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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 e8913e0..569739c 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -120,11 +120,6 @@ <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. - Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link> - and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start - guide</link>.</para> - <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% @@ -215,6 +210,32 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be </sect3> + <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> + <title>ARM support</title> + + <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. + Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link> + and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start + guide</link>.</para> + + <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of + improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> + + <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support + for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS). + Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. + See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link> + for further details.</para> + + <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support + provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB + translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions. + All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature. + See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link> + for further details.</para> + + </sect3> + <sect3 xml:id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> |