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| author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-04-27 22:25:15 +0000 |
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| committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-04-27 22:25:15 +0000 |
| commit | 7cb1d1c1b0869288b29dad5543e73a8c65ae7fe5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e365b419337d136be77361bbd695e1761b49c6e /release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1 | |
| parent | 3abca35872bd27de36ce910a72f01943d223f423 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-7cb1d1c1b0869288b29dad5543e73a8c65ae7fe5.zip FreeBSD-src-7cb1d1c1b0869288b29dad5543e73a8c65ae7fe5.tar.gz | |
New release note: SMPng on alpha.
MFC noted: wx(4) hardware support.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 22195f3..493a153 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -50,14 +50,6 @@ <para arch="i386">A driver for AGP hardware has been added. &merged;</para> - <para>SMP support has been largely reworked, incorporating code - from BSD/OS 5.0. One of the main features of SMPng (<quote>SMP Next - Generation</quote>) is to allow more processes to run in kernel, without - the need for spin locks that can dramatically reduce the - efficiency of multiple processors. Interrupt handlers now have - contexts associated with them that allow them to be blocked, which - reduces the need to lock out interrupts.</para> - <para>The kernel and modules have been moved to the directory <filename>/boot/kernel</filename>, so they can be easily manipulated together. The boot loader has been updated to make @@ -176,6 +168,15 @@ <sect3> <title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title> + <para>SMP support has been largely reworked, incorporating code + from BSD/OS 5.0. One of the main features of SMPng (<quote>SMP + Next Generation</quote>) is to allow more processes to run in + kernel, without the need for spin locks that can dramatically + reduce the efficiency of multiple processors. Interrupt + handlers now have contexts associated with them that allow them + to be blocked, which reduces the need to lock out + interrupts.</para> + <para arch="i386">Support for the 80386 processor has been removed from the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel, as this code seriously pessimizes performance on other ia32 @@ -213,6 +214,9 @@ (EV4 and EV5) to emulate instructions of the newer Alpha CPU generations. This enables the use of binary-only programs like Adobe Acrobat 4 on EV4 and EV5.</para> + + <para arch="alpha">SMP support for the alpha is now operational.</para> + </sect3> <sect3> |
