Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 +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: r259718 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201312221141.rBMBfRG7024504@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: rodrigc Date: Sun Dec 22 11:41:26 2013 New Revision: 259718 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259718 Log: Mention virtio support. 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 Sun Dec 22 11:11:23 2013 (r259717) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sun Dec 22 11:41:26 2013 (r259718) @@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> + <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the + name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but + since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). + This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers + for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), + memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. + Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para> + <para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
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