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| author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-07-20 15:48:02 +0000 |
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| committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-07-20 15:48:02 +0000 |
| commit | fcbc18ed979a9e690e88b07c8dba4cd1f4f1cc5d (patch) | |
| tree | b83e814b8f45a642b5e08d0a29eced8c1ad96ed1 /release | |
| parent | 9adf8173c285ed87519bc3c52de307e10928c875 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-fcbc18ed979a9e690e88b07c8dba4cd1f4f1cc5d.zip FreeBSD-src-fcbc18ed979a9e690e88b07c8dba4cd1f4f1cc5d.tar.gz | |
New release notes:
ixgb (no manpage)
ISDN4BSD, ng_h4, and netatm disconnected
Modified release note:
ULE (3.0)
Approved by: re (implicitly)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 22 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 0e105d5..c2a52d5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -416,9 +416,14 @@ performance improvements.</para> <para>The ULE process scheduler has been revised to improve its - behavior, in particular interactivity under load. This - implementation can commonly be referred to as <quote>ULE - 2.0</quote>.</para> + behavior, in particular interactivity under load, for both + uniprocessor and multiprocessor machines. This + implementation has commonly been referred to as <quote>ULE + 3.0</quote>. (ULE 3.0 was formerly known as SCHED_SMP, + which in turn was based on version 2.0 of the ULE scheduler. + ULE 2.0 was never a part of any &os; release, however it + was the subject of many development, testing, and + benchmarking efforts.)</para> <para>The <literal>SIGCHLD</literal> signal queuing has been added. For each child process whose status has been changed, @@ -836,6 +841,9 @@ <filename role="package">net/iwi-firmware</filename> port/package. &merged;</para> + <para>The ixgbe driver, which supports the Intel 10G PCI-Express + adapter (82598), has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs, has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these @@ -938,6 +946,14 @@ cards, as well as quarter- and half-channel support for 802.11a. &merged;</para> + <para>ISDN4BSD, &man.ng.h4.4;, and netatm have been temporarily + disconnected from the build. These modules all require + the Giant kernel lock for their operation; disconnecting + them allows the removal of the NET_NEEDS_GIANT compatability + shim and allows the &os; network stack to run completely + without the Giant kernel lock. It is planned to convert + these modules to fine-grained kernel locking and re-connect + them for &os; 7.1-RELEASE.</para> </sect4> </sect3> |
