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| author | rodrigc <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-12-22 11:41:26 +0000 |
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| committer | rodrigc <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-12-22 11:41:26 +0000 |
| commit | 008047911e7b23054727d1f1e7e285e131d57c5f (patch) | |
| tree | f76721369d6697dd3222d521338bee3beb5443bb /release | |
| parent | 5caa3123dd7fa94873a66d482c0d68f4e28d5b1f (diff) | |
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Mention virtio support.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 2b8bb3e..31fd741 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> + <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the + name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but + since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). + This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers + for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), + memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. + Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para> + <para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> |
