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diff --git a/base-target-features.lisp-expr b/base-target-features.lisp-expr
index 207a04f..622a1b4 100644
--- a/base-target-features.lisp-expr
+++ b/base-target-features.lisp-expr
@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@
  ;; readtable configured so that the system sources can be read.
  ; :sb-show
 
- ;; Build SBCL with the old CMU CL low level debugger, "ldb". If 
- ;; are aren't messing with CMU CL at a very low level (e.g. 
- ;; trying to diagnose GC problems, or trying to debug assembly
- ;; code for a port to a new CPU) you shouldn't need this.
+ ;; Build SBCL with the old CMU CL low level debugger, "ldb". If are
+ ;; aren't messing with SBCL at a very low level (e.g., trying to
+ ;; diagnose GC problems, or trying to debug assembly code for a port
+ ;; to a new CPU) you shouldn't need this.
  ; :sb-ldb
 
  ;; This isn't really a target Lisp feature at all, but controls
@@ -159,16 +159,32 @@
  ;; Note that no consistent effort to audit the SBCL library code for
  ;; thread safety has been performed, so caveat executor.
  ; :sb-thread
+
+ ;; Kernel support for futexes (so-called "fast userspace mutexes") is
+ ;; available in Linux 2.6 and some versions of 2.4 (Red Hat vendor
+ ;; kernels, possibly other vendors too).  We can take advantage of
+ ;; these to do faster and probably more reliable mutex and condition
+ ;; variable support.  An SBCL built with this feature will fall back
+ ;; to the old system if the futex() syscall is not available at
+ ;; runtime
+ ; :sb-futex
+
+ ;; Support for detection of unportable code (when applied to the
+ ;; COMMON-LISP package, or SBCL-internal pacakges) or bad-neighbourly
+ ;; code (when applied to user-level packages), relating to material
+ ;; alteration to packages or to bindings in symbols in packages.
+ :sb-package-locks
+
+ ;; Support for the entirety of the 21-bit character space defined by
+ ;; the Unicode consortium, rather than the classical 8-bit ISO-8859-1
+ ;; character set.
+ :sb-unicode
  
  ;; This affects the definition of a lot of things in bignum.lisp. It
  ;; doesn't seem to be documented anywhere what systems it might apply
  ;; to. It doesn't seem to be needed for X86 systems anyway.
  ; :32x16-divide
 
- ;; This is probably true for some processor types, but not X86. It
- ;; affects a lot of floating point code.
- ; :negative-zero-is-not-zero
-
  ;; This is set in classic CMU CL, and presumably there it means
  ;; that the floating point arithmetic implementation
  ;; conforms to IEEE's standard. Here it definitely means that the
@@ -272,6 +288,7 @@
  ;;              particular version of BSD we're intended to run under.)
  ;;   :freebsd = We're intended to run under FreeBSD.
  ;;   :openbsd = We're intended to run under OpenBSD.
+ ;;   :netbsd  = We're intended to run under NetBSD.
  ;;   :sunos   = We're intended to run under Solaris user environment
  ;;              with the SunOS kernel.
  ;;   :osf1    = We're intended to run under Tru64 (aka Digital Unix