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authorMarius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>2007-10-24 20:51:44 +0000
committerMarius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>2007-10-24 20:51:44 +0000
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@@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
+20071024:
+ It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
+ backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
+ PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
+ broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
+ 20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
+ PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
+ provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
+ IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
+ again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
+ nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
+ however.
+
20071020:
The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already