Update to 4.20.  [pooka 20070304]
     68 	hfs: Add read-only Apple HFS+ file system support. [dillo 20070305]
     69 	ipv6: Add ipv6 fast forward. [liamjfoy 20070307]
     70 	openssh: Import 4.6. [christos 20070310]
     71 	aiboost(4): ASUS AI Booster ACPI Hardware monitor driver,
     72 		adapted from FreeBSD for envsys(4). [xtraeme 20070313]
     73 	evbmips: Add Infineon ADM5120 port. [dyoung 20070320]
     74 	i386, amd64: Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation driver, to save
     75 		power and overheating in CPUs supporting the Thermal
     76 		Monitor feature (TM). Adapted from OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
     77 		See options(4) for more information. [xtraeme 20070320]
     78 	kernel: Import of DRM (Direct Rendering Manager). Not yet enabled
     79 		by default. [drochner 20070320]
     80 	libc: Add support for LC_TIME. [manu 20070328]
     81 	genfb: Generic framebuffer console driver with PCI and SBus
     82 		frontends. [macallan 20070411]
     83 	sgimips: Add support for SGI O2 PS/2 controller macekbc(4) and
     84 		onboard display adapter crmfb(4). [jmcneill 20070412]
     85 	sgimips: Import mavb(4) audio device driver for SGI O2 from
     86 		OpenBSD. [jmcneill 20070412]
     87 	sparc64: Add support for hardware monitoring on
     88 		Ultra Enterprise 450. See envctrl(4). [tnn 20070414]
     89 	puffs(4): Support NFS exporting puffs file servers. [pooka 20070416]
     90 	xargs(1): Bring in xargs from FreeBSD to gain -I, -J etc. but keep our
     91 		GNU compatible exit values. [christos 20070418]
     92 	mount_9p(8): Add support to mount a 9P file service with puffs.
     93 		[pooka 20070421]
     94 	kernel: Remove the CHECK_ALT_xxx() defines and emul_find() used
     95 		to locate files within an emulation's root directory.
     96 		Instead get namei() to check the emulation root first.
     97 		[dsl 20070422]
     98 	prep: Add support for the MTX604 RAVEN based machine. Other RAVEN
     99 		based machines are also likely to work now. [garbled 20070426]
    100 	kernel: Added support for POSIX Asynchronous I/O. [rmind 20070430]
    101 	puffs(3): Add puffs_framebuf(3), which abstracts the buffer
    102 		management and event loop for networked file systems
    103 		using puffs_cc(3). Convert mount_psshfs(8) and
    104 		mount_9p(8) to use it. [pooka 20070505]
    105 	kernel: Add the TFTPROOT kernel option for TFTP'ing root RAMdisk
    106 		at root mount time. [manu 20070508]
    107 	pf(4): Make 'nat' and 'rdr' translation rules obey state
    108 		policy flags ('if-bound', 'group-bound', 'floating').
    109 		Extend pf.conf(5) syntax to express the translation-state
    110 		policies. [dyoung 20070510]
    111 	idlelwp: yamt-idlelwp branch was merged.
    112 		1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
    113 		2. implement idle lwp.
    114 		3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
    115 		4. make scheduler(s) modular.
    116 		[yamt 20070518]
    117 	ld.elf_so: Support Solaris $ORIGIN etc. expansions in paths.
    118 		[christos 20070518]
    119 	uslsa(4): Added CP210x USB-RS232 ucom driver, as submitted by
    120 		Jonathan A. Kollasch in PR kern/33496. [dogcow 20070520]
    121 	top(1): Allow a single process to be selected by pid.
    122 		Add a 'thread mode' that displays LWPs.
    123 		[ad 20070524]
    124 	libcurses: Merge in wide curses work done by Ruibiao Qui as a
    125 		Google Summer of Code project. [blymn 20070529]
    126 	powerpc: Add booted_kernel and booted_device sysctl. [nisimura 20070601]
    127 	smsc(4): Added a driver for the hardware monitoring portion of
    128 		the SMSC LPC47B397. [blymn 20070601]
    129 	file(1): Update to 4.21. [pooka 20070607]
    130 	zyd(4): Added OpenBSD's driver. Supports ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B
    131 		USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device. [kiyohara 20070609]
    132 	mac68k: Switch sn(4) Ethernet on mac68k to using MI SONIC driver.
    133 		[tsutsui 20070610]
    134 	tcp(4): Per socket keepalive timer settings. Ability to change
    135 		connection timeout. [christos 20070620].
    136 	newgrp(1): Add POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 / Open Group Base
    137 		Specifications Issue 6) User Portability Utility to change
    138 		effective group ID. [ginsbach 20060621]
    139 	GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20070620.  [mrg 20070621]
    140 	ntp: Updated to version 4.2.4p2. [kardel 20070624]
    141 	tcpdrop(8): Ported by anon ymous (from FreeBSD/OpenBSD).
    142 		[christos 20070625]
    143 	fast_ipsec(4): Add support for IPsec NAT-T. [degroote 20070627]
    144 	efs: Added read-only Silicon Graphics EFS file system. [rumble 20070629]
    145 	envsys(4), sysmon_envsys(9): Imported envsys2. New API with the
    146 		following features:
    147 		- Cleaned up the API for simplicity and efficiency.
    148 		- Ability to send capacity/critical/warning events to powerd(8).
    149 		- Added support for a 'dictionary based communication channel'
    150 		  between sysmon_power(9) and powerd(8), that means there is
    151 		  no 32 bytes event size event restriction anymore.
    152 		- Binary compatibility with old envstat(8) and powerd(8) via
    153 		  COMPAT_40.
    154 		And more, please see envsys(4) and sysmon_envsys(9) for more
    155 		information.
    156 		[xtraeme 20070701]
    157 	mount_puffsportal: Add experimental version of portalfs
    158 		based on puffs(3).  [pooka 20070708]
    159 	i386: Add gcscehci(4) driver for the EHCI controller found in the AMD
    160 		Geode CS5536 companion controllers. [jmcneill 20070708]
    161 	nfsmb(4): Add support for NVIDIA nForce 2/3/4 SMBus controller and
    162 		SMBus driver. [kiyohara 20070711]
    163 	dbri(4): Added support for audio input. [macallan 20070712]
    164 	alpha: Add timecounter(9) support and switch to MI todr(9)
    165 		with MI mc146818 driver. [tsutsui 20070721]
    166 	ichsmb(4): Add support for Intel ICH SMBus controller.
    167 		[kiyohara 20070728]
    168 	shark: Add dhclient(8) to the install disk image to be able to
    169 		configure network interfaces through DHCP.  [jmmv 20070729]
    170 	sparc: The cgfourteen driver now supports wscons. [macallan 20070730]
    171 	shark: Switched the installation disk to use wscons instead of
    172 		pccons. [jmmv 20070731]
    173 	tcp(4): TCP socket buffers automatic sizing, ported from FreeBSD.
    174 		[rmind 20070802]
    175 	agp(4): Add support agp_amd64. Imported from FreeBSD.
    176 		[kiyohara 20070804]
    177 	cpuctl(8): A new utility which allows setting CPUs online/offline.
    178 		[ad 20070804]
    179 	libpthread: Make some significant performance improvements around
    180 		thread synchronization, and fix a minor problem with
    181 		detaching running threads. [ad 20070804]
    182 	rump: Add the Runnable Userspace Meta Program framework to sys/rump.
    183 		These are programs which compile in a part from the standard
    184 		kernel sources and run in userspace.  Their main use is
    185 		testing/debugging. Currently supported are a number of
    186 		file systems (e.g. ffs) through puffs(3). [pooka 20070805]
    187 	wscons: Add scrollback support to vcons, this should work with
    188 		any framebuffer console driver that uses vcons.
    189 		[macallan 20070805]
    190 	wtf(6): Search pkgsrc's help database when ran inside a package
    191 		directory. [hubertf 20070806]
    192 	libpthread: Another performance improvement, and a fix for an issue
    193 		that could cause threaded applications to hang under rare
    194 		circumstances. [ad 20070807]
    195 	mount_sysctlfs(8): sysctl(3) to file system translator. [pooka 20070809]
    196 	slhci(4): Replace to Matthew Orgass's slhci(4). [kiyohara 20070815]
    197 	spdmem(4): Add Serial Presence Detect driver/support. This decodes
    198 		technical specifications stored in the eeprom on common types
    199 		of memory modules. [tnn 20070818]
    200 	btbc(4): Add support for AnyCom BlueCard. [kiyohara 20070820]
    201 	libm: Add C99 complex support (float/double). [drochner 20070820]
    202 	ichlpcib(4): The driver has added support for the TCO (watchdog) on
    203 		ICH6 or newer chipsets plus timecounter support. Also it can
    204 		be used on EM64T systems running the amd64 port. Adapted from
    205 		FreeBSD and OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070826]
    206 	agten(4): Add support for Fujitsu AG-10e graphics cards working as
    207 		accelerated framebuffer console. [macallan 20070826]
    208 	ag10e(4): Add XFree86 driver to run the AG-10e in 24bit with
    209 		acceleration. [macallan 20070830]
    210 	uchcom(4): Add support for WinChipHead CH341/340 USB-Serial adapter.
    211 		[tshiozak 20070903]
    212 	amd64, i386: cgd(4) is part of GENERIC. [joerg 20070906]
    213 	libpthread: scalability and performance enhancements. The MySQL
    214 		sysbench benchmark in read-only mode now scales to 900
    215 		simultaneous client threads on a 4xCPU i386 system before
    216 		serious performance drop-off occurs. [ad 20070907]
    217 	kernel: Added support for POSIX message queues. [rmind 20070907]
    218 	aps(4): driver for IBM Thinkpad Active Protection System,
    219 		provides support for some sensors exported through
    220 		the envsys(4) framework. Ported by Pierre Pronchery
    221 		from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20070911]
    222 	i386, amd64: pcc is now able to compile most of the i386 kernel.
    223 		a number of changes have been made for LKM and
    224 		preemption safety. [ad 20070927]
    225 	i386: i386 bootblocks are now able to boot amd64 kernels.
    226 		support for a.out kernels has been removed. [ad 20070927]
    227 	kernel: Added support for kernel core dumps to RAID 1 sets.
    228 		[oster 20071004]
    229 	kernel: The new socket option SO_NOHEADER tells the network
    230 		stack to strip the protocol header from packets
    231 		received on a raw socket. [dyoung 20071005]
    232 	gre(4): Available encapsulations increase to IPv6, UDP in
    233 		IPv6, and UDP in IPv4.  The Mobile IP encapsulation
    234 		is no more. [dyoung 20071005]
    235 	malloc: Replace the default memory allocator with 'jemalloc',
    236 		designed to perform well in both single- and multi-
    237 		threaded processes. This provides a significant
    238 		performance boost for many threaded workloads that
    239 		make use of malloc, such as MySQL. [ad 20071006]
    240 	kernel: A new SCHED_M2 scheduler, improves the performance on
    241 		MP systems, supports real-time and time-sharing classes,
    242 		ready for the CPU affinity. [rmind 20071009]
    243 	powerpc, prep, pmppc, evbppc, macppc, ibmnws, bebox, sandpoint, ofwppc:
    244 		Merge ppcoea-renovation branch. [garbled 20071017]
    245 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc PCI framework. [garbled 20071017]
    246 	powerpc: New generic interrupt handler framework. [macallan 20071017]
    247 	macppc: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework.
    248 		[macallan 20071017]
    249 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc ISA framework. [garbled 20071017]
    250 	bebox: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [matt 20071017]
    251 	prep: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework. [garbled 20071017]
    252 	powerpc: New generic shared timecounters-based clock routines.
    253 		[garbled 20071017]
    254 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc clock. [garbled 20071017]
    255 	sandpoint: Convert to generic soft interrupts. [nisimura 20071017]
    256 	sandpoint: Switch to generic powerpc interrupt framework.
    257 		[nisimura 20071017]
    258 	sandpoint: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/ISA framework.
    259 		[nisimura 20071017]
    260 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI framework.
    261 		[macallan 20071017]
    262 	pmppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock/PCI/interrupt framework.
    263 		[garbled 20071017]
    264 	pmppc: Remove pmppc as a port, and move it to a supported board under
    265 		evbppc. [garbled 20071017]
    266 	ibmnws: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework.
    267 		[rjs 20071017]
    268 	mvmeppc: Convert to generic powerpc clock.c/PCI/interrupt framework.
    269 		[garbled 20071017]
    270 	powerpc: Add shared PReP memory maps. [garbled 20071017]
    271 	sandpoint: DHCP/NFS bootloader. [nisimura 20071017]
    272 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_dma. [matt 20071017]
    273 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc bus_space. [garbled 20071017]
    274 	powerpc: Generic powerpc OpenFirmware code. [garbled 20071017]
    275 	ofppc: Completely rewrite ofppc port from scratch. [garbled 20071017]
    276 	bebox: Convert to generic powerpc PCI/ISA framework. [ober 20071017]
    277 	macppc: Use genfb as the default framebuffer instead of ofb.
    278 		[macallan 20071017]
    279 	macppc: Switch to new ADB subsystem. [macallan 20071017]
    280 	macppc: Add support for bus speed control found in some Intrepid-based
    281 		*Books like the 800MHz iBook G4. [macallan 20071017] 
    282 	powerpc: New generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
    283 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc IPI framework. [garbled 20071017]
    284 	powerpc: New generic powerpc SMP support framework. [garbled 20071017]
    285 	macppc: Convert to generic powerpc SMP framework. [macallan 20071017]
    286 	prep: Convert to generic powerpc IPI/SMP framework. [garbled 20071017]
    287 	ofppc: New ofwpci configuration methods, add rtas device.
    288 		[garbled 20071025]
    289 	shark: Removed pccons(4), obsoleted by wscons(4). [jmmv 20071028]
    290 	coretemp(4): Driver for Intel Core's on-die thermal sensor,
    291 		available on Core or newer CPUs. Ported from FreeBSD.
    292 		[xtraeme 20071029]
    293 	i386, amd64: Added support for Intel 82G965 chipset. [jnemeth 20071030]
    294 	ofppc: Stop using ofbus driver, rewrite console code [garbled 20071104]
    295 	ofppc, macppc: Convert to shared ofw_autoconf. [garbled 20071107]
    296 	nsclpcsio(4): Added support for the VLM logical device. This provides
    297 		14 voltage sensors in addition to the previous 3 temperature
    298 		sensors provided in the TMS logical device. From OpenBSD.
    299 		[xtraeme 20071109]
    300 	btkey(1): A new utility to manage Bluetooth link keys in OS and
    301 		and device storage. [plunky 20071109]
    302 	putter(9): A Pass-to-Userspace Transporter, a generic request-response
    303 		handler for kernel-attached userspace daemons (e.g. puffs(4)).
    304 		[pooka 20071110]
    305 	pad(4): Added the pseudo-audio device driver, for feeding back raw
    306 		PCM data to userland. [jmcneill 20071111]
    307 	r128fb(4): New accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics
    308 		controllers. [macallan 20071111]
    309 	atf: Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3.
    310 		Provides a framework to easily define and run test cases for
    311 		the NetBSD operating system.  Work until 0.1 sponsored by
    312 		Google Summer of Code 2007 and mentored by martin.
    313 		[jmmv 20071112]
    314 	sysinst: Add support to install the new tests.tgz set.
    315 		[jmmv 20071112]
    316 	tests: Converted the regress/bin tree to use ATF and migrated it
    317 		to tests/util. [jmmv 20071112]
    318 	tests: Converted the regress/sys/fs/tmpfs tree to use ATF and
    319 		migrated it to tests/fs/tmpfs. [jmmv 20071112]
    320 	tests: Converted the regress/games tree to use ATF and migrated it
    321 		to tests/games. [jmmv 20071112]
    322 	ahcisata(4): Add support for ATAPI devices. [bouyer 20071112]
    323 	newfs_ext2fs(8): Add a native newfs_ext2fs(8) command.
    324 		Closes PR bin/16175. [tsutsui 20071117]
    325 	i386, amd64: Add support for /boot.cfg to configure the bootloader.
    326 		This includes optionally displaying menus, altering banner
    327 		text and changing options such as timeouts and console device
    328 		which previously required use of installboot.
    329 		[sborrill 20071120]
    330 	pud(4): Add a driver via which it is possible to implement
    331 		block and character devices in userspace. [pooka 20071120]
    332 	xen: Added support for amd64 architecture, both as dom0 and domU.
    333 		[bouyer 20071122]
    334 	i386: Create a boot.cfg on the install CD to allow the end-user to
    335 		select either the standard or non-ACPI kernel easily.
    336 		[sborrill 20071123]
    337 	libsa: Add ext2fs support. [tsutsui 20071201]
    338 	bcsp(4): Add support for BlueCore Serial Protocol. [kiyohara 20071202]
    339 	toolchain: Install the linker scripts on amd64, which allows to
    340 		link x86 32bits objects using the native ld(1).
    341 		[bouyer 20071202]
    342 	arcmsr(4): Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller driver,
    343 		ported from OpenBSD. [xtraeme 20071204]
    344 	fxp(4): Fix some TX timeout and RX pool corruption problems.
    345 		Mostly from OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20071208]
    346 	ofppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [garbled 20071210]
    347 	ofppc: Added support for the bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. [garbled 20071210]
    348 	sandpoint: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [nisimura 20071211]
    349 	macppc: Convert to shared powerpc major numbers. [macallan 20071211]
    350 	acpi: Updated ACPI-CA to 20070320. [jmcneill 20071211]
    351 	kernel: Added a new power management framework, see pmf(9) for details.
    352 		[jmcneill,joerg 20071211]
    353 	ifconfig(8): Add 'list scan' to ifconfig, which list access point in
    354 		the neighbourhood. [adegroot 20071216]
    355 	MAKEDEV(8): Use pax(1) in preference to mknod(8) to create device
    356 		nodes more efficiently; use mount_tmpfs(8) in preference to
    357 		mount_mfs(8) when creating a memory file system. [apb 20071215]
    358 	nfe(4): Handle a quirk of newer MCP6x chips on reading MAC address.
    359 		[tsutsui 20071217]
    360 	rs6000: New port of NetBSD to the MCA based IBM RS/6000 7006-41T.
    361 		[garbled 20071217]
    362 	openssh: Import 4.7. [christos 20071217]
    363 	i386, amd64: Add support for ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on MP systems.
    364 		[joerg 20071218]
    365 	sparc64: Add support for Sun PGX32 / TechSource Raptor GFX 8P to
    366 		genfb ( mostly workarounds for firmware bugs ), also build
    367 		XFree86's glint driver for accelerated X. [macallan 20071219]
    368 	newsyslog: newsyslog.conf flag 'J' will bzip2 logfiles.
    369 		[dogcow 20071221]
    370 	thinkpad(4): Add driver for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad hotkeys and
    371 		brightness controls. [jmcneill 20071221]
    372 	kernel: Address Space Layout Randomization support in the kernel and
    373 		dynamic linker, see security(8). [elad,christos 20071226]
    374 	msdosfs: Significantly improved writing speed (up to 16x faster).
    375 		[reinoud 20071228]
    376 	itesio(4): Added support for the Watchdog Timer. [xtraeme 20071229]
    377 	usermode: Add port of the NetBSD kernel to userspace.
    378 		[jmcneill 20071229]
    379 	hp700: Kernels are now compiled with -O2. [skrll 20071230]
    380 	compat_hpux: Removed. [ad 20071231]
    381 	systrace(1): Removed. [ad 20071231]
    382 	tprof: Add tprof, a simple performance monitor based profiler,
    383 		inspired from linux oprofile.  it's still very experimental.
    384 		[yamt 20080102]
    385 	bioctl(8): Rewritten to handle new features like creating/removing
    386 		hot-spare, pass-through disks and RAID volumes, start/stop
    387 		consistency checks in volumes and others. [xtraeme 20080102]
    388 	arcmsr(4): Added support to create/remove hot-spare, pass-through
    389 		disks and RAID volumes, start/stop consistency checks
    390 		in volumes as well as showing information about physical
    391 		disks (even if they are marked as hot-spare, pass-through
    392 		or unused). [xtraeme 20080102]
    393 	ofppc: Support intallation and RAID bootable root. [mrg 20080102]
    394 	gem(4): Add support for Sun SX fibre cards.  [jdc 20080105]
    395 	kernel: All platforms have been converted to use generic TODR.
    396 		[gdamore,joerg 20080108]
    397 	ulpt(4): Implement non-blocking read. [gdt 20080108]
    398 	gcscpcib(4): Added driver for the AMD CS5535 and CS5536 Companion
    399 		Device with support for Timecounter, Watchdog Timer and
    400 		GPIO. Adapted from OpenBSD by Yojiro UO. [xtraeme 20080109]
    401 	pc532: Port deleted. [simonb 20080109]
    402 	ofppc: Fix ofwboot to work on an IBM CHRP-based RS/6000.
    403 		[garbled 20080109]
    404 	i386: Add sparse kernel core dumps (minidumps) for this platform
    405 		using a backwards-compatible on-disk core format. Not
    406 		turned on by default yet. Similar to FreeBSD minidumps but
    407 		simpler in implementation. Implementation by Jed Davis and
    408 		Devon O'Dell, contributed to NetBSD by Coyote Point Systems.
    409 		[tls 20080110]
    410 	hppa: Added gdb support. [skrll 20080110]
    411 	auvia(4): Make this work on big endian machines. [tsutsui 20080114]
    412 	kernel: Implementation of processor-sets and affinity. [rmind 20080115]
    413 	libpthread: POSIX real-time extensions. [rmind 20080115]
    414 	schedctl(8): A new program to control scheduling of processes and
    415 		threads. [rmind 20080115]
    416 	kernel: Added a new framework for kernel modules, enabled through the
    417 		MODULAR kernel option and used through the modctl(2) system
    418 		call.  [ad 20080116]
    419 	modules: Added new versions of modload(8), modstat(8) and modunload(8)
    420 		that use modctl(2).  Not built by default.  [ad 20080116]
    421 	bktr(4): Added amd64 support. [jmcneill 20080116]
    422 	ofppc: Add support for the IBM 7044-270. [garbled 20080117]
    423 	fdisk(8): Fix possible division by zero errors. [tsutsui 20080120]
    424 	kernel: All platforms have been converted to use timecounter.
    425 		[joerg 20080120]
    426 	usb: Add uhmodem(4) driver for Huawei E220 wireless modem.
    427 		[ichiro 20080121]
    428 	compat_linux32: Add ossaudio support. [jmcneill 20080121]
    429 	xen: Added support for the i386 PAE extention to Xen3 domU
    430 		[bouyer 20080123]
    431 	uhub(4): The device attachment function has been optimized to
    432 		improve system startup time. [jmcneill 20080124]
    433 	kernel: The interface for IP checksumming was changed to reduce
    434 		duplication and more general use. [joerg 20080125]
    435 	hostapd/wpa_supplicant: Upgrade to 0.6.2 [christos 20080126]
    436 	nfe(4): Wakeup some newer chips from powerdown mode.
    437 		From FreeBSD/Linux driver via OpenBSD. [tsutsui 20080126]
    438 	sgimips: Enable bootinfo passed from bootloader so that now kernel
    439 		symbol table and ksyms(4) are usable. [tsutsui 20080126]
    440 	hpcmips: Fix silent hangup problem on TX3922 machines.
    441 		From Risto Sainio. [tsutsui 20080126]
    442 	openpam: upgrade to 20071221 [christos 20080126]
    443 	azalia(4): Analog Devices AD1984 codec support has been improved
    444 		to support headphones and 4 channel playback, and now
    445 		exposes an outputs.master mixer control that mirrors the
    446 		inputs.dac mixer control to make libossaudio happy.
    447 		[jmcneill 20080130]
    448 	arc: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
    449 	cobalt: Add sysinst support. [tsutsui 20080202]
    450 	GCC: Updated to version 4.1.3-20080202.  [mrg 20080202]
    451 	atf: Import 0.4.  [jmmv 20080204]
    452 	sgimips: Add hardware acceleration for crmfb [macallan 20080205]
    453 	modules: Added the MKMODULAR option to the build system to easily
    454 		enable the build of the new kernel modules framework.
    455 		[jmmv 20080209]
    456 	iwn(4): Added a driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless Lan 4965AGN          
    457 		Mini-PCI Adapter, ported from OpenBSD. [ober 20080209]
    458 	ofppc: Add support for the 7046-B50. [garbled 2008-02-13]
    459 	powerpc: Add tuned assembler from IBM for memcpy, memmove and memcmp.
    460 		[garbled 20080221]
    461 	monop(6): Save and restore format changed; compatibility with old
    462 		save files broken, but they were not usable anyway.
    463 		[dholland 20080223]
    464 	mfi(4): Added support for LSI SAS1078 and Dell PERC 6, from OpenBSD.
    465 		[xtraeme 20080225]
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