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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2012 08:49:42 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r241189 - stable/9
Message-ID:  <201210040849.q948ng4d010170@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: kib
Date: Thu Oct  4 08:49:41 2012
New Revision: 241189
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241189

Log:
  MFC r241092:
  Add the UPDATING note about padlock rng support requiring the config change.

Modified:
  stable/9/UPDATING   (contents, props changed)

Modified: stable/9/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/UPDATING	Thu Oct  4 08:49:04 2012	(r241188)
+++ stable/9/UPDATING	Thu Oct  4 08:49:41 2012	(r241189)
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ handbook.
 Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
 
+
+20120913:
+	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
+	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
+	Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if
+	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
+	option, so the change only affects the custom kernel
+	configurations.
+
 20120727:
 	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
 	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these



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