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Date:      Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:14:07 GMT
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 4cb0d41c5486 - main - RELNOTES: Add an entry for the new QAT driver
Message-ID:  <202207271514.26RFE7TF032582@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by markj:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4cb0d41c5486ddcc90e5867f4524e3c0ccd2f2b0

commit 4cb0d41c5486ddcc90e5867f4524e3c0ccd2f2b0
Author:     Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-07-21 15:07:11 +0000
Commit:     Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-07-27 15:13:20 +0000

    RELNOTES: Add an entry for the new QAT driver
    
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
---
 RELNOTES | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 4b7b56f39f61..19a0867073bc 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+78ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
+	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
+	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
+	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
+
+	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
+	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
+	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
+	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
+	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
+
 da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
 	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
 	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are



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