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authorhrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2004-09-18 06:38:08 +0000
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Reorganize the "Kernel Changes" section, including:
- Add "Hardware Support" section and move device driver-related items there. - Move "Multimedia Support" and "Network Interface Support" into the "Hardware Support" section as sub-sections. - Move Netgraph-related items to "Network Protocols". For translators: many items are moved but the contents are not changed.
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@@ -229,37 +229,6 @@
has been added. This improves the performance of SMP machines
and is enabled by default on the i386.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
- to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
- LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
- to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
- Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
- CF-R3.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
- to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
- certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
- video output switching.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
- control display switching and backlight brightness using the
- ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
- per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
- for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
- device can wake the system.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
- be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
- This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
- <varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
- aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
-
<para>The &man.bus.dma.9; interface now supports transparently honoring
the alignment and boundary constraints in the DMA tag
when loading buffers, and <function>bus_dmamap_load()</function>
@@ -273,43 +242,11 @@
by setting a sysctl <varname>vm.old_contigmalloc</varname>. More details
can be found in the &man.contigmalloc.9; manual page.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
- synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
- <quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
-
- <note>
- <para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
- has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
- </note>
- </para>
-
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
- synchronous serial adapters.
- </para>
-
<para>The &man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
- (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
- removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
- which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
- driver.</para>
-
<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
- <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
- long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
- MTU size.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
- TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
- Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
- for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
- UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
- This can be reactivated by setting the special link
- option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
-
<para>The <varname>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range</varname>
loader tunable has been removed.</para>
@@ -399,10 +336,6 @@
Linux binaries on amd64 has been added. This feature is enabled with the
<literal>COMPAT_LINUX32</literal> kernel option.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
- (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
- breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
-
<para>A new kernel option <literal>MAC_STATIC</literal> which
disables internal MAC Framework synchronization protecting against
dynamic load and unload of MAC policies, has been added.</para>
@@ -472,54 +405,39 @@
<para arch="i386,amd64">A loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname>
has been enabled by default.</para>
- <para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
-
- <para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
- (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
- It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
- to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
- kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
- this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
- been commented out for a long time.</para>
-
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">A new kernel option
<literal>PREEMPTION</literal> has been added.
This allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted
by higher priority threads. It helps with interactivity and
allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
- now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
- <literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
- which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
- intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
-
<para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree,
in order to support per-class variables in addition to
per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname>
is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is
possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para>
+ <para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
+ has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
+ the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
+
<para>A sysctl <varname>kern.sched.name</varname>
which has the name of the scheduler currently in use,
has been added, and the <varname>kern.quantum</varname> sysctl
has been moved to <varname>kern.sched.quantum</varname>
for consistency.</para>
- <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
- the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
- <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
- have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
- debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
+ <para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
+ been updated.
- <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
- BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
+ has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
+ This can be disabled by setting the tunable
+ <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
+ <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
<para>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler.
Note that the conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used
@@ -536,13 +454,6 @@
kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make
more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para>
- <para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
- the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
- such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
- receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
- This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
- control and output.</para>
-
<para>A linear search algorithm used in
&man.vm.map.findspace.9; has been replaced with
an O(log n) algorithm built into the map entry splay tree.
@@ -555,25 +466,6 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
- <para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
- have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
- automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
- major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
- pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
- new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
- cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
- require recompiling after this change.</para>
-
- <para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
- the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
- interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
- <devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
- Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
- <command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
- the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
- not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
- <devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
-
<para>The &os; dynamic and static linker now support Thread Local Storage (TLS),
a <application>GCC</application> feature which supports
a <literal>__thread</literal> modifier
@@ -604,36 +496,6 @@
kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
- <sect3 id="proc">
- <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
-
- <para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
- supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
- in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
- including
- the <devicename>asc</devicename> driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
- the <devicename>ctx</devicename> driver for CORTEX-I Frame Grabber,
- the <devicename>gp</devicename> driver for National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards,
- the <devicename>gsc</devicename> driver for the Genius GS-4500 hand scanner,
- the <devicename>le</devicename> driver for DEC EtherWORKS II and III Ethernet controllers,
- the <devicename>rdp</devicename> driver for RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket Ethernet adapters,
- the <devicename>spigot</devicename> driver for the Creative Labs Video Spigot video-acquisition board,
- the <devicename>stl</devicename> and
- <devicename>stli</devicename> drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial
- controllers, and the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver for Archive/Wangtek cartridge tapes.
- They are currently non-functional, and would require a considerable
- amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
- The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
- <devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename>
- has also been removed.</para>
-
- <para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
- has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
- the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
- </sect3>
-
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@@ -651,128 +513,265 @@
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="net-if">
- <title>Network Interface Support</title>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
- Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
- Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
- Open Firmware.</para>
-
- <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
- reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
- Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
- MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
- This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
- standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
- the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
- <varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
- on a per-device basis.</para>
-
- <para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
- to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
- It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
- <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
- to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
- (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
- driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
- has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
- Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
- added. &merged;</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
- (LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
- removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
- for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
- adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
- &windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
- the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
- using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
- (&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
- and is designed principally for
- Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
- For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
- &man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
+ <sect3 id="proc">
+ <title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
- RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
+ to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
+ LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
- a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
- has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
+ to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
+ Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
+ CF-R3.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
- Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
- RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
+ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
+ certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
+ video output switching.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
- interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
- lines, has been added.</para>
+ <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
+ control display switching and backlight brightness using the
+ ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
- <para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
- behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
- Netgraph nodes.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
+ per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
+ for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
+ device can wake the system.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
+ be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
+ This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
+ <varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
- <para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
- from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
+ aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
- <para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
- been updated.
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
+ synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
+ <quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
- <para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
- has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
- This can be disabled by setting the tunable
- <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
- <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ <para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
+ has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
- <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
- in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
+ synchronous serial adapters.</para>
- <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
- handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
+ (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
+ removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
+ which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
+ driver.</para>
- <para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
- &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
- <para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
- support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
- chipset.</para>
+ <para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
+ (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
+ It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
+ to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
- <para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
- the VIA Networking Technologies
- VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
- has been added.</para>
+ <para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
+ kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
+ this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
+ been commented out for a long time.</para>
- <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
+ now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
- <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
- has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
- the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
+ supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
+ in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
- <para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
- can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
- (&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
- &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
- now also support this capability and it can be controlled
- via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
+ <literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
+ which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
+ intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
+
+ <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
+ the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
+ <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
+ have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
+ debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
+ BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
+ the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
+ such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
+ receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
+ This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
+ control and output.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
+ including
+ the <devicename>asc</devicename> driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
+ the <devicename>ctx</devicename> driver for CORTEX-I Frame Grabber,
+ the <devicename>gp</devicename> driver for National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards,
+ the <devicename>gsc</devicename> driver for the Genius GS-4500 hand scanner,
+ the <devicename>le</devicename> driver for DEC EtherWORKS II and III Ethernet controllers,
+ the <devicename>rdp</devicename> driver for RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket Ethernet adapters,
+ the <devicename>spigot</devicename> driver for the Creative Labs Video Spigot video-acquisition board,
+ the <devicename>stl</devicename> and
+ <devicename>stli</devicename> drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial
+ controllers, and the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver for Archive/Wangtek cartridge tapes.
+ They are currently non-functional, and would require a considerable
+ amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
+ The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
+ <devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename>
+ has also been removed.</para>
+
+ <para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
+ have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
+ automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
+ major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
+ pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
+ new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
+ cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
+ require recompiling after this change.</para>
+
+ <sect4 id="mm">
+ <title>Multimedia Support</title>
+
+ <para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
+ driver has been removed due to
+ breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+
+ <para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
+ from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
+ includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
+
+ <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
+ <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
+ and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
+ The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
+ and several sound cards, has been removed.
+ More details can be found in related manual pages:
+ &man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
+ &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
+ &man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
+ &man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
+ <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
+ of default values for mixer channels.
+ Note that currently the device driver's name used in
+ <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
+ More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
+ manual page.</para>
+ </sect4>
+
+ <sect4 id="net-if">
+ <title>Network Interface Support</title>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
+ Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
+ Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
+ Open Firmware.</para>
+
+ <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
+ reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
+ Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
+ MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
+ This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
+ standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
+ the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
+ <varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
+ on a per-device basis.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
+ to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the
+ <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
+ It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
+ <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
+ to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
+ (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
+ driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
+ has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
+ long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
+ MTU size.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
+ TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
+ Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
+ for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
+ UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
+ This can be reactivated by setting the special link
+ option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
+ Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
+ added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
+ (LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
+ removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
+ (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
+ breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
+ for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
+ adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
+ &windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
+ the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
+ using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
+ (&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
+ and is designed principally for
+ Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
+ For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
+ &man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
+
+ <para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
+ from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
+ in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
+ handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
+ &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
+ support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
+ chipset.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
+ the VIA Networking Technologies
+ VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
+ has been added.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
+ has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
+ the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
+ can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
+ (&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
+ &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
+ now also support this capability and it can be controlled
+ via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
+ </sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
@@ -841,6 +840,28 @@
This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to
different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
+ RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
+ a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
+ has been added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
+ Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
+ RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
+ interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
+ lines, has been added.</para>
+
+ <para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
+ behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
+ Netgraph nodes.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
+ IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
+
<para><literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> support is now always
compiled into the kernel, and the associated kernel compile
options have been removed. All of the packet filter subsystems
@@ -855,6 +876,16 @@
in RFC 1989, allows PPP to keep track of the quality
of a running connection. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
+ the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
+ interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
+ <devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
+ Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
+ <command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
+ the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
+ not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
+ <devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
+
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
@@ -901,7 +932,6 @@
2018 have been added. This improves TCP performance over
connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with
the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable</varname>.</para>
-
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@@ -934,45 +964,6 @@
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
- <para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
- Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
- which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
- has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
- 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
- ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
- &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
- A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
- ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
- 1e and 2 machines.</para>
-
- <para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="fs">
- <title>File Systems</title>
-
- <para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
- &man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
-
- <para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
- for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
- it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
- not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
- do not have the
- <literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
- in the superblock.</para>
-
<para>A bug in &man.geom.4; that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
cases has been fixed.</para>
@@ -1036,18 +1027,49 @@
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;
has been added.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
+ Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
+ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
+ has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
+ 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
+ ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
+ &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
+ A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
+ ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
+ 1e and 2 machines.</para>
+
+ <para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="fs">
+ <title>File Systems</title>
+
+ <para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
+ &man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
+
+ <para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
+ for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
+ it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
+ not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
+ do not have the
+ <literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
+ in the superblock.</para>
+
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
server.</para>
- <para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
- which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
- required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
- default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
- significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
- if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
- option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
-
<para>The <literal>MSDOSFS_LARGE</literal> kernel option
has been added to support for FAT32 file systems bigger
than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It
@@ -1057,37 +1079,14 @@
with less than 1 million files and so on.
Exporting these large file systems
over NFS is not supported.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3 id="mm">
- <title>Multimedia Support</title>
-
- <para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
- driver has been removed due to
- breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
-
- <para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
- from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
- includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
-
- <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
- <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
- and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
- The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
- and several sound cards, has been removed.
- More details can be found in related manual pages:
- &man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
- &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
- &man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
- &man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
- <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
- of default values for mixer channels.
- Note that currently the device driver's name used in
- <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
- More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
- manual page.</para>
+ <para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
+ which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
+ required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
+ default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
+ significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
+ if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
+ option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 10eaeed..9f6cd97 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -229,37 +229,6 @@
has been added. This improves the performance of SMP machines
and is enabled by default on the i386.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
- to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
- LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
- to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
- Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
- CF-R3.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
- to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
- certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
- video output switching.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
- control display switching and backlight brightness using the
- ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
- per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
- for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
- device can wake the system.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
- be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
- This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
- <varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
- aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
-
<para>The &man.bus.dma.9; interface now supports transparently honoring
the alignment and boundary constraints in the DMA tag
when loading buffers, and <function>bus_dmamap_load()</function>
@@ -273,43 +242,11 @@
by setting a sysctl <varname>vm.old_contigmalloc</varname>. More details
can be found in the &man.contigmalloc.9; manual page.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
- synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
- <quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
-
- <note>
- <para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
- has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
- </note>
- </para>
-
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
- synchronous serial adapters.
- </para>
-
<para>The &man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
- (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
- removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
- which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
- driver.</para>
-
<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
- <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
- long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
- MTU size.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
- TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
- Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
- for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
- UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
- This can be reactivated by setting the special link
- option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
-
<para>The <varname>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range</varname>
loader tunable has been removed.</para>
@@ -399,10 +336,6 @@
Linux binaries on amd64 has been added. This feature is enabled with the
<literal>COMPAT_LINUX32</literal> kernel option.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
- (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
- breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
-
<para>A new kernel option <literal>MAC_STATIC</literal> which
disables internal MAC Framework synchronization protecting against
dynamic load and unload of MAC policies, has been added.</para>
@@ -472,54 +405,39 @@
<para arch="i386,amd64">A loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname>
has been enabled by default.</para>
- <para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
-
- <para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
- (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
- It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
- to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
- kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
- this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
- been commented out for a long time.</para>
-
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">A new kernel option
<literal>PREEMPTION</literal> has been added.
This allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted
by higher priority threads. It helps with interactivity and
allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.</para>
- <para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
- now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
- <literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
- which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
- intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
-
<para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree,
in order to support per-class variables in addition to
per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname>
is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is
possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para>
+ <para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
+ has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
+ the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
+
<para>A sysctl <varname>kern.sched.name</varname>
which has the name of the scheduler currently in use,
has been added, and the <varname>kern.quantum</varname> sysctl
has been moved to <varname>kern.sched.quantum</varname>
for consistency.</para>
- <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
- the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
- <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
- have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
- debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
+ <para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
+ been updated.
- <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
- BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
+ has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
+ This can be disabled by setting the tunable
+ <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
+ <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
<para>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler.
Note that the conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used
@@ -536,13 +454,6 @@
kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make
more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para>
- <para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
- the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
- such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
- receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
- This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
- control and output.</para>
-
<para>A linear search algorithm used in
&man.vm.map.findspace.9; has been replaced with
an O(log n) algorithm built into the map entry splay tree.
@@ -555,25 +466,6 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
- <para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
- have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
- automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
- major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
- pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
- new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
- cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
- require recompiling after this change.</para>
-
- <para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
- the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
- interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
- <devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
- Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
- <command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
- the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
- not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
- <devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
-
<para>The &os; dynamic and static linker now support Thread Local Storage (TLS),
a <application>GCC</application> feature which supports
a <literal>__thread</literal> modifier
@@ -604,36 +496,6 @@
kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
- <sect3 id="proc">
- <title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
-
- <para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
- supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
- in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
- including
- the <devicename>asc</devicename> driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
- the <devicename>ctx</devicename> driver for CORTEX-I Frame Grabber,
- the <devicename>gp</devicename> driver for National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards,
- the <devicename>gsc</devicename> driver for the Genius GS-4500 hand scanner,
- the <devicename>le</devicename> driver for DEC EtherWORKS II and III Ethernet controllers,
- the <devicename>rdp</devicename> driver for RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket Ethernet adapters,
- the <devicename>spigot</devicename> driver for the Creative Labs Video Spigot video-acquisition board,
- the <devicename>stl</devicename> and
- <devicename>stli</devicename> drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial
- controllers, and the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver for Archive/Wangtek cartridge tapes.
- They are currently non-functional, and would require a considerable
- amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
- The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
- <devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename>
- has also been removed.</para>
-
- <para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
- has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
- the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
- </sect3>
-
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
@@ -651,128 +513,265 @@
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="net-if">
- <title>Network Interface Support</title>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
- Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
- Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
- Open Firmware.</para>
-
- <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
- reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
- Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
- MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
- This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
- standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
- the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
- <varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
- on a per-device basis.</para>
-
- <para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
- to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
- It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
- <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
- to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
- (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
- driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
- has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
- Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
- added. &merged;</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
- (LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
- removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
- for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
- adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
- &windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
- the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
- using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
- (&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
- and is designed principally for
- Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
- For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
- &man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
+ <sect3 id="proc">
+ <title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
- RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
+ to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
+ LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
- a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
- has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
+ to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
+ Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
+ CF-R3.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
- Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
- RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
+ to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
+ certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
+ video output switching.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
- interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
- lines, has been added.</para>
+ <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
+ control display switching and backlight brightness using the
+ ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
- <para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
- behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
- Netgraph nodes.</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
+ per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
+ for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
+ device can wake the system.</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
+ be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
+ This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
+ <varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
- <para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
- from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
+ aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
- <para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
- been updated.
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
+ synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
+ <quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
- <para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
- has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
- This can be disabled by setting the tunable
- <varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
- <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+ <para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
+ has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
- <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
- in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
+ synchronous serial adapters.</para>
- <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
- handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
+ (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
+ removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
+ which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
+ driver.</para>
- <para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
- &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
- <para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
- support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
- chipset.</para>
+ <para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
+ (RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
+ It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
+ to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
- <para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
- the VIA Networking Technologies
- VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
- has been added.</para>
+ <para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
+ kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
+ this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
+ been commented out for a long time.</para>
- <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
+ now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
- <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
- has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
- the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
+ supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
+ in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
- <para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
- can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
- (&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
- &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
- now also support this capability and it can be controlled
- via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
+ <literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
+ which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
+ intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
+
+ <para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
+ the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
+ <varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
+ have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
+ debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
+ BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
+ the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
+ such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
+ receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
+ This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
+ control and output.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
+ including
+ the <devicename>asc</devicename> driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
+ the <devicename>ctx</devicename> driver for CORTEX-I Frame Grabber,
+ the <devicename>gp</devicename> driver for National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards,
+ the <devicename>gsc</devicename> driver for the Genius GS-4500 hand scanner,
+ the <devicename>le</devicename> driver for DEC EtherWORKS II and III Ethernet controllers,
+ the <devicename>rdp</devicename> driver for RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket Ethernet adapters,
+ the <devicename>spigot</devicename> driver for the Creative Labs Video Spigot video-acquisition board,
+ the <devicename>stl</devicename> and
+ <devicename>stli</devicename> drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial
+ controllers, and the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver for Archive/Wangtek cartridge tapes.
+ They are currently non-functional, and would require a considerable
+ amount of work to make them work under the new API in 5-CURRENT.
+ The userland support such as related ioctls and utilities including
+ <devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename>
+ has also been removed.</para>
+
+ <para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
+ have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
+ automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
+ major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
+ pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
+ new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
+ cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
+ require recompiling after this change.</para>
+
+ <sect4 id="mm">
+ <title>Multimedia Support</title>
+
+ <para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
+ driver has been removed due to
+ breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+
+ <para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
+ from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
+ includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
+
+ <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
+ <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
+ and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
+ The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
+ and several sound cards, has been removed.
+ More details can be found in related manual pages:
+ &man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
+ &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
+ &man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
+ &man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
+ <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
+ of default values for mixer channels.
+ Note that currently the device driver's name used in
+ <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
+ More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
+ manual page.</para>
+ </sect4>
+
+ <sect4 id="net-if">
+ <title>Network Interface Support</title>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
+ Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
+ Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
+ Open Firmware.</para>
+
+ <para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
+ reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
+ Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
+ MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
+ This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
+ standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
+ the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
+ <varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
+ on a per-device basis.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
+ to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the
+ <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
+ It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
+ <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
+ to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
+ (Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
+ driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
+ has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
+ long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
+ MTU size.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
+ TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
+ Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
+ for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
+ UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
+ This can be reactivated by setting the special link
+ option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
+ Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
+ added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
+ (LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
+ removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
+ (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
+ breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
+ for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
+ adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
+ &windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
+ the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
+ using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
+ (&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
+ and is designed principally for
+ Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
+ For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
+ &man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
+
+ <para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
+ from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
+ in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
+ handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
+ &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
+ support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
+ chipset.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
+ the VIA Networking Technologies
+ VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
+ has been added.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
+ has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
+ the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
+ can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
+ (&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
+ &man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
+ now also support this capability and it can be controlled
+ via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
+ </sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
@@ -841,6 +840,28 @@
This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to
different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
+ RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
+ a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
+ has been added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
+ Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
+ RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
+ interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
+ lines, has been added.</para>
+
+ <para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
+ behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
+ Netgraph nodes.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
+ IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
+
<para><literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> support is now always
compiled into the kernel, and the associated kernel compile
options have been removed. All of the packet filter subsystems
@@ -855,6 +876,16 @@
in RFC 1989, allows PPP to keep track of the quality
of a running connection. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
+ the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
+ interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
+ <devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
+ Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
+ <command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
+ the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
+ not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
+ <devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
+
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
@@ -901,7 +932,6 @@
2018 have been added. This improves TCP performance over
connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with
the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable</varname>.</para>
-
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@@ -934,45 +964,6 @@
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
- <para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
- Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
- which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
- has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
- 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
- ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
- &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
- A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
- ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
- 1e and 2 machines.</para>
-
- <para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="fs">
- <title>File Systems</title>
-
- <para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
- &man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
-
- <para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
- for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
- it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
- not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
- do not have the
- <literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
- in the superblock.</para>
-
<para>A bug in &man.geom.4; that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
cases has been fixed.</para>
@@ -1036,18 +1027,49 @@
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;
has been added.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
+ Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
+ which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
+ has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
+ 3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
+ ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
+ &man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
+ A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
+ ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
+ 1e and 2 machines.</para>
+
+ <para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="fs">
+ <title>File Systems</title>
+
+ <para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
+ &man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
+
+ <para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
+ for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
+ it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
+ not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
+ do not have the
+ <literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
+ in the superblock.</para>
+
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
server.</para>
- <para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
- which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
- required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
- default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
- significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
- if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
- option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
-
<para>The <literal>MSDOSFS_LARGE</literal> kernel option
has been added to support for FAT32 file systems bigger
than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It
@@ -1057,37 +1079,14 @@
with less than 1 million files and so on.
Exporting these large file systems
over NFS is not supported.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3 id="mm">
- <title>Multimedia Support</title>
-
- <para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
- driver has been removed due to
- breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
-
- <para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
- from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
- includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
-
- <para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
- <literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
- and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
- The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
- and several sound cards, has been removed.
- More details can be found in related manual pages:
- &man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
- &man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
- &man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
- &man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
- <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
- of default values for mixer channels.
- Note that currently the device driver's name used in
- <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
- More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
- manual page.</para>
+ <para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
+ which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
+ required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
+ default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
+ significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
+ if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
+ option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
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