HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Friday 16 December 2005 20:42, Mark Linimon wrote:

> And, if someone ever wants to write that 5.X vs 6.X vs 7.X feature list
> comparison, now would be a good time :-)

Well, here's a nice start (and a question or two slipped in) - dmesg diff 
between two GENERIC kernels 5 vs 6 stable of the same date, same hardware. 
Noise reduced (mem range flips on hw, 'same' entries):

-FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #3: Sun Nov 20 03:52:04 CET 2005
-    root at sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
+FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Wed Dec  7 01:36:46 CET 2005
+    root at sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org:/usr/obj/usr/current/src/sys/GENERIC
   
Features=0xa7e9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE>
+  Features2=0x180<EST,TM2>

Q: What are those extra features and are they useful? ;-)

+npx0: [FAST]
-cpu0: <ACPI CPU (4 Cx states)> on acpi0
+cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0

Q: Guessing that's a formatting difference, rather then 6.x not recognizing 
the states (sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported confirms 4 states)

-ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring
+pci_link1: BIOS IRQ 11 for 0.31.INTB is invalid

Q: Could this be midi?

+uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
+uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
+uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]

Q: Again - is this formatting or are these (and the ones below) still under 
Giant in 6.x but not in 5.x?

-pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
+ehci0: <Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller> mem 
0xf4fffc00-0xf4ffffff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0
+ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
+usb3: EHCI version 1.0
+usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
+usb3: <Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
+usb3: USB revision 2.0
+uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
+uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered

Kudos!

-atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 
0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
-ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
-ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
-pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 
0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0
-pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec>
+atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xbfa0-0xbfaf at device 31.1 on pci0
+ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
+ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
+pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)

Didn't have snd_ich_load="YES" in loader.conf yet. pcm0 appears the same and 
is GIANT-LOCKED on 6.

+atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
+psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
-Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1398819442 Hz quality 800
-Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
+Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1398819606 Hz quality 800
+Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec

Q: This is a big scarey difference :p This isn't a printf bug I presume?

-acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4241N/A100> at ata1-master PIO4
+acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4241N/A100> at ata1-master UDMA33

That's *very* nice!
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Melvyn Sopacua
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