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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-05-09 20:22:10 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-05-09 20:22:10 +0000
commitbd207a432bd9e01f3fca02fa76e62b214190738b (patch)
tree50ec0af42856ad0eb1a488a0a58e09bb5680751f /release
parent56622eb054db52268a73fa2b83766d4db4efc20d (diff)
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New release notes:
- mpt(4), isp(4), ciss(4) MPSAFE - rum(4) driver added - hptiop(4) driver added Updated release notes: - em(4) driver updated to 6.5.0 - small fixes in the top -j entry - twa(4) update to 3.60.03.006
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml27
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index fa3d630..0a052f2 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -359,6 +359,12 @@
It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in
functionality) for all platforms except &arch.sun4v;.</para>
+ <para>The Linux ABI support was enhanced to support emulation of
+ Linux 2.6.16. This is not enabled by default. To turn it on
+ the <varname>compat.linux.osrelease</varname> sysctl variable
+ has to be set to <literal>2.6.16</literal>. Note that this
+ support is still experimental.</para>
+
<para>Support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and Extended
Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X) has been added to the kernel's
PCI support code. &merged;</para>
@@ -747,8 +753,8 @@
architectures such as sparc64. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to
- version 6.2.9 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports
- 80003, 82571, 82571EB and 82572 based adapters, as well as
+ version 6.5.0 from Intel. Among other changes, it now supports
+ 80003, 82571, 82571EB, 82572 and 82575 based adapters, as well as
onboard-NICs on ICH8-based motherboards. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver now includes
@@ -831,6 +837,10 @@
<para>The &man.re.4; driver now supports the D-Link DGE-528(T)
Gigabit Ethernet card.</para>
+ <para>The &man.rum.4; driver has been added. It supports
+ WLAN adapters based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB
+ chipsets.</para>
+
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.sk.4; driver is now MPSAFE. &merged;</para>
@@ -1179,6 +1189,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The CAM subsystem is now MPSAFE.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ciss.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
<para>The <literal>GEOM_LABEL</literal> class now supports
Ext2FS, NTFS, and ReiserFS. &merged;</para>
@@ -1234,9 +1246,14 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
has been renamed to <filename>geom_md.ko</filename>
for consistency.</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The hptiop(4) driver has been added.
+ It supports the Highpoint RocketRAID 3xxx series of controllers.</para>
+
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] The &man.hptmv.4; driver has been updated and now supports
amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
+ <para>The &man.isp.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
<para>The &man.mfi.4; driver, which supports
the LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family, has been added.
&merged;</para>
@@ -1251,7 +1268,9 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver now supports SAS HBA (partially),
64-bit PCI, and large data transfer.</para>
- <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 9.3.0.1
+ <para>The &man.mpt.4; driver is now MPSAFE.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 3.60.03.006
release on the 3ware Web site. &merged;</para>
<para>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been
@@ -1819,7 +1838,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
titles via &man.setproctitle.3;.</para>
<para>The &man.top.1; program now supports a <option>-j</option>
- flag to display &man.jail.8; id for each process. &merged;</para>
+ flag to display the &man.jail.8; ID for each process. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.traceroute.8; program now supports
a <option>-D</option> flag, which causes it to display the
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