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author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-08 20:39:03 +0000 |
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committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-08 20:39:03 +0000 |
commit | eec6010edb17297a4bbdb96d05489abfce610e19 (patch) | |
tree | f977b4dc4396e30ff7119afb9ceb781da6564a9a | |
parent | 0d24dc881d147444d0c52cbd599ba82a65d4c8db (diff) | |
download | src-eec6010edb17297a4bbdb96d05489abfce610e19.tar.gz src-eec6010edb17297a4bbdb96d05489abfce610e19.zip |
Add more relnotes items for 8.2R:
[amd64] VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE=1 by default,
[amd64,i386] CPU topology detection for Intel CPUs improved,
bge(4) TXCSUM/RXCSUM confusion fixed,
bge(4) workaround for BCM5906/6906 added,
fxp(4) TSO over VLAN on 82550 and 82551 added,
ata(4) SiI chipsets on big endian systems fixed,
b64decode(1) -r break handling fixed, and
tzdata2010o.
Approved by: re (implicit)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/releng/8.2/; revision=218455
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 39 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 48d03dd94285..e5bba5d4df8d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -175,6 +175,18 @@ DMA bounce buffer which is required on systems with larger RAM than 4GB.</para> + <para arch="amd64" revision="214620">&os;/amd64 now always sets + the KVA space as equal to or larger than physical memory size. + The default size was calculated based on one-third of the + physical memory size by a code derived from one for i386. It + has been changed because constraints for memory space are not + severe on amd64 and this change would help to prevent a + <quote>kmem_map too small</quote> panic which often occurs + when using ZFS.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214621">CPU topology detection + for Intel CPUs has been improved.</para> + <para revision="209692">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now supports an optional delay in <command>reset</command> and <command>reboot</command> commands. This allows an @@ -279,6 +291,15 @@ prevents TSO in BCM57780 from working has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="214700">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver + which can wrongly disable the TX checksum offloading + feature as well when one tries only the RX checksum + offloading has been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="214714">Some improvements for reliability of + the &man.bge.4; driver with BCM5906 or BCM6906 controller + has been added.</para> + <para revision="213109">UDP checksum offloading in the &man.bge.4; driver has been disabled by default. This is because Broadcom controllers have a bug which can generate @@ -346,6 +367,9 @@ This fixes an issue when it is used with the &man.carp.4; protocol.</para> + <para revision="214717">The &man.fxp.4; driver now supports + TSO over VLAN on i82550 and i82551 controllers.</para> + <para revision="210673">The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series. The firmware has been updated to version 9.221.4.1.</para> @@ -531,9 +555,12 @@ <varname>hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin</varname> is enabled.</para> - <para revision="213291">A device detection of Serverworls K2 - SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been - improved.</para> + <para revision="213291">An issue of device detection of + Serverworks K2 SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been fixed.</para> + + <para revision="214667">A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver which + prevents some Silicon Image chipsets from working on big + endian systems has been fixed.</para> <para revision="214330">The &man.gconcat.8; GEOM class now supports kernel crash dump. The dumping is performed to the @@ -651,6 +678,10 @@ It now runs faster even when a single interface has a number of aliases.</para> + <para revision="214729">A bug in the &man.b64decode.1; which + prevernts an <option>-r</option> option from handling arbitary + breaks in a base64 encoded string has been fixed.</para> + <para revision="211723">The &man.calendar.1; utility now supports repeating events which span multiple years, lunar events, and solar events.</para> @@ -901,7 +932,7 @@ version 8.14.4.</para> --> <para>The timezone database has been updated to the - <application>tzdata2010m</application> release.</para> + <application>tzdata2010o</application> release.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="releng"> |