svn commit: r41828 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 2 15:55:09 UTC 2013
Author: hrs
Date: Sun Jun 2 15:55:08 2013
New Revision: 41828
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41828
Log:
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Approved by: re (implicitly)
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head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/readme.html (contents, props changed)
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+ errata.html \
+ hardware.html \
+ installation.html \
+ readme.html \
+ relnotes-detailed.html
.include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk"
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+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<head>
+<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" />
+<title>FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata</title>
+<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79" />
+<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" />
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
+</head>
+<body class="article" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084"
+alink="#0000FF">
+<div class="ARTICLE">
+<div class="TITLEPAGE">
+<h1 class="title"><a id="AEN2" name="AEN2">FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata</a></h1>
+
+<h3 class="corpauthor">
The FreeBSD Project</h3>
+
+<p class="copyright">Copyright © 2013 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
+
+<p class="pubdate">$FreeBSD: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml
+251217 2013-06-01 10:57:25Z hrs $<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="legalnotice"><a id="trademarks" name="trademarks"></a>
+<p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.</p>
+
+<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or
+registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and
+other countries.</p>
+
+<p>SPARC, SPARC64, SPARCengine, and UltraSPARC are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc
+in the United States and other countries. SPARC International, Inc owns all of the SPARC
+trademarks and under licensing agreements allows the proper use of these trademarks by
+its members.</p>
+
+<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their
+products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and
+the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed
+by the “™” or the “®” symbol.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+</div>
+
+<blockquote class="ABSTRACT">
+<div class="abstract"><a id="AEN16" name="AEN16"></a>
+<p>This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, containing significant
+information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise
+included in the release documentation. This information includes security advisories, as
+well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or
+usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before
+installing this version of FreeBSD.</p>
+
+<p>This errata document for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE will be maintained until the EoL of
+FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE branch.</p>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<hr />
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="intro" name="intro">1 Introduction</a></h2>
+
+<p>This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD
+8.4-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to
+learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and
+fixed.</p>
+
+<p>Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for
+example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are
+kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata”
+for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"
+target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>, plus any sites which keep up-to-date
+mirrors of this location.</p>
+
+<p>Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of
+this document (as of the time of the snapshot).</p>
+
+<p>For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"
+target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/</a> or <a
+href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"
+target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/</a>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<hr />
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="security" name="security">2 Security Advisories</a></h2>
+
+<p>The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. For more
+information, consult the individual advisories available from <a
+href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p>
+
+<div class="informaltable"><a id="AEN34" name="AEN34"></a>
+<table border="0" frame="void" width="100%" class="CALSTABLE">
+<col width="20%" />
+<col width="20%" />
+<col width="60%" />
+<thead>
+<tr>
+<th>Advisory</th>
+<th>Date</th>
+<th>Topic</th>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:01.openssl</a></td>
+<td>03 May 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:02.crypt.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:02.crypt</a></td>
+<td>30 May 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>Incorrect crypt() hashing</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:03.bind.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:03.bind</a></td>
+<td>12 June 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8)</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:04.sysret</a></td>
+<td>12 June 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>Privilege escalation when returning from kernel</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:05.bind</a></td>
+<td>06 August 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:06.bind</a></td>
+<td>22 November 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:07.hostapd.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:07.hostapd</a></td>
+<td>22 November 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:08.linux.asc"
+target="_top">SA-12:08.linux</a></td>
+<td>22 November 2012</td>
+<td>
+<p>Linux compatibility layer input validation error</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:02.libc.asc"
+target="_top">SA-13:02.libc</a></td>
+<td>19 February 2013</td>
+<td>
+<p>glob(3) related resource exhaustion</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:03.openssl.asc"
+target="_top">SA-13:03.openssl</a></td>
+<td>02 April 2013</td>
+<td>
+<p>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:04.bind.asc"
+target="_top">SA-13:04.bind</a></td>
+<td>02 April 2013</td>
+<td>
+<p>BIND remote denial of service</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver.asc"
+target="_top">SA-13:05.nfsserver</a></td>
+<td>29 April 2013</td>
+<td>
+<p>Insufficient input validation in the NFS server</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<hr />
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="open-issues" name="open-issues">3 Open Issues</a></h2>
+
+<p>No open issue.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<hr />
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="late-news" name="late-news">4 Late-Breaking News and
+Corrections</a></h2>
+
+<p>No news.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be
+downloaded from <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</small></p>
+
+<p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> before contacting <<a
+href="mailto:questions at FreeBSD.org">questions at FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
+
+<p align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation, e-mail <<a
+href="mailto:doc at FreeBSD.org">doc at FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<head>
+<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" />
+<title>FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Hardware Notes</title>
+<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79" />
+<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" />
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
+</head>
+<body class="article" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084"
+alink="#0000FF">
+<div class="ARTICLE">
+<div class="TITLEPAGE">
+<h1 class="title"><a id="AEN2" name="AEN2">FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Hardware Notes</a></h1>
+
+<h3 class="corpauthor">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</h3>
+
+<p class="copyright">Copyright © 2013 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
+
+<p class="pubdate">$FreeBSD: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml
+251256 2013-06-02 15:47:22Z hrs $<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="legalnotice"><a id="trademarks" name="trademarks"></a>
+<p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.</p>
+
+<p>AMD, Am486, Am5X86, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron, AMD Opteron, AMD-K6, Athlon, Élan, Opteron,
+and PCnet are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo, LifeBook, Stylistic, PRIMEPOWER, PRIMEQUEST, PRIMECLUSTER,
+ETERNUS, TRIOLE, ESPRIMO, BioMedCAChe, CAChe, CELLINJECTOR, isS, Materials Explorer,
+SystemWalker, and Interstage are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited
+in the United States and other countries.</p>
+
+<p>IBM, AIX, EtherJet, Netfinity, OS/2, PowerPC, PS/2, S/390, and ThinkPad are trademarks
+of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or
+both.</p>
+
+<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or
+registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and
+other countries.</p>
+
+<p>SPARC, SPARC64, SPARCengine, and UltraSPARC are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc
+in the United States and other countries. SPARC International, Inc owns all of the SPARC
+trademarks and under licensing agreements allows the proper use of these trademarks by
+its members.</p>
+
+<p>Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java, Java Virtual Machine, JavaServer Pages, JDK, JRE, JSP,
+JVM, Netra, OpenJDK, Solaris, StarOffice, Sun Blade, Sun Enterprise, Sun Fire, SunOS,
+Ultra and VirtualBox are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in
+the United States and other countries.</p>
+
+<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their
+products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and
+the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed
+by the “™” or the “®” symbol.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+</div>
+
+<div class="TOC">
+<dl>
+<dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt>
+
+<dt>1 <a href="#intro">Introduction</a></dt>
+
+<dt>2 <a href="#proc">Supported Processors and System Boards</a></dt>
+
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>2.1 <a href="#proc-amd64">amd64</a></dt>
+
+<dt>2.2 <a href="#proc-i386">i386</a></dt>
+
+<dt>2.3 <a href="#proc-ia64">ia64</a></dt>
+
+<dt>2.4 <a href="#proc-pc98">pc98</a></dt>
+
+<dt>2.5 <a href="#proc-powerpc">powerpc</a></dt>
+
+<dt>2.6 <a href="#proc-sparc64">sparc64</a></dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>3 <a href="#support">Supported Devices</a></dt>
+
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>3.1 <a href="#disk">Disk Controllers</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.2 <a href="#ethernet">Ethernet Interfaces</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.3 <a href="#fddi">FDDI Interfaces</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.4 <a href="#atm">ATM Interfaces</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.5 <a href="#wlan">Wireless Network Interfaces</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.6 <a href="#misc-network">Miscellaneous Networks</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.7 <a href="#serial">Serial Interfaces</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.8 <a href="#sound">Sound Devices</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.9 <a href="#camera">Camera and Video Capture Devices</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.10 <a href="#usb">USB Devices</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.11 <a href="#firewire">IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.12 <a href="#bluetooth">Bluetooth Devices</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.13 <a href="#crypto-accel">Cryptographic Accelerators</a></dt>
+
+<dt>3.14 <a href="#misc">Miscellaneous</a></dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="intro" name="intro">1 Introduction</a></h2>
+
+<p>This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. It
+lists the hardware platforms supported by FreeBSD, as well as the various types of
+hardware devices (storage controllers, network interfaces, and so on), along with known
+working instances of these devices.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<hr />
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="proc" name="proc">2 Supported Processors and System
+Boards</a></h2>
+
+<p>This section provides some architecture-specific information about the specific
+processors and systems that are supported by each architecture.</p>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-amd64" name="proc-amd64">2.1 amd64</a></h3>
+
+<p>Since mid-2003 FreeBSD/amd64 has supported the AMD64 (“Hammer”) and
+<span class="trademark">Intel</span>® EM64T architecture, and is now one of the
+Tier-1 platforms (fully supported architecture), which are expected to be Production
+Quality with respects to all aspects of the FreeBSD operating system, including
+installation and development environments.</p>
+
+<p>Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 (AMD) and Intel EM64T
+(Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 64-bit mode of the two architectures are almost
+compatible with each other, and FreeBSD/amd64 should support them both.</p>
+
+<p>As of this writing, the following processors are supported:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">AMD Athlon</span>™64 (“Clawhammer”).</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">AMD Opteron</span>™ (“Sledgehammer”).</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>All multi-core <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span
+class="trademark">Xeon</span>™ processors except Sossaman have EM64T
+support.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>The single-core <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span
+class="trademark">Xeon</span> processors “Nocona”, “Irwindale”,
+ “Potomac”, and “Cranford” have EM64T support.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>All <span class="trademark">Intel</span> Core 2 (not Core Duo) and later
+processors</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>All <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span class="trademark">Pentium</span>® D
+processors</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> 4s and
+Celeron Ds using the “Cedar Mill” core have EM64T support.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Some <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> 4s
+and Celeron Ds using the “Prescott” core have EM64T support. See
+the <a href="http://processorfinder.intel.com" target="_top">Intel Processor Spec
+Finder</a> for the definitive answer about EM64T support in Intel processors.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> EM64T is an extended version of IA-32 (x86) and
+ different from <span class="trademark">Intel</span> IA-64 (Itanium) architecture,
+which FreeBSD/ia64 supports. Some <span class="trademark">Intel</span>'s old
+documentation refers to <span class="trademark">Intel</span> EM64T as “64-bit
+extension technology” or “IA-32e”.</p>
+
+<p>Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) configurations are
+supported.</p>
+
+<p>In many respects, FreeBSD/amd64 is similar to FreeBSD/i386, in terms of drivers
+supported. Generally, drivers that already function correctly on other 64-bit
+ platforms should work.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-i386" name="proc-i386">2.2 i386</a></h3>
+
+<p>FreeBSD/i386 runs on a wide variety of “IBM PC compatible” machines.
+Due to the wide range of hardware available for this architecture, it is impossible
+ to exhaustively list all combinations of equipment supported by FreeBSD.
+Nevertheless, some general guidelines are presented here.</p>
+
+<p>Almost all <span class="trademark">i386</span>™-compatible processors with a
+floating point unit are supported. All <span class="trademark">Intel</span>
+processors beginning with the 80486 are supported, including the 80486, <span
+class="trademark">Pentium</span>, <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> Pro, <span
+class="trademark">Pentium</span> II, <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> III, <span
+class="trademark">Pentium</span> 4, and variants thereof, such as the <span
+class="trademark">Xeon</span> and <span class="trademark">Celeron</span>® processors.
+ All <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible AMD processors are also
+supported, including the <span class="trademark">Am486</span>®, <span
+class="trademark">Am5x86</span>®, K5, <span class="trademark">AMD-K6</span>® (and
+variants), <span class="trademark">AMD Athlon</span> (including Athlon-MP,
+Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and Athlon Thunderbird), and <span
+class="trademark">AMD Duron</span>™ processors. The AMD Élan SC520 embedded
+processor is supported. The Transmeta Crusoe is recognized and supported, as are
+ <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible processors from Cyrix and NexGen.</p>
+
+<p>There is a wide variety of motherboards available for this architecture.
+Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, and PCI expansion buses are
+well-supported. There is some limited support for the MCA
+(“MicroChannel”) expansion bus used in the IBM PS/2 line of PCs.</p>
+
+<p>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally supported by FreeBSD,
+although in some cases, BIOS or motherboard bugs may generate some problems. Perusal
+of the archives of the <a
+href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp" target="_top">FreeBSD
+symmetric multiprocessing mailing list</a> may yield some clues.</p>
+
+<p>FreeBSD will take advantage of SMT (Symmetric MultiThreading, also known as
+HyperThreading on <span class="trademark">Intel</span> CPUs) on the supported CPUs.
+The <tt class="filename">GENERIC</tt> kernel which is installed by default will
+automatically detect the additional logical processors. The default FreeBSD
+scheduler recognizes processor topology on the system and selects logical and
+ physical processors to obtain optimal performance. The <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=smp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smp</span>(4)</span></a> manual
+page has more details.</p>
+
+<p>FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) support on CPUs
+that support this feature. A kernel with the <tt class="literal">PAE</tt> feature
+enabled will detect memory above 4 gigabytes and allow it to be used by the
+ system. This feature places constraints on the device drivers and other
+features of FreeBSD which may be used; consult the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pae&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pae</span>(4)</span></a> manual
+page for more details.</p>
+
+<p>FreeBSD will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with varying levels of
+support for certain hardware features such as sound, graphics, power management, and
+PCCARD expansion slots. These features tend to vary in idiosyncratic ways
+ between machines, and frequently require special-case support in FreeBSD to
+work around hardware bugs or other oddities. When in doubt, a search of the archives
+of the <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile"
+target="_top">FreeBSD laptop computer mailing list</a> may be useful.</p>
+
+<p>Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the Advanced Configuration and
+Power Management (ACPI) standard. FreeBSD supports ACPI via the ACPI Component
+Architecture reference implementation from <span class="trademark">Intel</span>, as
+described in the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> manual
+page. The use of ACPI causes instabilities on some machines and it may be necessary
+to disable the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via a kernel module. This
+may be accomplished by adding the following line to <tt
+class="filename">/boot/device.hints</tt>:</p>
+
+<pre class="programlisting">
+hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
+</pre>
+
+<p>Users debugging ACPI-related problems may find it useful to disable portions of
+the ACPI functionality. The <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> manual
+page has more information on how to do this via loader tunables.</p>
+
+<p>ACPI depends on a Differentiated System Descriptor Table (DSDT) provided by each
+machine's BIOS. Some machines have bad or incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from
+functioning correctly. Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found at the
+<a href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php" target="_top">DSDT</a> section
+of the <a href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">ACPI4Linux</a> project
+ Web site. FreeBSD can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT provided by the
+BIOS; see the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> manual
+page for more information.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-ia64" name="proc-ia64">2.3 ia64</a></h3>
+
+<p>Currently supported processors are the <a
+href="http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/refs/ia64/itanium/24532003.pdf"
+target="_top"><span class="trademark">Itanium</span>®</a> and the <a
+href="http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/refs/ia64/itanium2/25111003.pdf"
+target="_top"><span class="trademark">Itanium</span> 2</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Supported chipsets include:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>HP zx1</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> 460GX</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> E8870</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) configurations are
+supported.</p>
+
+<p>Most devices that can be found in or are compatible with ia64 machines are fully
+supported. The notable exception is the VGA console. The FreeBSD support for VGA
+ consoles is at this time too much based on PC hardware and not all ia64
+machines have chipsets that provide sufficient PC legacy support. As such <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syscons&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">syscons</span>(4)</span></a> can
+not be enabled and the use of a serial console is required.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-pc98" name="proc-pc98">2.4 pc98</a></h3>
+
+<p>NEC PC-9801/9821 series with almost all <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible
+ processors, including 80486, <span class="trademark">Pentium</span>, <span
+class="trademark">Pentium</span> Pro, <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> II, and
+variants. All <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible processors by AMD,
+Cyrix, IBM, and IDT are also supported.</p>
+
+<p>NEC FC-9801/9821 series, and NEC SV-98 series (both of them are compatible with
+PC-9801/9821 series) should be supported.</p>
+
+<p>EPSON PC-386/486/586 series, which are compatible with NEC PC-9801 series are
+supported.</p>
+
+<p>High-resolution mode is not supported. NEC PC-98XA/XL/RL/XL^2, and NEC PC-H98
+series are supported in normal (PC-9801 compatible) mode only.</p>
+
+<p>Although there are some multi-processor systems (such as Rs20/B20), SMP-related
+features of FreeBSD are not supported yet.</p>
+
+<p>PC-9801/9821 standard bus (called C-Bus), PC-9801NOTE expansion bus (110pin), and
+PCI bus are supported. New Extend Standard Architecture (NESA) bus (used in PC-H98,
+SV-H98, and FC-H98 series) is not supported.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-powerpc" name="proc-powerpc">2.5 powerpc</a></h3>
+
+<p>The information for this paragraph has yet to be compiled.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-sparc64" name="proc-sparc64">2.6 sparc64</a></h3>
+
+<p>This section describes the systems currently known to be supported by FreeBSD on
+the Fujitsu <span class="trademark">SPARC64</span>® and Sun <span
+class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span>® platforms. For background information
+on the various hardware designs see the <a
+href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/" target="_top">Sun System
+Handbook</a>.</p>
+
+<p>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.</p>
+
+<p>When using the <tt class="filename">GENERIC</tt> kernel, FreeBSD/sparc64 systems
+not equipped with a framebuffer supported by the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=creator&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">creator</span>(4)</span></a> (Sun
+Creator, Sun Creator3D and Sun Elite3D) or <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=machfb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">machfb</span>(4)</span></a> (Sun
+PGX and Sun PGX64 as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example
+ <span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span>™ 100, <span
+class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 150, Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span>™
+5 and Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 10) driver must use the serial
+console.</p>
+
+<p>If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not have been tested with
+FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. We encourage you to try it and send a note to the <a
+href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64" target="_top">FreeBSD
+SPARC porting mailing list</a> with your results, including which devices work and
+which do not.</p>
+
+<p>The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>Naturetech GENIALstation 777S</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 100</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 150</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span>™ 150</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 220R</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 250</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 420R</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 450</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span>™ B100s (support for the on-board NICs
+first appeared in 8.1-RELEASE)</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V100</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V120</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span>™ t1 100/105</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> T1 AC200/DC200</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1100</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1120</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1125</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1400/1405</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> 120</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> X1</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span>® Ultra AX1105</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> Ultra AXe</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> Ultra AXi</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> Ultra AXmp</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> CP1500</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 1</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 1E</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 2</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 5</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 10</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 30</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 60</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 80</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 450</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In particular the fiber
+channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not supported. However, it is possible
+to use these with a SCSI controller supported by the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=esp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">esp</span>(4)</span></a> driver
+(Sun ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 3500</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 4500</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Sun <span
+class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which
+includes the following known working systems:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 1000</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 1500</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 2000</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 2500</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> 280R</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V210</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE
+and 8.1-RELEASE)</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V240</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE
+and 8.1-RELEASE)</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V250</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V440 (support for the on-board NICs first
+ appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only,
+for which support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, other
+centerplanes might work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V880</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE
+and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed <span class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> IV/IV+
+CPU-configurations only)</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Netra</span> 20/<span class="trademark">Netra</span> T4</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The following Sun <span class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> systems are not tested but
+ believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V125</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE
+and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed <span class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> IV/IV+
+CPU-configurations only)</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Fujitsu <span
+class="trademark">SPARC64</span> V are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the
+following known working systems:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span>® 250</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The following Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> systems are not tested
+but believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> 450</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> 650</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> 850</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect1">
+<hr />
+<h2 class="sect1"><a id="support" name="support">3 Supported Devices</a></h2>
+
+<p>This section describes the devices currently known to be supported by FreeBSD. Other
+configurations may also work, but simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and
+corrections to this list are encouraged.</p>
+
+<p>Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class of devices is listed.
+If the driver in question has a manual page in the FreeBSD base distribution (most
+should), it is referenced here. Information on specific models of supported devices,
+controllers, etc. can be found in the manual pages.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+<blockquote class="note">
+<p><b>Note:</b> The device lists in this document are being generated automatically
+from FreeBSD manual pages. This means that some devices, which are supported by
+multiple drivers, may appear multiple times.</p>
+</blockquote>
+</div>
+
+<div class="sect2">
+<hr />
+<h3 class="sect2"><a id="disk" name="disk">3.1 Disk Controllers</a></h3>
+
+<p>[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64] IDE/ATA controllers (<a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ata</span>(4)</span></a>
+ driver)</p>
+
+<p>[pc98] IDE/ATA controllers (wdc driver)</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>On-board IDE controller</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>[i386,ia64,amd64] Controllers supported by the <a
+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">
+<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">aac</span>(4)</span></a> driver
+include:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>Adaptec AAC-364</p>
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