Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r259764 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201312230822.rBN8M9l0070805@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: rodrigc Date: Mon Dec 23 08:22:08 2013 New Revision: 259764 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259764 Log: Mention RDRAND and Xen PVHVM. Add a revision number for 4TB RAM support on amd64. 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 Dec 23 07:58:46 2013 (r259763) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 23 08:22:08 2013 (r259764) @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ 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">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel + <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added @@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ scheduler is now the default process scheduler in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</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> + <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> <title>Virtualization support</title> <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included @@ -208,6 +213,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al &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> + </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
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