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author | adrian <adrian@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-03-31 08:32:53 +0000 |
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committer | adrian <adrian@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-03-31 08:32:53 +0000 |
commit | 93277541d5167fedb7485ff9dcbf752acc17ba62 (patch) | |
tree | 2dcc9804ae13c875ec1caee4d4ec0610527975f5 /UPDATING | |
parent | 94ec7d298848badbf8397b4223feb987bc9a8d38 (diff) | |
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Document the ath glue changes.
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@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW: machines to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) +20110331: + ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains + the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci + contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb + contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath + in order to use ath on everything else. + + TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only + need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation. + 20110218: GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD. This is the last available version under GPLv2. It brings a number of new |