From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 22 11:41:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 423EDD8B; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DE7D16B6; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rBMBfRU9024506; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id rBMBfRG7024504; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201312221141.rBMBfRG7024504@svn.freebsd.org> From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:27 -0000 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. + &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;. + The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.