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authorPeter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>1998-03-26 15:24:52 +0000
committerPeter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>1998-03-26 15:24:52 +0000
commita320c4932b97adef18643a20d51accd281bf8a0b (patch)
treea1482f6f54d9cd9cc0e48e7d848ec4eaa4db8887 /release/sysinstall/help
parent0aac22672f2accd1a8271ee76e6d80c651f9a14a (diff)
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'release/sysinstall/help')
-rw-r--r--release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp5
-rw-r--r--release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp
index 46026a18847a..28803125eaa1 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp
+++ b/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ rc: RISCom/8 multiport card
sb: SoundBlaster PCM - SoundBlaster, SB Pro, SB16, ProAudioSpectrum
sbmidi: SoundBlaster 16 MIDI interface
sbxvi: SoundBlaster 16
+si: Specialix SI/XIO/SX (old and enhanced ISA, PCI, EISA) serial
spigot: Creative Labs Video Spigot video-acquisition board
uart: Stand-alone 6850 UART for MIDI
wds: Western Digital WD7000 IDE
@@ -446,6 +447,10 @@ STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
+Specialix SI/XIO/SX multiport serial cards, with both the older
+SIHOST2.x and the new "enhanced" (transputer based, aka JET) host cards.
+ISA, EISA and PCI are supported.
+
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp
index ee9d74b8c8e3..cc1c602345af 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp
+++ b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ o The psm, mse and sysmouse drivers are improved to provide
that the user is no longer required to supply a mouse protocol
type on the command line.
+o The Specialix multiport serial driver has had a facelift in
+ an attempt to support the newer module types and host cards.
+ It should support ISA, EISA and PCI now. Thanks to Nick Sayer
+ of Specialix for providing patches for integration.
+
Userland features:
o popen() library call now uses and offers bidirectional pipes.