From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 20:20:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320D616A41F for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:20:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org) Received: from sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org (i153153.upc-i.chello.nl [62.195.153.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF9343D62 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:20:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org) Received: by sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org (Postfix, from userid 100) id 350AF11454; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:20:45 +0100 (CET) From: Melvyn Sopacua To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:20:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051216105005.68898.qmail@web36212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051216184149.GC58262@thought.org> <20051216194255.GB31497@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20051216194255.GB31497@soaustin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512162120.45053.freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:20:55 -0000 On Friday 16 December 2005 20:42, Mark Linimon wrote: > And, if someone ever wants to write that 5.X vs 6.X vs 7.X feature list > comparison, now would be a good time :-) Well, here's a nice start (and a question or two slipped in) - dmesg diff between two GENERIC kernels 5 vs 6 stable of the same date, same hardware. Noise reduced (mem range flips on hw, 'same' entries): -FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #3: Sun Nov 20 03:52:04 CET 2005 - root@sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC +FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Wed Dec 7 01:36:46 CET 2005 + root@sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org:/usr/obj/usr/current/src/sys/GENERIC Features=0xa7e9f9bf + Features2=0x180 Q: What are those extra features and are they useful? ;-) +npx0: [FAST] -cpu0: on acpi0 +cpu0: on acpi0 Q: Guessing that's a formatting difference, rather then 6.x not recognizing the states (sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported confirms 4 states) -ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring +pci_link1: BIOS IRQ 11 for 0.31.INTB is invalid Q: Could this be midi? +uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] +uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] +uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] Q: Again - is this formatting or are these (and the ones below) still under Giant in 6.x but not in 5.x? -pci0: at device 29.7 (no driver attached) +ehci0: mem 0xf4fffc00-0xf4ffffff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0 +ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] +usb3: EHCI version 1.0 +usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 +usb3: on ehci0 +usb3: USB revision 2.0 +uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 +uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered Kudos! -atapci0: port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 -ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 -ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 -pcm0: port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0 -pcm0: +atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xbfa0-0xbfaf at device 31.1 on pci0 +ata0: on atapci0 +ata1: on atapci0 +pci0: at device 31.5 (no driver attached) Didn't have snd_ich_load="YES" in loader.conf yet. pcm0 appears the same and is GIANT-LOCKED on 6. +atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] +psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] -Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1398819442 Hz quality 800 -Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec +Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1398819606 Hz quality 800 +Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec Q: This is a big scarey difference :p This isn't a printf bug I presume? -acd0: CDRW at ata1-master PIO4 +acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 That's *very* nice! -- Melvyn Sopacua freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Qt: 3.3.5 KDE: 3.4.3