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What's new since 2.1.7 +------------------------- + +Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes syncronized, geeze, +what else? + +gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source +now lives under /usr/src/contrib. + +Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware. + +The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection +between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the +version using the co-processor is now fully automatic. This will speed +up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile +their `libm' previously. + +Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support +for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards. + +The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the +popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one. + +There's now a workaround for the brokeness of the frequently used +CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default +in 2.2. + +The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option, +including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session +with +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?dset(8)">dset(8)</a>. +This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to +install the system on their hardware. + +Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card. + +Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors +as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using +the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and +remove the old ones). + +Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset. + +Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols. + +Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and +cleaning up the source tree accordingly. + +Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths. + +Update sgmlfmt to `instant'. + +Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC +1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell) +drivers. + +/stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general +system management tool. + +The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard +driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with +their mutual interaction. + +Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?moused(8)">moused(8)</a> +utility. + +2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the +Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives. The +driver is still under development (in particular to extend its +usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable +by now. + +Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources +shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree. There are also +other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2 +server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the +specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix). + +Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD +malloc implementation. This usually saves a lot of virtual memory +for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the +program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or +freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in +programs that use malloc. + +The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into +the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Wistle Communic- +ations Corp. + +The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS +filesystems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs. +This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like +rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash. +The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be +drastically accelerated by this. (A bindist-only installation from a +SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast +machine!) + +The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an +impressive number of drives. In other words, all the drives that +basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work. + +There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep +them in mind. Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T +controllers. These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the +driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that +chip. Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the +FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy +their product. The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config- +uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000 +clones and the AMD PCnet chips. The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as +well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver. + +The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support. +To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared +libraries, and for the Slackware development environment. + +Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is +reported to be working well now. + +FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been +decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default +binary format some day. + +A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared +linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator +(FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used. This works around +one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the +ABI it belongs to. + +Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape. + +The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel +programming interfaces. We are still seeking volunteers to document +interfaces here! + +The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away +from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h" +kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again. +We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away +on each run of +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?config(8)">config(8)</a> +to go away anytime soon. Unless you're changing +weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?config(8)">config(8)</a>, +or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for +you. See also the comments in the handbook about how it works. + + +2. Supported Configurations +--------------------------- + +FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus +based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the +386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive +configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is +also provided. + +What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with +FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet +received confirmation of this. + + +2.1. Disk Controllers +--------------------- + +WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) +WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) +IDE +ATA + +Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) +Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers +Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. +Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI +controllers. +Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers. + +Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x +and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. + +** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no + on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the + system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes, + CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card + without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally + indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up + or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them. + Check your system/board documentation for more details. + +Buslogic 545S & 545c +Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller +Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. +Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller +Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller + +SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI +controllers: + ASUS SC-200 + Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) + NCR cards (all) + Symbios cards (all) + Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F + Tyan S1365 + +Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the +AMD 53c974 as well). + +NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. + +DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. + +UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. + +Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. + +Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. + +WD7000 SCSI controller. + +With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for +SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including +DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives. + +The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: +(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and + SoundBlaster SCSI) +(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models) +(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary + interface (562/563 models) +(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) +(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA + quality!). + + +2.2. Ethernet cards +------------------- + +Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards + +AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) + +SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, +WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT +based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported. + +DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) +DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) +DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) +DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs + +Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A + +HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). + +Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) +Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 +Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet + +Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) +Isolink 4110 (8 bit) + +Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. + +3Com 3C501 cards + +3Com 3C503 Etherlink II + +3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ + +3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP + +3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA +(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL + +Toshiba ethernet cards + +PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also +supported. + +Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're +still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any +takers? + + +2.3. Misc +--------- + +AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. +ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. + +Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) +Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) +Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) +Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) + +Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. + +STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. + +SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. +SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards. + +Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, +ONboard 4/16 and Brumby. + +Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound +and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. + +Connectix QuickCam +Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber +Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber +Cortex1 frame grabber + +HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives. + +PS/2 mice + +Standard PC Joystick + +X-10 power controllers + +GPIB and Transputer drivers. + +Genius and Mustek hand scanners. + + +FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. + + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD +-------------------- + +You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: + +3.1. FTP/Mail +------------- + +You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from +`ftp.FreeBSD.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. + +For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file +MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in +networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! +Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to +become an official mirror site. + +If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your +only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to +`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message +to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. +Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of +megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute +LAST resort! + + +3.2. CDROM +---------- + +FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: + + Walnut Creek CDROM + 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D + Concord CA 94520 + 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) + +Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com. +Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from: + ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog. + +Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. +FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription +(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a +subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released. +Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel +your subscription at any time without further obligation. + +Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico +and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American +Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United +States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. + +Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an +unconditional return policy. + + +4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. +----------------------------------------------------------- + +Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always +valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find +(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!). + +The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with +Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI +script at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports +will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can +be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon +as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site +in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports +and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to +watch out for. + +If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to +submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: + + freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org + +Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move +even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use +this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem +reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether +the problem might have already been fixed since. + + +Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: + + freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org + + +Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have +extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired +enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To +contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send +mail to: + + freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org + + +Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* +amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and +are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you +may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: + + freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org + + +All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing +to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword +`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This +will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing +archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at +special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo +and ask about them! + + +5. Acknowledgements +------------------- + +FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not +hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very +hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD +project staffers, please see: + + http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/staff.html + +or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: + + file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html + +Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: + + Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers + Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert + David Dawes Don Lewis + +Special mention to: + + Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support) + this release would never have been possible. + + Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM + drive. + + Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for + testing. + + Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek + and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking. + + CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for + speedy package building. + + Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. + + And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the + world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. + +We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! + + The FreeBSD Project + +</pre> + +<p></p><a href="../index.html">Release Home</a> +</body> +</html> |