From c8d07e7f11a453384e7bf215650a0d76b180d7dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hiroki Sato Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:34:40 +0000 Subject: New release notes: 32MB memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges, pbio(4), and vge(4) polling support. MFC: IPv6 MTU feedback disabled. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index fe6eaf8f5cbe..0d2e2498e64d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ notably &man.mac.biba.4;, &man.mac.mls.4;, &man.mac.stub.4;, and &man.mac.test.4;. + Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has + been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges + only allow allocation from this range and this only applies + to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS. + This change fixes the bad Vcc error of CardBus + bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged; + @@ -180,7 +187,7 @@ Hardware Support - + The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus &ultrasparc; models. &merged; @@ -200,6 +207,11 @@ The pcii driver has been added to support GPIB-PCIIA IEEE-488 cards. + The &man.pbio.4; driver, + which supports direct access to + the Intel 8255A programmable peripheral interface (PPI) + chip running in mode 0 (simple I/O) has been added. + The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra @@ -281,6 +293,9 @@ This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based interfaces. &merged; + The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling + (&man.polling.4;). + Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes, it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, @@ -297,7 +312,7 @@ Network Protocols The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes - data that must be fragmented. + data that must be fragmented. &merged; &man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket, @@ -377,7 +392,7 @@ &man.libautofs.3; have been added. A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More - details can be found in errata note + details can be found in errata note FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs. &merged; diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index fe6eaf8f5cbe..0d2e2498e64d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ notably &man.mac.biba.4;, &man.mac.mls.4;, &man.mac.stub.4;, and &man.mac.test.4;. + Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has + been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges + only allow allocation from this range and this only applies + to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS. + This change fixes the bad Vcc error of CardBus + bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged; + @@ -180,7 +187,7 @@ Hardware Support - + The &man.auxio.4; driver has been to drive some auxiliary I/O functions found on various SBus/EBus &ultrasparc; models. &merged; @@ -200,6 +207,11 @@ The pcii driver has been added to support GPIB-PCIIA IEEE-488 cards. + The &man.pbio.4; driver, + which supports direct access to + the Intel 8255A programmable peripheral interface (PPI) + chip running in mode 0 (simple I/O) has been added. + The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra @@ -281,6 +293,9 @@ This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based interfaces. &merged; + The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling + (&man.polling.4;). + Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes, it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, @@ -297,7 +312,7 @@ Network Protocols The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes - data that must be fragmented. + data that must be fragmented. &merged; &man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket, @@ -377,7 +392,7 @@ &man.libautofs.3; have been added. A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More - details can be found in errata note + details can be found in errata note FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs. &merged; -- cgit v1.3