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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 33cd73e..94305a6 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -120,25 +120,6 @@ <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included - with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) - 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,i386" revision="255524">A paravirtualized driver named "hyperv" which - which supports Microsoft Hyper-V has been imported and made - part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, this driver is not part of - GENERIC, so <literal>hyperv_load="YES"</literal> must be added to - <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load the driver.</para> - <para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> @@ -191,6 +172,33 @@ scheduler is now the default process scheduler in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para> + <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> + <title>Virtualization support</title> + <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included + with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) + 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,i386" revision="255524">A paravirtualized driver named "hyperv" which + which supports Microsoft Hyper-V has been imported and made + part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, this driver is not part of + GENERIC, so <literal>hyperv_load="YES"</literal> must be added to + <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load the driver.</para> + + <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. + &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from + OpenBSD.</para> + + </sect3> + <sect3 xml:id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -267,10 +275,6 @@ <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> - <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. - &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from - OpenBSD.</para> - <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> |