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| author | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-10 15:58:57 +0000 |
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| committer | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-10 15:58:57 +0000 |
| commit | ea4009d75fdeef33d5c89a76ef4af00adf259d47 (patch) | |
| tree | f782847772855fc58dd9904985f9d930b699ee86 /release | |
| parent | 8a7a286726246f32203322d44986c8af99e7eae2 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-ea4009d75fdeef33d5c89a76ef4af00adf259d47.zip FreeBSD-src-ea4009d75fdeef33d5c89a76ef4af00adf259d47.tar.gz | |
Add note on instruction emulation on EV[45] for things like BWX.
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| -rw-r--r-- | release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 4 |
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diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 77f4710..6b05cc8 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ console devices, Ethernet and point-to-point network interfaces, and mass-storage devices. Entropy from the random(4) device is now periodically saved to files in /var/db/entropy. +Kernel code has been added that allows older generation Alpha CPUs +(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. 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- |
