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authorHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2011-02-08 20:39:03 +0000
committerHiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>2011-02-08 20:39:03 +0000
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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.sgml39
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">