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Author: hrs Date: Sun Jun 2 15:55:08 2013 New Revision: 41828 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41828 Log: Add draft version of the release documents. Approved by: re (implicitly) Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/errata.html (contents, props changed) head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/hardware.html (contents, props changed) head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/installation.html (contents, props changed) head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/readme.html (contents, props changed) head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/relnotes-detailed.html (contents, props changed) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/Makefile Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/Makefile Sun Jun 2 10:52:01 2013 (r41827) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/Makefile Sun Jun 2 15:55:08 2013 (r41828) @@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ DOCS+= schedule.xml -DATA= docbook.css +DATA= docbook.css \ + errata.html \ + hardware.html \ + installation.html \ + readme.html \ + relnotes-detailed.html .include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/errata.html ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/errata.html Sun Jun 2 15:55:08 2013 (r41828) @@ -0,0 +1,249 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">; +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="article" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="ARTICLE"> +<div class="TITLEPAGE"> +<h1 class="title"><a id="AEN2" name="AEN2">FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata</a></h1> + +<h3 class="corpauthor"> The FreeBSD Project</h3> + +<p class="copyright">Copyright © 2013 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p> + +<p class="pubdate">$FreeBSD: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml +251217 2013-06-01 10:57:25Z hrs $<br /> +</p> + +<div class="legalnotice"><a id="trademarks" name="trademarks"></a> +<p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.</p> + +<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or +registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and +other countries.</p> + +<p>SPARC, SPARC64, SPARCengine, and UltraSPARC are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc +in the United States and other countries. SPARC International, Inc owns all of the SPARC +trademarks and under licensing agreements allows the proper use of these trademarks by +its members.</p> + +<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their +products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and +the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed +by the “™” or the “®” symbol.</p> +</div> + +<hr /> +</div> + +<blockquote class="ABSTRACT"> +<div class="abstract"><a id="AEN16" name="AEN16"></a> +<p>This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, containing significant +information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise +included in the release documentation. This information includes security advisories, as +well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or +usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before +installing this version of FreeBSD.</p> + +<p>This errata document for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE will be maintained until the EoL of +FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE branch.</p> +</div> +</blockquote> + +<div class="sect1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="intro" name="intro">1 Introduction</a></h2> + +<p>This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD +8.4-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to +learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and +fixed.</p> + +<p>Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for +example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are +kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata” +for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>, plus any sites which keep up-to-date +mirrors of this location.</p> + +<p>Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of +this document (as of the time of the snapshot).</p> + +<p>For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/</a>; or <a +href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/" +target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/</a>.</p>; +</div> + +<div class="sect1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="security" name="security">2 Security Advisories</a></h2> + +<p>The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. For more +information, consult the individual advisories available from <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p>; + +<div class="informaltable"><a id="AEN34" name="AEN34"></a> +<table border="0" frame="void" width="100%" class="CALSTABLE"> +<col width="20%" /> +<col width="20%" /> +<col width="60%" /> +<thead> +<tr> +<th>Advisory</th> +<th>Date</th> +<th>Topic</th> +</tr> +</thead> + +<tbody> +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:01.openssl</a></td> +<td>03 May 2012</td> +<td> +<p>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:02.crypt.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:02.crypt</a></td> +<td>30 May 2012</td> +<td> +<p>Incorrect crypt() hashing</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:03.bind.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:03.bind</a></td> +<td>12 June 2012</td> +<td> +<p>Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8)</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:04.sysret</a></td> +<td>12 June 2012</td> +<td> +<p>Privilege escalation when returning from kernel</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:05.bind</a></td> +<td>06 August 2012</td> +<td> +<p>named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:06.bind</a></td> +<td>22 November 2012</td> +<td> +<p>Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:07.hostapd.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:07.hostapd</a></td> +<td>22 November 2012</td> +<td> +<p>Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:08.linux.asc" +target="_top">SA-12:08.linux</a></td> +<td>22 November 2012</td> +<td> +<p>Linux compatibility layer input validation error</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:02.libc.asc" +target="_top">SA-13:02.libc</a></td> +<td>19 February 2013</td> +<td> +<p>glob(3) related resource exhaustion</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:03.openssl.asc" +target="_top">SA-13:03.openssl</a></td> +<td>02 April 2013</td> +<td> +<p>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:04.bind.asc" +target="_top">SA-13:04.bind</a></td> +<td>02 April 2013</td> +<td> +<p>BIND remote denial of service</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver.asc" +target="_top">SA-13:05.nfsserver</a></td> +<td>29 April 2013</td> +<td> +<p>Insufficient input validation in the NFS server</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="sect1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="open-issues" name="open-issues">3 Open Issues</a></h2> + +<p>No open issue.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="late-news" name="late-news">4 Late-Breaking News and +Corrections</a></h2> + +<p>No news.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be +downloaded from <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</small></p>; + +<p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a>; before contacting <<a +href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> + +<p align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation, e-mail <<a +href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> +</body> +</html> + Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/hardware.html ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/hardware.html Sun Jun 2 15:55:08 2013 (r41828) @@ -0,0 +1,10608 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">; +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Hardware Notes</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="article" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="ARTICLE"> +<div class="TITLEPAGE"> +<h1 class="title"><a id="AEN2" name="AEN2">FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Hardware Notes</a></h1> + +<h3 class="corpauthor">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</h3> + +<p class="copyright">Copyright © 2013 The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p> + +<p class="pubdate">$FreeBSD: releng/8.4/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml +251256 2013-06-02 15:47:22Z hrs $<br /> +</p> + +<div class="legalnotice"><a id="trademarks" name="trademarks"></a> +<p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.</p> + +<p>AMD, Am486, Am5X86, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron, AMD Opteron, AMD-K6, Athlon, Élan, Opteron, +and PCnet are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.</p> + +<p>Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo, LifeBook, Stylistic, PRIMEPOWER, PRIMEQUEST, PRIMECLUSTER, +ETERNUS, TRIOLE, ESPRIMO, BioMedCAChe, CAChe, CELLINJECTOR, isS, Materials Explorer, +SystemWalker, and Interstage are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited +in the United States and other countries.</p> + +<p>IBM, AIX, EtherJet, Netfinity, OS/2, PowerPC, PS/2, S/390, and ThinkPad are trademarks +of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or +both.</p> + +<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or +registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and +other countries.</p> + +<p>SPARC, SPARC64, SPARCengine, and UltraSPARC are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc +in the United States and other countries. SPARC International, Inc owns all of the SPARC +trademarks and under licensing agreements allows the proper use of these trademarks by +its members.</p> + +<p>Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java, Java Virtual Machine, JavaServer Pages, JDK, JRE, JSP, +JVM, Netra, OpenJDK, Solaris, StarOffice, Sun Blade, Sun Enterprise, Sun Fire, SunOS, +Ultra and VirtualBox are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in +the United States and other countries.</p> + +<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their +products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and +the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed +by the “™” or the “®” symbol.</p> +</div> + +<hr /> +</div> + +<div class="TOC"> +<dl> +<dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt> + +<dt>1 <a href="#intro">Introduction</a></dt> + +<dt>2 <a href="#proc">Supported Processors and System Boards</a></dt> + +<dd> +<dl> +<dt>2.1 <a href="#proc-amd64">amd64</a></dt> + +<dt>2.2 <a href="#proc-i386">i386</a></dt> + +<dt>2.3 <a href="#proc-ia64">ia64</a></dt> + +<dt>2.4 <a href="#proc-pc98">pc98</a></dt> + +<dt>2.5 <a href="#proc-powerpc">powerpc</a></dt> + +<dt>2.6 <a href="#proc-sparc64">sparc64</a></dt> +</dl> +</dd> + +<dt>3 <a href="#support">Supported Devices</a></dt> + +<dd> +<dl> +<dt>3.1 <a href="#disk">Disk Controllers</a></dt> + +<dt>3.2 <a href="#ethernet">Ethernet Interfaces</a></dt> + +<dt>3.3 <a href="#fddi">FDDI Interfaces</a></dt> + +<dt>3.4 <a href="#atm">ATM Interfaces</a></dt> + +<dt>3.5 <a href="#wlan">Wireless Network Interfaces</a></dt> + +<dt>3.6 <a href="#misc-network">Miscellaneous Networks</a></dt> + +<dt>3.7 <a href="#serial">Serial Interfaces</a></dt> + +<dt>3.8 <a href="#sound">Sound Devices</a></dt> + +<dt>3.9 <a href="#camera">Camera and Video Capture Devices</a></dt> + +<dt>3.10 <a href="#usb">USB Devices</a></dt> + +<dt>3.11 <a href="#firewire">IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices</a></dt> + +<dt>3.12 <a href="#bluetooth">Bluetooth Devices</a></dt> + +<dt>3.13 <a href="#crypto-accel">Cryptographic Accelerators</a></dt> + +<dt>3.14 <a href="#misc">Miscellaneous</a></dt> +</dl> +</dd> +</dl> +</div> + +<div class="sect1"> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="intro" name="intro">1 Introduction</a></h2> + +<p>This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. It +lists the hardware platforms supported by FreeBSD, as well as the various types of +hardware devices (storage controllers, network interfaces, and so on), along with known +working instances of these devices.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="proc" name="proc">2 Supported Processors and System +Boards</a></h2> + +<p>This section provides some architecture-specific information about the specific +processors and systems that are supported by each architecture.</p> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-amd64" name="proc-amd64">2.1 amd64</a></h3> + +<p>Since mid-2003 FreeBSD/amd64 has supported the AMD64 	(“Hammer”) and +<span class="trademark">Intel</span>® EM64T architecture, and is 	now one of the +Tier-1 platforms (fully supported 	architecture), which are expected to be Production +Quality 	with respects to all aspects of the FreeBSD operating system, 	including +installation and development environments.</p> + +<p>Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 	(AMD) and Intel EM64T +(Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 	64-bit mode of the two architectures are almost +compatible 	with each other, and FreeBSD/amd64 should support them 	both.</p> + +<p>As of this writing, the following processors are 	supported:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">AMD Athlon</span>™64 (“Clawhammer”).</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">AMD Opteron</span>™ (“Sledgehammer”).</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>All multi-core <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span +class="trademark">Xeon</span>™ processors except 	 Sossaman have EM64T +support.</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>The single-core <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span +class="trademark">Xeon</span> processors “Nocona”, “Irwindale”, +	 “Potomac”, and “Cranford” have 	 EM64T support.</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>All <span class="trademark">Intel</span> Core 2 (not Core Duo) and later 	 +processors</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>All <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span class="trademark">Pentium</span>® D +processors</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> 4s and +Celeron Ds using 	 the “Cedar Mill” core have EM64T 	 support.</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Some <span class="trademark">Intel</span> <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> 4s +and Celeron Ds using 	 the “Prescott” core have EM64T support. See 	 +the <a href="http://processorfinder.intel.com" target="_top">Intel 	 Processor Spec +Finder</a> for the definitive answer about 	 EM64T support in Intel processors.</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> EM64T is an extended version of IA-32 (x86) and +	different from <span class="trademark">Intel</span> IA-64 (Itanium) architecture, +which 	FreeBSD/ia64 supports. Some <span class="trademark">Intel</span>'s old +documentation refers 	to <span class="trademark">Intel</span> EM64T as “64-bit +extension technology” 	or “IA-32e”.</p> + +<p>Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) 	configurations are +supported.</p> + +<p>In many respects, FreeBSD/amd64 is similar to 	FreeBSD/i386, in terms of drivers +supported. Generally, 	drivers that already function correctly on other 64-bit +	platforms should work.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-i386" name="proc-i386">2.2 i386</a></h3> + +<p>FreeBSD/i386 runs on a wide variety of “IBM PC 	 compatible” machines. +Due to the wide range of 	hardware available for this architecture, it is impossible +	to exhaustively list all combinations of equipment supported 	by FreeBSD. +Nevertheless, some general guidelines are 	presented here.</p> + +<p>Almost all <span class="trademark">i386</span>™-compatible processors with a +floating 	point unit are supported. All <span class="trademark">Intel</span> +processors beginning 	with the 80486 are supported, including the 80486, <span +class="trademark">Pentium</span>, 	<span class="trademark">Pentium</span> Pro, <span +class="trademark">Pentium</span> II, <span class="trademark">Pentium</span> III, <span +class="trademark">Pentium</span> 4, and 	variants thereof, such as the <span +class="trademark">Xeon</span> and <span class="trademark">Celeron</span>® processors. +	All <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible AMD processors are also +supported, 	including the <span class="trademark">Am486</span>®, <span +class="trademark">Am5x86</span>®, K5, <span class="trademark">AMD-K6</span>® (and +variants), 	<span class="trademark">AMD Athlon</span> (including Athlon-MP, +Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and 	Athlon Thunderbird), and <span +class="trademark">AMD Duron</span>™ processors. The AMD 	Élan SC520 embedded +processor is supported. The 	Transmeta Crusoe is recognized and supported, as are +	<span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible processors from Cyrix and NexGen.</p> + +<p>There is a wide variety of motherboards available for this 	architecture. +Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, and 	PCI expansion buses are +well-supported. There is some 	limited support for the MCA +(“MicroChannel”) 	expansion bus used in the IBM PS/2 line of PCs.</p> + +<p>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally 	supported by FreeBSD, +although in some cases, BIOS or motherboard 	bugs may generate some problems. Perusal +of the archives of 	the <a +href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp" target="_top">FreeBSD +symmetric multiprocessing mailing list</a> may yield some clues.</p> + +<p>FreeBSD will take advantage of SMT (Symmetric MultiThreading, 	also known as +HyperThreading on <span class="trademark">Intel</span> CPUs) on the supported 	CPUs. +The <tt class="filename">GENERIC</tt> kernel which is 	installed by default will +automatically detect the additional 	logical processors. The default FreeBSD +scheduler recognizes 	processor topology on the system and selects logical and +	physical processors to obtain optimal performance. The 	<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=smp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smp</span>(4)</span></a> manual +page has more details.</p> + +<p>FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions 	(PAE) support on CPUs +that support this feature. A kernel 	with the <tt class="literal">PAE</tt> feature +enabled will detect 	memory above 4 gigabytes and allow it to be used by the +	system. This feature places constraints on the device drivers 	and other +features of FreeBSD which may be used; consult the 	<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pae&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pae</span>(4)</span></a> manual +page for more details.</p> + +<p>FreeBSD will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with 	varying levels of +support for certain hardware features such 	as sound, graphics, power management, and +PCCARD expansion 	slots. These features tend to vary in idiosyncratic ways +	between machines, and frequently require special-case support 	in FreeBSD to +work around hardware bugs or other oddities. When 	in doubt, a search of the archives +of the <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile" +target="_top">FreeBSD laptop computer mailing list</a> may be 	useful.</p> + +<p>Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the 	Advanced Configuration and +Power Management (ACPI) standard. 	FreeBSD supports ACPI via the ACPI Component +Architecture 	reference implementation from <span class="trademark">Intel</span>, as +described in the 	<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> manual +page. The use of ACPI causes 	instabilities on some machines and it may be necessary +to 	disable the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via a kernel 	module. This +may be accomplished by adding the following line 	to <tt +class="filename">/boot/device.hints</tt>:</p> + +<pre class="programlisting"> +hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" +</pre> + +<p>Users debugging ACPI-related problems may find it useful 	to disable portions of +the ACPI functionality. The 	<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> manual +page has more information on how to do 	this via loader tunables.</p> + +<p>ACPI depends on a Differentiated System Descriptor Table 	(DSDT) provided by each +machine's BIOS. Some machines have 	bad or incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from +functioning 	correctly. Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found 	at the +<a href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php" target="_top">DSDT</a> 	section +of the <a href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">ACPI4Linux</a> project +	Web site. FreeBSD can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT 	provided by the +BIOS; see the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">acpi</span>(4)</span></a> manual +page for 	more information.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-ia64" name="proc-ia64">2.3 ia64</a></h3> + +<p>Currently supported processors are the <a +href="http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/refs/ia64/itanium/24532003.pdf" +target="_top"><span class="trademark">Itanium</span>®</a> 	and the <a +href="http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/refs/ia64/itanium2/25111003.pdf" +target="_top"><span class="trademark">Itanium</span> 	 2</a>.</p> + +<p>Supported chipsets include:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>HP zx1</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> 460GX</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Intel</span> E8870</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) 	configurations are +supported.</p> + +<p>Most devices that can be found in or are compatible with 	ia64 machines are fully +supported. The notable 	exception is the VGA console. The FreeBSD support for VGA +	consoles is at this time too much based on PC hardware and not 	all ia64 +machines have chipsets that provide sufficient 	PC legacy support. As such <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syscons&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">syscons</span>(4)</span></a> can +not be enabled 	and the use of a serial console is required.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-pc98" name="proc-pc98">2.4 pc98</a></h3> + +<p>NEC PC-9801/9821 series with almost all <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible +	processors, including 80486, <span class="trademark">Pentium</span>, <span +class="trademark">Pentium</span> Pro, 	<span class="trademark">Pentium</span> II, and +variants. All <span class="trademark">i386</span>-compatible processors 	by AMD, +Cyrix, IBM, and IDT are also supported.</p> + +<p>NEC FC-9801/9821 series, and NEC SV-98 series (both of 	them are compatible with +PC-9801/9821 series) should be 	supported.</p> + +<p>EPSON PC-386/486/586 series, which are compatible with NEC 	PC-9801 series are +supported.</p> + +<p>High-resolution mode is not supported. NEC 	PC-98XA/XL/RL/XL^2, and NEC PC-H98 +series are supported in 	normal (PC-9801 compatible) mode only.</p> + +<p>Although there are some multi-processor systems (such as 	Rs20/B20), SMP-related +features of FreeBSD are not supported 	yet.</p> + +<p>PC-9801/9821 standard bus (called C-Bus), PC-9801NOTE 	expansion bus (110pin), and +PCI bus are supported. New Extend 	Standard Architecture (NESA) bus (used in PC-H98, +SV-H98, and 	FC-H98 series) is not supported.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-powerpc" name="proc-powerpc">2.5 powerpc</a></h3> + +<p>The information for this paragraph has yet to be 	compiled.</p> +</div> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="proc-sparc64" name="proc-sparc64">2.6 sparc64</a></h3> + +<p>This section describes the systems currently known to be 	supported by FreeBSD on +the Fujitsu <span class="trademark">SPARC64</span>® and Sun <span +class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span>® 	platforms. For 	background information +on the various hardware designs see the 	<a +href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/" target="_top">Sun System 	 +Handbook</a>.</p> + +<p>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 	processor.</p> + +<p>When using the <tt class="filename">GENERIC</tt> kernel, 	FreeBSD/sparc64 systems +not equipped with a framebuffer 	supported by the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=creator&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">creator</span>(4)</span></a> (Sun +Creator, Sun Creator3D 	and Sun Elite3D) or <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=machfb&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">machfb</span>(4)</span></a> (Sun +PGX and Sun PGX64 	as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example +	<span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span>™ 100, <span +class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 150, Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span>™ +5	and Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 10) 	driver must use the serial +console.</p> + +<p>If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not 	have been tested with +FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. We encourage 	you to try it and send a note to the <a +href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64" target="_top">FreeBSD +SPARC porting mailing list</a> with your 	results, including which devices work and +which do not.</p> + +<p>The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>Naturetech GENIALstation 777S</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 100</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 150</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span>™ 150</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 220R</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 250</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 420R</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 450</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span>™ B100s (support for the on-board NICs +first 	 appeared in 8.1-RELEASE)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V100</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V120</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span>™ t1 100/105</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> T1 AC200/DC200</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1100</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1120</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1125</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> t 1400/1405</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> 120</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Netra</span> X1</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span>® Ultra AX1105</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> Ultra AXe</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> Ultra AXi</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> Ultra AXmp</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">SPARCengine</span> CP1500</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 1</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 1E</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 2</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 5</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 10</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 30</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 60</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 80</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Sun <span class="trademark">Ultra</span> 450</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In 	particular the fiber +channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not 	supported. However, it is possible +to use these with a SCSI controller 	supported by the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=esp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">esp</span>(4)</span></a> driver +(Sun ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI 	and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 3500</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Enterprise</span> 4500</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Sun 	<span +class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which +includes 	the following known working systems:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 1000</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 1500</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 2000</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Blade</span> 2500</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> 280R</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V210</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE +and 8.1-RELEASE)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V240</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE +and 8.1-RELEASE)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V250</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V440 (support for the on-board NICs first +	 appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only, +for 	 which support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, 	 other +centerplanes might work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V880</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE +and 8.1-RELEASE, 	 non-mixed <span class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> IV/IV+ +CPU-configurations only)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Netra</span> 20/<span class="trademark">Netra</span> T4</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>The following Sun <span class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> systems are not tested but +	believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V125</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p><span class="trademark">Sun Fire</span> V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE +and 8.1-RELEASE, 	 non-mixed <span class="trademark">UltraSPARC</span> IV/IV+ +CPU-configurations only)</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on 	Fujitsu <span +class="trademark">SPARC64</span> V are also supported by FreeBSD, which 	includes the +following known working systems:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span>® 250</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>The following Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> systems are not tested +but 	believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> 450</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> 650</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Fujitsu <span class="trademark">PRIMEPOWER</span> 850</p> +</li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="sect1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="sect1"><a id="support" name="support">3 Supported Devices</a></h2> + +<p>This section describes the devices currently known to be supported by FreeBSD. Other +configurations may also work, but simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and +corrections to this list are encouraged.</p> + +<p>Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class of devices is listed. +If the driver in question has a manual page in the FreeBSD base distribution (most +should), it is referenced here. Information on specific models of supported devices, +controllers, etc. can be found in the manual pages.</p> + +<div class="note"> +<blockquote class="note"> +<p><b>Note:</b> The device lists in this document are being generated 	automatically +from FreeBSD manual pages. This means that some 	devices, which are supported by +multiple drivers, may appear 	multiple times.</p> +</blockquote> +</div> + +<div class="sect2"> +<hr /> +<h3 class="sect2"><a id="disk" name="disk">3.1 Disk Controllers</a></h3> + +<p>[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, 	sparc64] IDE/ATA controllers (<a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ata</span>(4)</span></a> +	driver)</p> + +<p>[pc98] IDE/ATA controllers (wdc driver)</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>On-board IDE controller</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>[i386,ia64,amd64] Controllers supported by the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.4-RELEASE">; +<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">aac</span>(4)</span></a> driver +include:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>Adaptec AAC-364</p> *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***
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