From 5c5b646ba3bba0b94a6001c75b52d667f252cd32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rodrigc Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 07:58:46 +0000 Subject: Add notes for ARM. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'release') 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 @@ Kernel Changes - Raspberry PI support has been added. - Refer to these setup instructions - and quick start - guide. - 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" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be + + ARM support + + Raspberry PI support has been added. + Refer to these setup instructions + and quick start + guide. + + 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. + + 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 this announcement + for further details. + + 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 this page + for further details. + + + Boot Loader Changes -- cgit v1.1