Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:09:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r199849 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <200911262209.nAQM9bGA094354@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Thu Nov 26 22:09:37 2009 New Revision: 199849 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199849 Log: More items: - U-Boot support library for loader(8) (ARM, PowerPC) - multiprocessor (SMP) (PowerPC) - E500 (Book-E) embedded CPU support (PowerPC) - Freescale PowerQUICCIII MPC85xx system-on-chip support (single- and dual-core) (PowerPC) - Feroceon, Sheeva embedded CPU support - Marvell Orion (88F5281), Kirkwood (88F6281) and Discovery Innovation (MV-78100) systems-on-chip support (ARM) - DS133x and DS1553 RTC support - tsec(4) Gigabit Ethernet driver - mge(4) Gigabit Ethernet driver - kernel core dump support (PowerPC) - mini dump support (ARM) - gdbserver(1) support for (ARM, PowerPC) Submitted by: raj Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Thu Nov 26 21:14:09 2009 (r199848) +++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Thu Nov 26 22:09:37 2009 (r199849) @@ -448,6 +448,12 @@ epair0b: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING <filename>emulators/linux_base-f10</filename> (Fedora 10).</para> + <para role="8.0" arch="arm">The &os;/&arch.arm; now + supports mini dump.</para> + + <para role="8.0" arch="powerpc">The &os;/&arch.powerpc; now + supports kernel core dump.</para> + <para role="8.0" arch="amd64,i386">The &os; virtual memory subsystem now supports fully transparent use of <application>superpages</application> for application memory; @@ -603,6 +609,9 @@ epair0b: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING <para role="8.0">The &man.boot0cfg.8; utility now supports a new <option>-i</option> option to set the volume ID.</para> + <para role="8.0" arch="arm,powerpc">The &man.loader.8; now + supports U-Boot support library.</para> + <para role="7.2">The &man.boot.8; now supports 4-byte volume ID that certain versions of &windows; put into the MBR and invoking PXE by pressing the F6 key on some supported BIOSes.</para> @@ -638,6 +647,23 @@ epair0b: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING <para role="8.0">The &os; now includes experimental support for &arch.mips; platform.</para> + <para role="8.0">Support for RTC on Dallas Semiconductor chips + has been improved. The DS133x and DS1553 are now + supported.</para> + + <para role="8.0" arch="arm">The &os;/&arch.arm; now supports + Feroceon and Sheeva embedded CPU, Marvell Orion (88F5281), + Kirkwood (88F6281), Discovery Innovation (MV-78100) + systems-on-chip CPU.</para> + + <para role="8.0" arch="powerpc">The &os;/&arch.powerpc; now + supports SMP machines</para> + + <para role="8.0" arch="powerpc">The &os;/&arch.powerpc; now + supports E500 (Book-E) embedded CPU and Freescale + PowerQUICCIII MPC85xx system-on-chip (including single and + dual-core).</para> + <para role="8.0">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem now supports the System Resource Affinity Table (SRAT) used to describe affinity relationships between CPUs and memory, ACPI 3.0 fields in @@ -885,6 +911,12 @@ epair0b: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING </listitem> </itemizedlist> + <para role="8.0" arch="arm,powerpc">The mge(4) driver has + been added to provide support for Marvell Gigabit Ethernet + controllers found on ARM-based SOCs (Orion, Kirkwood, + Discovery), as well as on system controllers for PowerPC + processors (MV64430, MV6446x).</para> + <para role="8.0">The &man.miibus.4; driver now supports the Marvell 88E3016.</para> @@ -903,6 +935,11 @@ epair0b: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING <para role="8.0">The &man.nge.4; driver has been improved and now works on all platforms.</para> + <para role="8.0">The tsec(4) driver has been added to + provide support for Freescale integrated Three-Speed + Ethernet Controller (TSEC). This driver also works with + the enhanced version of the controller (eTSEC).</para> + <para role="8.0">The &man.uath.4; driver for USB wireless LAN adapter based on Atheros AR5005UG and AR5005UX chipsets has been added. The &man.uathload.8; utility, a firmware @@ -1736,6 +1773,9 @@ options NFSD # for NFS server</programli generate a new directory name for use by the backup. This is enabled by default.</para> + <para role="8.0">The &man.gdbserver.1; now supports &arch.arm; + and &arch.powerpc; platforms.</para> + <para role="8.0">The &man.gpt.8; program has been removed in favor of &man.gpart.8;.</para>
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