Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:07:50 +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: r218977 - in stable/8/release/doc: en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes share/sgml Message-ID: <201102231907.p1NJ7od7004290@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Wed Feb 23 19:07:50 2011 New Revision: 218977 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218977 Log: Import and update relnotes items for 8.2R: fix SA table's cell width[1], alq(4) improvement in details, TCP reassembly improved[2], xz rewording[3], and various grammer fixes[4]. Suggested by: dougb[1], keramida[1], lstewart[2], mm[3], mandree[4]. Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml stable/8/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl stable/8/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Feb 23 18:22:40 2011 (r218976) +++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Feb 23 19:07:50 2011 (r218977) @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate> <copyright> - <year>2010</year> + <year>2011</year> <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> </copyright> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ advisories available from <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/"></ulink>.</para>; - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> + <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1"> <tgroup cols="3"> <colspec colwidth="1*"> <colspec colwidth="1*"> @@ -132,64 +132,24 @@ <tbody> <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl.asc" - >SA-09:15.ssl</ulink></entry> - <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry> - <entry><para>SSL protocol flaw</para></entry> + <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc" + >SA-10:08.bzip2</ulink></entry> + <entry>20 September 2010</entry> + <entry><para>Integer overflow in bzip2 decompression</para></entry> </row> +<!-- XXX: not for 8.2 <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld.asc" - >SA-09:16.rtld</ulink></entry> - <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry> - <entry><para>Improper environment sanitization in &man.rtld.1;</para></entry> + <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:09.pseudofs.asc" + >SA-10:09.pseudofs</ulink></entry> + <entry>10 October 2010</entry> + <entry><para>Spurious mutex unlock</para></entry> </row> +--> <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc" - >SA-09:17.freebsd-update</ulink></entry> - <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry> - <entry><para>Inappropriate directory permissions in &man.freebsd-update.8;</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:01.bind.asc" - >SA-10:01.bind</ulink></entry> - <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry> - <entry><para>BIND &man.named.8; cache poisoning with DNSSEC validation</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:02.ntpd.asc" - >SA-10:02.ntpd</ulink></entry> - <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry> - <entry><para>ntpd mode 7 denial of service</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs.asc" - >SA-10:03.zfs</ulink></entry> - <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry> - <entry><para>ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail.asc" - >SA-10:04.jail</ulink></entry> - <entry>27 May 2010</entry> - <entry><para>Insufficient environment sanitization in &man.jail.8;</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie.asc" - >SA-10:05.opie</ulink></entry> - <entry>27 May 2010</entry> - <entry><para>OPIE off-by-one stack overflow</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient.asc" - >SA-10:06.nfsclient</ulink></entry> - <entry>27 May 2010</entry> - <entry><para>Unvalidated input in nfsclient</para></entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf.asc" - >SA-10:07.mbuf</ulink></entry> - <entry>13 July 2010</entry> - <entry><para>Lost mbuf flag resulting in data corruption</para></entry> + <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:10.openssl.asc" + >SA-10:10.openssl</ulink></entry> + <entry>29 November 2010</entry> + <entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> @@ -199,1266 +159,1026 @@ <sect2 id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger has been improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show - ifnets</command> and <command>show ifnet <replaceable>struct - ifnet *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of - <quote>ifnet *</quote> of each virtual network stack and - fields of specified <varname>fip</varname>, - respectively.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show all - lltables</command>, <command>show lltable - <replaceable>struct lltable *</replaceable></command>, and - <command>show llentry <replaceable>struct llentry - *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of - <quote>lltable *</quote> of each virtual network stack, - fields of specified structures respectively.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The <command>show mount</command> command now prints - active string mount options.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show - vnetrcrs</command> command to dump the whole log of - distinctive <varname>curvnet</varname> recursion - events.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>It now supports <command>show - vnet_sysinit</command> and <command>show - vnet_unsysinit</command> commands to print - ordered call lists.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>A new kernel thread called <quote>deadlock - resolver</quote> has been added. This can be used to detect - possible deadlock by using information of thread state and - heuristic analysis. This is not enabled by default. To - enable this, an option <option>option DEADLKRES</option> in - kernel configuration file and recompilation of the - kernel.</para> - - <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256 - of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para> - - <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added - to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><varname>F_READAHEAD</varname> specifies the amount - for sequential access. The amount is specified in bytes and is - rounded up to nearest block size.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><varname>F_RDAHEAD</varname> is a Darwin compatible - version that use 128KB as the sequential access - size.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>Note that the read-ahead amount is also limited by - sysctl variable <varname>vfs.read_max</varname>, which may - need to be raised in order to better utilize this - feature.</para> - - <para>The &man.lindev.4; driver has been added. This is for - supporting various Linux-specific pseudo devices such as - <filename>/dev/full</filename>. Note that this is not - included in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para>A POSIX function pselect(3) has been reimplemented as a - system call &man.pselect.2; to eliminate race - condition.</para> - - <para>A kernel option <option>option - INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE</option> has been added to - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the - timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the - wakeup has been fixed.</para> - - <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has - been fixed.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented - process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly - has been fixed.</para> - - <para>New SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) probes such as ones - for <literal>opencrypto</literal> and <literal>vnet</literal> - have been added to &os; &man.dtrace.1; subsystem.</para> - - <para arch="powerpc">&os; now supports SMP in PowerPC G5 - systems. Note that SMP support on &os;/&arch.powerpc; is - disabled by default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> - kernel.</para> - - <para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and - SPARC64 V CPUs.</para> - - <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver has been improved. The history - buffer can be fully saved/restored in the VESA mode switching - via a loader tunable - <varname>hint.sc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.vesa_mode</varname>.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that - <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This - affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386">An x86 real mode emulator based on - OpenBSD's x86emu implementation has been added to improve real - mode BIOS call support on both &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64;. - The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.dpms.4;, vesa(4), &man.vga.4; driver - now use this emulator and work on the both platforms.</para> - - <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; virtualization container can work - with &man.sctp.4; now. Note that the VIMAGE is not enabled by - default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; now supports - <varname>ip4.saddrsel</varname>, - <varname>ip4.nosaddrsel</varname>, - <varname>ip6.saddrsel</varname>, and - <varname>ip6.nosaddrsel</varname> to control whether to use - source address selection or the primary jail address for - unbound outgoing connections. The default value is to use - source address selection.</para> + <para arch="ia64" revision="209326">The maximum number of pages + used for DMA bounce buffer pool has been increased from 256 to + 1024.</para> + + <para arch="powerpc" revision="209765">The default value of + <varname>kern.hz</varname> has been increased from 100 to + 1000.</para> + + <para arch="powerpc" revision="209767">The SMP kernel now works on + MPC7400-based Apple desktop machines such as + PowerMac3,3.</para> + + <para arch="powerpc" revision="211593">&os;/powerpc now supports + DMA bounce buffer which is required on systems with larger RAM + than 4GB.</para> + + <para arch="mips" revision="215938">&os;/mips support has been + improved. It now supports SMP on a SWARM with a dual-core + Sibyte processor.</para> + + <para arch="mips">&os;/mips now supports Netlogic Microsystems' + XLR and XLS multi-core processor families.</para> + + <para arch="sparc64" revision="215598">&os;/sparc64 now supports + reservation-based physical memory allocation which provides + better performance.</para> + + <para arch="amd64" revision="214620">&os;/amd64 now always sets + the KVA space as equal to or larger than physical memory size. + The default size was calculated based on one-third of the + physical memory size by a code derived from one for i386. It + has been changed because constraints for memory space are not + severe on amd64 and this change would help to prevent a + <quote>kmem_map too small</quote> panic which often occurs + when using ZFS.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214621">CPU topology detection + for Intel CPUs has been improved.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">ACPI suspend/resume + functionality support has been improved.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">&os; kernel now + supports <function>kern_fpu_enter()</function> and + <function>kern_fpu_leave()</function> KPIs which allow the + kernel subsystems to use XMM register files used in Intel SSE + (Streaming SIMD Extensions).</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215006">The &man.acpi.4; + driver now uses ACPI Reset Register capability by default only + when a flag in the FADT which indicates it is available. This + behavior was controlled by a &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>hw.acpi.handle_reboot</varname> and the default value + was always set to <literal>0</literal>.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215521">The &man.acpi.4; + driver now supports new loader tunables + <varname>hw.acpi.install_interface</varname> and + <varname>hw.acpi.remove_interface</varname>. For more + details, see &man.acpi.4; manual page.</para> + + <para revision="209788">The &man.alq.9; support has been + improved. The <function>alq_writen()</function> and + <function>alq_getn()</function> KPIs have been extended to + support variable length messages, which is enabled at ALQ + creation time depending on the arguments passed to + <function>alq_open()</function>. Also, the + <literal>ALQ_NOACTIVATE</literal> and + <literal>ALQ_ORDERED</literal> flags have been added to allow + ALQ consumers to have more control over I/O scheduling and + resource acquisition respectively. These extensions are fully + backward compatible.</para> + + <para revision="209783">The &man.alq.9; support is now provided + as a kernel module <filename>alq.ko</filename>.</para> + + <para revision="209692">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now + supports an optional delay in <command>reset</command> and + <command>reboot</command> commands. This allows an + administrator to break the system into debugger and trigger + automatic textdump when an unattended panic occurs.</para> + + <para revision="212230">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now + supports a <command>show cdev</command> command. This + displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs + node name and struct cdev address.</para> + + <para revision="214326">The &os; <filename>GENERIC</filename> + kernel is now compiled with <option>KDB</option> and + <option>KDB_TRACE</option> options. From 8.2-RELEASE the + kernel supports displaying a stack trace on panic by using + &man.stack.9; facility with no debugger backend like + &man.ddb.8;. Note that this does not change the default + behaviors of the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel on + panic.</para> + + <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following + &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables: + <varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>, + <varname>vm.kmem_size_max</varname>, and + <varname>vm.kmem_size_min</varname>, + <varname>debug.kdb.stop_cpus</varname>, + <varname>debug.trace_on_panic</varname>, and + <varname>kern.sync_on_panic</varname>. Also, new + &man.sysctl.8; variables <varname>vm.kmem_map_size</varname> + for the current kmem map size and + <varname>vm.kmem_map_free</varname> for largest contiguous + free range in kmem map, <varname>vfs.ncsizefactor</varname> + for size factor for namecache, and + <varname>vfs.ncnegfactor</varname> for ratio of negative + namecache entries have been added.</para> + + <para revision="212427">The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has + been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of + allocated memories over a longer time. For more details, see + &man.memguard.9; manual page.</para> + + <para revision="214756"><literal>PT_LWPINFO</literal> request to + obtain information about the kernel thread that caused the + traced process to stop in the &man.ptrace.2; process tracing + and debugging facility has been improved. It now reports + system call entry and leave events, as well as availability of + <varname>siginfo_t</varname> accompanying the reported + signal.</para> + + <para revision="214254">The &os; &man.crypto.4; framework + (opencrypto) now supports XTS-AES (XEX-TCB-CTS, or XEX-based + Tweaked Code Book mode with CipherText Stealing), which is + defined in IEEE Std. 1619-2007.</para> + + <para arch="amd64" revision="215788">Xen HVM support in + &os;/amd64 kernel has been improved. For more details, see + &man.xen.4; manual page.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214784">The qpi(4) pseudo bus + driver has been added. This supports extra PCI buses on Intel + QPI chipsets where various hardware such as memory controllers + for each socket is connected.</para> <sect3 id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para arch="pc98">The <filename>boot2</filename> bootcode has - been reimplemented based on the &arch.i386 counterpart. It - now supports ELF binary, UFS2 file system, and larger number - of slices.</para> - - <para arch="ia64">The EFI <filename>loader</filename> program - now supports a command-line option <option>-dev - <replaceable>currdev</replaceable></option> to specify the - default value of <varname>currdev</varname>. This option - can be set by the EFI boot manager.</para> - - <para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports - U-Boot storage.</para> - - <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has - been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when - using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the - loader fails to load a kernel.</para> - - <para>A kernel environment variable - <varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports - multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated - list. Each list element will be tried in order and the - first available one will be mounted.</para> - - <para>The <filename>zfsloader</filename> has been added. This - is a separate &man.zfs.8; enabled loader. Note that a ZFS - bootcode (<filename>zfsboot</filename> or - <filename>gptzfsboot</filename>) need to be installed - to use this new loader.</para> - - <para>The <filename>zfsboot</filename> and - <filename>gptzfsboot</filename> bootcode now fully support - 64-bit LBAs for disk addresses. This allows booting from - large volumes.</para> + <para revision="213994">&os; now fully supports GPT (GUID + Partition Table). Checksums of primary header and primary + partition table are verified properly now.</para> + + <para arch="powerpc" revision="215919,215920">Memory + management issues that prevented &os; OpenFirmware loader + and netbooting from working have been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="212717">The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS + version 3 instead of version 2 by default.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="proc"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>adb</filename> driver now - supports for interpreting taps on ADB touchpads as a button - click.</para> - - <para>The amdsbwd(4) driver for AMD SB600/SB7xx watchdog - timer has been added.</para> - - <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>apt</filename> driver for - the Apple Touchpad present on MacBook has been added to - <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para> - - <para arch="sparc64">The epic(4) driver for the front panel - LEDs in Sun Fire V215/V245 has been added.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.ipmi.4; driver that caused incorrect - watchdog timer setting has been fixed.</para> - - <para arch="sparc64">The &man.pci.4; driver now supports a - JBus to PCIe bridge (called as <quote>Fire</quote>) found in - the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines.</para> - - <para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides - thermal management and monitoring features. This allows fan - control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5 - machines, as well as an &man.led.4; interface to control the - sleep LED.</para> - - <para>The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now - supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip.</para> - - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865 - family of Serial/Parallel ports.</para> - - <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel - from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by - <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para> - - <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send - a zero length packet has been fixed.</para> - - <para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8; - <literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties - instead of <literal>attach</literal> events. The following is an - example entry of &man.devd.conf.5; to match a &man.umass.4; - device with a SCSI subclass and BBB protocol:</para> - - <programlisting>notify 100 { - match "system" "USB"; - match "subsystem" "INTERFACE"; - match "type" "ATTACH"; - match "intclass" "0x08"; - match "intsubclass" "0x06"; - match "intprotocol" "0x50"; - action "/path/to/command -flag"; -};</programlisting> + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215633">The &man.aesni.4; + driver has been added. This supports AES accelerator on + Intel CPUs and accelerates AES operations for + &man.crypto.4;.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="210476">The &man.aibs.4; + driver has been added. This supports the hardware sensors + in ASUS motherboards and replaces the &man.acpi.aiboost.4; + driver.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="211914">The &man.coretemp.4; + driver now supports Xeon 5500/5600 series.</para> + + <para arch="powerpc" revision="215694">&os;/powerpc now + supports the I2C bus in Apple System Management Unit.</para> + + <para arch="powerpc" revision="215695">A device driver that + supports CPU temperature sensors on PowerMac 11,2 has been + added.</para> + + <para revision="215482">The &man.ehci.4;, &man.ohci.4;, and + &man.uhci.4; driver now support LOW speed BULK transfer + mode.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="209952">The &man.ichwd.4; + driver now supports Intel NM10 Express chipset watchdog + timer.</para> + + <para revision="215036">The &man.tpm.4; driver, which supports + Trusted Platform Module has been added.</para> + + <para revision="215944">The xhci(4) driver, which supports + Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) and USB 3.0, has + been added.</para> <sect4 id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> - <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD - brightness control notify handler.</para> - - <para>The &man.acpi.sony.4; helper driver now supports - default display brightness, wired LAN power, and bass - gain.</para> - - <para>The &man.agp.4; driver has been improved. It includes - a fix for aperture size calculation issue which prevents - some graphics cards from working.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now allows AD1981HD codecs - to use playback mixer.</para> - - <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now supports multichannel - (4.0 and 7.1) playback support. The 5.1 mode support is - disabled now due to unidentified synchronization problem. - Devices which supports the 7.1 mode can handle the 5.1 - operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;. Note - that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all - ports.</para> + <para>The &os; Linux emulation subsystem now supports the + <application>video4linux</application> API. This requires + native <application>video4linux</application> hardware + drivers such as the ones provided by <filename + role="ports">multimedia/pwcbsd</filename> and <filename + role="ports">multimedia/webcamd</filename>.</para> + + <para revision="215483">MIDI input buffer size in the + &man.uaudio.4; driver has been changed. This fixes a + problem where the input appears several seconds + late.</para> + + <para revision="215484">An issue in the &man.uaudio.4; + driver that prevented some USB audio devices from working + has been fixed.</para> </sect4> <sect4 id="net-if"> <title>Network Interface Support</title> - <para>The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros - AR9285-based devices.</para> + <para revision="212021">The &man.alc.4; driver now supports + Atheros AR8151/AR8152 PCIe Gigabit/Fast Ethernet + controllers.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.ath.4; driver which causes a problem - of AR5416-based chipsets including AR9285 has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="215003">A bug in the &man.alc.4; driver was + fixed that could lead to a system freeze when the system + was booted without a cable plugged in. This symptom was + found in AR8132 on EEE PC.</para> + + <para revision="212011">The TX interrupt moderation timer in + the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms. + The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para> + + <para revision="214297,214298,214301">The &man.axe.4; driver + has been improved for stability and better performance on + the TX packet rate.</para> + + <para revision="214997">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports + BCM5718 x2 PCI Express dual-port gigabit Ethernet + controller family. This family is the successor to the + BCM5714/BCM5715 family and supports IPv4/IPv6 checksum + offloading, TSO, VLAN hardware tagging, jumbo frames, + MSI/MSIX, IOV, RSS and TSS. The current version of the + driver supports all hardware features except IOV and + RSS/TSS.</para> - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports BCM5761, BCM5784, and - BCM57780-based devices.</para> + <para revision="211367">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which + prevented TSO in BCM57780 from working has been + fixed.</para> - <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP - Segmentation Offloading) on BCM5755 or newer - controllers.</para> + <para revision="214700">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that + could wrongly disable the TX checksum offloading feature + as well when one tries to disable only the RX checksum + offloading has been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="214714">Some improvements for reliability of + the &man.bge.4; driver with BCM5906 controller has been + made.</para> + + <para revision="214698">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports + hardware MAC statistics in controller's internal memory + for BCM5705 or newer Broadcom controllers. These counters + can be accessed via &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats.*</varname> + and provide useful information to diagnose driver + issues.</para> + + <para revision="213109">UDP checksum offloading in the + &man.bge.4; driver has been disabled by default. This is + because Broadcom controllers have a bug which can generate + UDP datagrams with checksum value <literal>0</literal> + when TX UDP checksum offloading is enabled. The checksum + offloading can be enabled by using the following loader + tunable:</para> + + <programlisting>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.forced_udpcsum</programlisting> + + <para revision="213593">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that + could lead to poor performance on a system with more than + 4 GB RAM has been fixed. The cause was that all of + Broadcom controllers except the BCM5755 and later have a + bug in 4 GB-boundary DMA processing and used the bounce + buffer in an inefficient way.</para> + + <para revision="212275">The &man.bwi.4; driver, which supports + Broadcom BCM430* and BCM431* family Wireless Ethernet + controllers, has been added. This is not compiled into + the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because there are + some problems. The kernel module + <filename>if_bwi.ko</filename> is available and can be + loaded without recompiling the kernel to enable this + driver.</para> - <para>A long-standing bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which - was related to ASF heartbeat sending has been + <para revision="212274">A bug in the &man.bwn.4; driver that + prevented WPA authentication from working has been fixed.</para> - <para>A long-standing stability issue of the &man.bce.4; and - &man.bge.4; driver due to a hardware bug in its DMA - handling when the system has more than 4GB memory has been - fixed. This applies to BCM5714, BCM5715, and BCM5708 - controllers.</para> + <para revision="215499">A bug in the &man.cdce.4; driver has + been fixed.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that incorrectly - enabled TSO on BCM5754/BCM5754M controllers has been - fixed.</para> + <para revision="211848">The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports + the following new &man.sysctl.8; variables: + <varname>hw.cxgb.nfilters</varname> sets the maximum + number of entries in the hardware filter table, + <varname>dev.cxgbc.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.pkt_timestamp</varname> + provides packet timestamp instead of connection hash, and + <varname>dev.cxgbc.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.core_clock</varname> + provides the core clock frequency in kHz.</para> + + <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version + 7.1.9.</para> + + <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version + 2.0.7.</para> + + <para revision="209309">The &man.em.4; and &man.igb.4; drivers + now provide statistics counters as &man.sysctl.8; MIB + objects.</para> + + <para revision="211241">The &man.em.4; and &man.igb.4; drivers + now support the &man.led.4; interface via + <filename>/dev/led/em<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> + and + <filename>/dev/led/igb<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> + for identification LED control. The following command + line makes the LED blink on <literal>em0</literal>:</para> + + <screen>&prompt.root; echo f2 > /dev/led/em0</screen> + + <para revision="212150">The &man.epair.4; virtual Ethernet + interface driver now supports explicit UP/DOWN linkstate. + This fixes an issue when it is used with the &man.carp.4; + protocol.</para> + + <para revision="214717">The &man.fxp.4; driver now supports + TSO over VLAN on i82550 and i82551 controllers.</para> + + <para revision="210673">The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports + Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series. The firmware has + been updated to version 9.221.4.1.</para> + + <para revision="212386">The &man.ixgbe.4; + driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para> + + <para revision="209308,215970,217593">The &man.ixgbe.4; + driver has been updated to version 2.3.8. It now supports + 82599, better interrupt handling, hardware assist to LRO, + VM SRIOV interface, and so on.</para> + + <para + revision="211379,215881,215890,2105894,216002,216023,216029,216031,216033">The + &man.miibus.4; has been rewritten for the generic IEEE + 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support. The + &man.alc.4;, &man.bge.4;, &man.bce.4;, &man.cas.4;, + &man.fxp.4;, &man.gem.4;, &man.jme.4;, &man.msk.4;, + &man.nfe.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.stge.4;, and &man.xl.4; + drivers along with atphy(4), bmtphy(4), brgphy(4), + e1000phy(4), gentbi(4), inphy(4), ip1000phy(4), jmphy(4), + nsgphy(4), nsphyter(4), and &man.rgephy.4; have been + updated to support flow control via this facility.</para> + + <para revision="212386">The &man.mwlfw.4; + driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para> + + <para revision="216054">A bug in the &man.mxge.4; driver + that prevented TSO from working has been fixed.</para> - <para>A bug in the &man.if.bridge.4; driver has been fixed. - The MTU was set based on the firstly-added member even if - the addition failed.</para> - - <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports - <varname>SIOCSIFMTU</varname> ioctl. For example, - <command>ifconfig bridge0 mtu 1280</command> can change - the MTU of <literal>bridge0</literal> to - <literal>1280</literal>. Changing the MTU is allowed only - when all members have the same MTU value.</para> - - <para>The &man.bwn.4; driver for Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets - has been added.</para> - - <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to T3 - firmware 7.8.0.</para> - - <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports hardware - filtering based on inspection of L2/L3/L4 headers. - Filtering based on source IP address, destination IP - address, source port number, destination port number, - 802.1q VLAN frame tag, UDP, TCP, and MAC address is - possible. The configuration can be done by the - cxgbtool(8) utility. Note that cxgbtool(8) is in - <filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not - compiled by default.</para> - - <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version - 7.0.5.</para> - - <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum - offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para> - - <para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC - statistics via sysctl variables.</para> - - <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version - 1.9.5.</para> - - <para>The &man.iwn.4; driver has been updated. This - includes various improvements and bugfixes regarding RF - switch, bgscan support, suspend/resume support, locking - issue, and more. The line <literal>device iwnfw</literal> - in the kernel configuration file will include all firmware - images.</para> - - <para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version - 2.2.0.</para> - - <para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>It now supports Marvell Yukon 88E8042, 88E8057, - 88E8059 (Yukon Optima) devices and DGE-560SX (Yukon - XL).</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A rudimentary interrupt moderation with - programmable countdown timer register has been - implemented. The default parameter of the holdoff - time is 100us and this can be changed via sysctl - variable - <varname>dev.mskc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>. - Note that the interrupt moderation is shared resource - on a dual-port controllers and it is impossible to use - separate interrupt moderation values for each - port.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>A stability issue has been fixed. A heavy RX - traffic while rebooting is in progress could prevent - the system from working.</para> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>The &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated to firmware - version 1.4.50 from Myricom.</para> - - <para>The &man.re.4; driver no longer performs an - unnecessary interface up/down during getting IP address - via DHCP.</para> - - <para>The &man.re.4; driver now uses <literal>2048</literal> - as PCIe Maximum Read Request Size. This improves bulk - transfer performance.</para> - - <para>The &man.run.4; driver for Ralink - RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB 802.11agn devices has been - added.</para> - - <para>The sge(4) driver for Silicon Integrated Systems - SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added. This - supports TSO and TSO over VLAN.</para> - - <para>The &man.ste.4; driver has been improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the - interfaces has been eliminated.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>RX interrupt moderation with single shot timer has - been implemented. The default parameter of the - moderation time is 150us and this can be changed via - sysctl variable - <varname>dev.ste.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_rx_mod</varname>. - Setting it 0 effectively disables the RX interrupt - moderation feature.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>The tsec(4) driver now supports &man.altq.4;.</para> - - <para>The &man.u3g.4; driver has been improved and now works - with ZTE MF636, Option Gi0322, Globetrotter GE40x, and - Novatel MC950D.</para> - - <para>The &man.uhso.4; driver for Option HSDPA USB devices - has been added. A new &man.uhsoctl.1; userland utility - can be used to initiate and close the WAN - connection.</para> - - <para>The &man.vge.4; driver has been improved:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the - interfaces has been eliminated.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Hardware MAC statistics are now supported via sysctl variables - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.stats</varname>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Interrupt moderation with single shot timer and - scheme supported by VT61xx controllers have been - implemented. The default parameters are tuned to - generate interrupt less than 8k per second, and these - parameters can be changed via sysctl variables - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>, - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.rx_coal_pkt</varname>, - and - <varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.tx_coal_pkt</varname>. - Note that an up/down cycle is needed to make a - parameter change take effect.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para revision="215456">The &man.nfe.4; driver now supports + WoL (Wake on LAN).</para> - <para>The &man.urtw.4; driver has been improved and now - supports RTL8187B-based devices.</para> + <para revision="215218">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + 64-bit DMA addressing for RTL810xE/RTL8168/RTL8111 PCIe + controllers.</para> - <para>The &os; Xen netfront driver has been improved in - stability and performance.</para> + <para revision="215405">The &man.re.4; driver now supports + hardware interrupt moderation of TX completion interrupts + on RTL8169/RTL8168 controllers.</para> + + <para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WoL + (Wake on LAN) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para> + + <para revision="215222">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports + reading hardware statistics counters by setting a + &man.sysctl.8; variable + <varname>dev.rl.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname> + to <literal>1</literal>.</para> + + <para revision="212039">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports a + device hint to change a way of register access. Although + some newer RTL8139 controllers support memory-mapped + register access, it is difficult to detect the support + automatically. For this reason the driver uses I/O + mapping by default and provides the following device hint. + If it is set to <literal>0</literal>, the driver uses + memory mapping for register access.</para> + + <programlisting>hint.rl.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="0"</programlisting> + + <para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para> + + <para revision="214407">The &man.rl.4; driver has been + improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX + performance under high RX load.</para> + + <para revision="215216">A bug in the &man.sk.4; driver has + been fixed. It did not program the station address for + Yukon controllers and overriding the station address with + &man.ifconfig.8; was not possible.</para> + + <para revision="211359">The &man.sk.4; driver now disables TX + checksum offloading by default. This is because some + revisions of the Yukon controller generate corrupted frames. + The checksum offloading can be enabled manually by using + <option>txcsum</option> option in the &man.ifconfig.8; + utility.</para> + + <para revision="212468,213612,213628">The &man.sis.4; driver + now works on all supported platforms. Some stability and + performance issues have also been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="213637">The &man.sis.4; driver now supports + WoL (Wake on LAN) on NS DP8315 controller.</para> + + <para revision="213626">A tunable + <varname>dev.sis.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.manual_pad</varname> + for the &man.sis.4; driver has been added. This controls + whether padding with 0x00 for short frames is done by CPU, + rather than the controller. The reason why this tunable + has been added is that NS DP83815/DP83816 pads them with + 0xff though RFC 1042 specifies it should be 0x00. The + tunable is disabled by default, which means padding with + 0xff is used because padding with 0x00 by software needs + extra CPU cycles. Setting a non-zero value enables the + software padding.</para> + + <para revision="211357">The &man.ste.4; driver now supports a + device hint to change a way of register access. Although + it uses memory-mapped register access by default, some old + IC Plus Corp (formerly Sundace) controllers are found + unstable. The following device hint makes the driver use + I/O mapping for register access:</para> + + <programlisting>hint.ste.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="1"</programlisting> + + <para revision="213120">The &man.xl.4; driver now supports + WoL (Wake on LAN). Note that not all controllers support + this functionality and some need an additional remote + wakeup cable.</para> </sect4> </sect3> <sect3 id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para>&os; flowtable now supports IPv6. This is for per-CPU - caching flows as a means of accelerating L3 and L2 lookups - as well as providing stateful load balancing when ECMP - (Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing) is enabled by <option>option - RADIX_MPATH</option>.</para> - - <para>A new capability flag <literal>LINKSTATE</literal> has *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***
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