svn commit: r260928 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 20 21:50:01 UTC 2014
Author: gjb
Date: Mon Jan 20 21:50:00 2014
New Revision: 260928
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260928
Log:
Remove entries that:
- exist in a release [1]
- do not have a corresponding revision class
[1] This is done to make ensure for 11.0-RELEASE, we do not end
up with entries from older releases, like happened with 10.0-R.
Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Jan 20 21:49:59 2014 (r260927)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Jan 20 21:50:00 2014 (r260928)
@@ -104,132 +104,28 @@
<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
- <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers
- eliminates the need to perform TLB shootdown for mapping on
- buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount of IPIs
- for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
- of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory
- the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to
- 4TB.</para>
-
- <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an
- output capture facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can
- now be captured to a memory buffer for later inspection using
- &man.sysctl.8; or a textdump. The new
- <command>capture</command> command controls this feature.</para>
-
- <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple
- scripting facility, which supports a set of named scripts
- consisting of a set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can
- be managed from within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new
- &man.ddb.8; utility. More details can be found in the
- &man.ddb.4; manual page.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for
- the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number generator,
- found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, accessible with
- RDRAND instruction.</para>
+ <para> </para>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization support</title>
- <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor,
- &man.bhyve.8; is included with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires
- Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) support.
- These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g.
- Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
-
- <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added.
- &man.virtio.4; is the name for the paravirtualization
- interface developed for the Linux KVM, but since adopted to
- other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception
- of Xen). This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room
- implementation of the virtio kernel drivers for disk IO
- (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO
- (&man.vtnet.4;), memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;),
- and PCI. Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and
- &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized
- drivers which support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and
- made part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these
- drivers are not part of GENERIC, so the following lines must
- be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load
- these drivers:</para>
-
- <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES"
-hv_netsvc_load="YES"
-hv_utils_load="YES"
-hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>
-
- <para>Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the
- i386 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the
- kernel config, and then recompiling the kernel. Please refer
- to: <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD
- and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> for full
- instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under
- FreeBSD.</para>
-
- <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added.
- &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
- OpenBSD.</para>
-
- <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM
- virtualization is now part of the GENERIC kernel.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
<title>ARM support</title>
- <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added.
- Refer to these <link
- xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup
- instructions</link> and <link
- xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick
- start guide</link>.</para>
-
- <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM
- EABI. This brings a number of improvements and allows future
- support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para>
-
- <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved,
- including support for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local
- storage (TLS). Additionally support for some newer SoC like
- the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. See <link
- xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this
- announcement</link> for further details.</para>
-
- <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been
- added. Superpages support provides improved performance and
- scalability by allowing TLB translations to dynamically cover
- large physical memory regions. All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based
- platforms can take advantage of this feature. See <link
- xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this
- page</link> for further details.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
- <!--
<sect3 xml:id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the
- boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
- mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
- devices.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader
- has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk.
- A new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
- &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
- required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
- partition if required.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
- -->
<sect3 xml:id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
@@ -237,168 +133,42 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting>
<sect4 xml:id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB
- Audio reference design has been added. New devices should
- support higher bandwidth, increased sampling frequency and
- wider dynamic range.</para>
+ <para> </para>
+
</sect4>
<sect4 xml:id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been
- 1.4.55.</para>
+ <para> </para>
- <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
- number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL)
- support.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
- number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all
- architectures.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver
- has been updated to include a number of stability
- fixes.</para>
-
- <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been
- updated to support 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's
- Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para>
-
- <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added.
- This is an experimental iWARP/RDMA driver (kernel verbs
- only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para>
-
- <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise
- Distribution (OFED) and OFED Infiniband core has been
- updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version
- 3.7</para>
-
- <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has
- been updated to firmware version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3
- NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where
- each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40
- GB/s. Support has been added for dynamically loading kernel
- modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and IP over Infiniband
- (ipoib).</para>
-
- <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added.
- &man.netmap.4; is a framework for high-performance
- direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high
- PPS rates to userland applications while bypassing any
- kernel-side packet processing. With &man.netmap.4; it is
- trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network
- interface with minimal packet sizes. For more information,
- see: <link
- xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap
- Project</link>.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make
- addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such
- as quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
- address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
- &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel
- interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. Configuration
- of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well
- as format of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has
- changed. See &man.carp.4; for more information. The arpbalance
- feature of &man.carp.4; is currently not supported
- anymore.</para>
-
- <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports
- fine-grain locking and better utilization on multi-cpu
- machines resulting in significant improvements in
- performance.</para>
-
- <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables
- has been introduced.</para>
-
- <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching
- differentiated services codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has
- been added to &man.ipfw.8;.</para>
+ <para> </para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
- <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes
- larger than 2TB in size.</para>
+ <para> </para>
- <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for
- disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
- have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
- until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now
- supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure
- this feature.</para>
-
- <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to
- version 1.2 from Highpoint.</para>
-
- <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides
- NVM Express support. NVM Express is an optimized register
- interface, command set and feature set of PCI Express
- (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information,
- see <link
- xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
- <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and
- initiator has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with
- &man.growfs.8; while mounted read-write. This is especially
- useful for virtual machines, allowing the addition of more
- harddrive space without interruption of service.</para>
-
- <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation
- is now part of the base system. It allows the use of nearly
- all fusefs file systems.</para>
+ <para> </para>
<sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
<title>ZFS</title>
- <para revision="256361">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports
- installing ZFS on the root file system. It includes
- a single configuration menu that allows you to select all of
- the required details, including which drives to use, what
- ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration the
- selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption,
- forcing 4K sectors, pool name, etc.</para>
-
- <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for
- ZFS.</para>
-
- <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4
- compression algorithm has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually
- faster and can achieve a higher compression ratio than LZJB,
- the default compression algorithm.</para>
-
- <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been
- added to ZFS.</para>
-
- <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from
- Illumos was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write
- skips overwriting data if the checksum (cryptographically
- secure) of new data matches the checksum of existing data.
- It also saves space if snapshots are in use. This
- improvement only works only on datasets with enabled
- compression, disabled deduplication and sha256
- checksums.</para>
-
- <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to
- the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing
- any write I/O for data that has not changed. This will
- reduce I/O as well as space usage because if the old block
- is referenced by a snapshot, both copies of the block are
- kept even though both contain the same data.</para>
+ <para> </para>
+
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>
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