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authorGlen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2014-05-07 12:45:31 +0000
committerGlen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2014-05-07 12:45:31 +0000
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@@ -104,17 +104,12 @@
<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
- <para revision="265236">The &man.mpr.4; device has been added,
- providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
- controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel
+ configuration file has been added, which enables the new
+ <literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para>
- <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
- and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
- Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided only
- the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device, returning
- <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As this device is
- not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version has been
- added.</para>
+ <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
+ &man.uhso.4;.</para>
<para revision="264601">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal>
device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G
@@ -125,24 +120,28 @@
the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.</para>
</note>
- <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
- &man.uhso.4;.</para>
+ <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
+ and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
+ Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided only
+ the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device, returning
+ <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As this device is
+ not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version has been
+ added.</para>
- <para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel
- configuration file has been added, which enables the new
- <literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para>
+ <para revision="265236">The &man.mpr.4; device has been added,
+ providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
+ controllers.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization support</title>
- <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
- been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
-
- <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
- &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
- &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
+ <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt
+ Delivery</quote> feature of &intel;&nbsp;VT-x is enabled if
+ supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running
+ <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>.
+ Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add
+ <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to
+ <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
<para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt
Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This
@@ -152,13 +151,14 @@
<literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to
<filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
- <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt
- Delivery</quote> feature of &intel;&nbsp;VT-x is enabled if
- supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running
- <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>.
- Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add
- <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to
- <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
+ <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
+ &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
+ &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
+ been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
@@ -186,25 +186,25 @@
<sect4 xml:id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para revision="265348">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been
- updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel;
- Centrino&trade; Wireless-N 105 devices has been added
- to the base system.</para>
+ <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets
+ BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has
+ been added to &man.bge.4;.</para>
<para revision="260448">Support for the &intel;
Centrino&trade; Wireless-N 135 chipset has been
added.</para>
- <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets
- BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has
- been added to &man.bge.4;.</para>
+ <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel;
+ Centrino&trade; Wireless-N 105 devices has been added
+ to the base system.</para>
<para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been
removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are
advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been
the default driver for this hardware since &os; 7.0.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265348">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been
+ updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
@@ -238,25 +238,14 @@
<sect2 xml:id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
- to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
- &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
- updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
- filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
- Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
- <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
- host system.</para>
-
- <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices
- via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
+ <para revision="258838">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been added,
+ which provides access to functionality that is not available in
+ the <quote>capability mode</quote> sandbox.</para>
- <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has
- been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the
- system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
- device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
- to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
+ <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
+ &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
+ &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
+ <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
<para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by their
@@ -265,14 +254,14 @@
to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
device.</para>
- <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
- &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
- &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
- <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
+ <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has
+ been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the
+ system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
+ device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
+ to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
- <para revision="258838">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been added,
- which provides access to functionality that is not available in
- the <quote>capability mode</quote> sandbox.</para>
+ <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices
+ via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
<para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious
network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop
@@ -281,6 +270,17 @@
<para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under
bhyve.</para>
+ <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
+ updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
+ filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
+ Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
+ <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
+ host system.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
+ to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
+ &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
+
<sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
@@ -291,14 +291,14 @@
<sect2 xml:id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to version
- 20140101.</para>
+ <para revision="258884">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to upstream
+ snapshot version r196259.</para>
<para revision="259626">Timezone data files have been updated to
version 2013i.</para>
- <para revision="258884">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to upstream
- snapshot version r196259.</para>
+ <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to version
+ 20140101.</para>
<para revision="261037"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
been updated to version 1.0.1.f.</para>
@@ -309,15 +309,15 @@
<para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been
updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.8.</para>
- <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
- been updated to 6.5p1.</para>
-
<para revision="261212"><application>bmake</application> has been
updated to version 20140101.</para>
<para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has been
updated to version 3.4.</para>
+ <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
+ been updated to 6.5p1.</para>
+
<para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has been
updated to version 1.12.3.</para>