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authorhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-22 10:34:40 +0000
committerhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-22 10:34:40 +0000
commita986ceef8da1f3c7f37ca981d799c33b3e6ae3f2 (patch)
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parent606d160676db9afabb3d0d2f714c6174c3d6826b (diff)
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New release notes:
32MB memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges, pbio(4), and vge(4) polling support. MFC: IPv6 MTU feedback disabled.
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml21
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml21
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index fe6eaf8..0d2e249 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@
notably &man.mac.biba.4;, &man.mac.mls.4;, &man.mac.stub.4;, and
&man.mac.test.4;.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has
+ been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges
+ only allow allocation from this range and this only applies
+ to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
+ This change fixes the <quote>bad Vcc</quote> error of CardBus
+ bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged;</para>
+
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="boot">
@@ -180,7 +187,7 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
-
+
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive
some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus
&ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para>
@@ -200,6 +207,11 @@
<para>The pcii driver has been added to support GPIB-PCIIA IEEE-488
cards.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.pbio.4; driver,
+ which supports direct access to
+ the Intel 8255A programmable peripheral interface (PPI)
+ chip running in mode 0 (simple I/O) has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
@@ -281,6 +293,9 @@
This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based
interfaces. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling
+ (&man.polling.4;).</para>
+
<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been
greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes,
it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x,
@@ -297,7 +312,7 @@
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para>The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes
- data that must be fragmented.</para>
+ data that must be fragmented. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket,
@@ -377,7 +392,7 @@
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More
- details can be found in errata note
+ details can be found in errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index fe6eaf8..0d2e249 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@
notably &man.mac.biba.4;, &man.mac.mls.4;, &man.mac.stub.4;, and
&man.mac.test.4;.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has
+ been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges
+ only allow allocation from this range and this only applies
+ to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
+ This change fixes the <quote>bad Vcc</quote> error of CardBus
+ bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged;</para>
+
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<sect3 id="boot">
@@ -180,7 +187,7 @@
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
-
+
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive
some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus
&ultrasparc; models. &merged;</para>
@@ -200,6 +207,11 @@
<para>The pcii driver has been added to support GPIB-PCIIA IEEE-488
cards.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.pbio.4; driver,
+ which supports direct access to
+ the Intel 8255A programmable peripheral interface (PPI)
+ chip running in mode 0 (simple I/O) has been added.</para>
+
<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
@@ -281,6 +293,9 @@
This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based
interfaces. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling
+ (&man.polling.4;).</para>
+
<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been
greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes,
it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x,
@@ -297,7 +312,7 @@
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para>The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes
- data that must be fragmented.</para>
+ data that must be fragmented. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket,
@@ -377,7 +392,7 @@
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More
- details can be found in errata note
+ details can be found in errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
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