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author | Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-06-18 10:48:00 +0000 |
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committer | Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-06-18 10:48:00 +0000 |
commit | 4a58eccc5b962073f60781892a69f2f54d503709 (patch) | |
tree | a4f2bc78ec1a53b1a85866f2a14817b922854140 /UPDATING | |
parent | bb3c45bf86e439c1fc72e90ceb7a97fe230f3b96 (diff) | |
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@@ -52,6 +52,18 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW: 20110513: Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped +20110503: + Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer, + the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4). + This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet + drivers need to be recompiled. + + Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem + was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs, + i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific + handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous + branches. + 20110430: Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci' into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'. |