From ee72a8af3d85da2f29a96e1e656bed12775202ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:29:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update release note: boot0 volume ID and F6 PXE invoke support, DHCP options via kenv, cpuctl(4) added, ciphy(4) VSC8211 support, jme(4) newer JMC250/260 support, rl(4) improved, ata(4) Marvell PATA M88SX6121 support, and config(8) multiple makeoption support. Approved by: re (implicit) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/7.2@191505 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 27 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 1a58fe0d..b75f03ab 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -212,13 +212,22 @@ Boot Loader Changes - + The &man.boot.8; now supports 4-byte volume ID that + certain versions of Windows put into the MBR and invoking + PXE by pressing F6 key on some supported BIOSes. + + The &man.loader.8; is now able to obtain DHCP options + via &man.kenv.2; variables in the case of network boot. Hardware Support - + The &man.cpuctl.4; driver, which provides a special + device /dev/cpuctl as an interface to + the system CPU and functionality to retrieve CPUID + information, read/write machine specific registers (MSR) and + perform CPU firmware updates. Multimedia Support @@ -251,8 +260,15 @@ Network Interface Support - + The ciphy(4) driver now supports Vitesse VSC8211 + PHY. + The &man.jme.4; driver now supports newer JMicron + JMC250/JMC260 revisions. + + The &man.rl.4; driver has been improved. A bug which + prevents it from working on systems with more than 4GB + memory has been fixed. @@ -271,6 +287,8 @@ Disks and Storage + The &man.ata.4; driver now supports Marvell PATA M88SX6121. + The &man.mmc.4; and &man.mmcsd.4; driver now support MMC and SDHC cards, high speed timing, wide bus, and multiblock transfers. @@ -293,6 +311,9 @@ Userland Changes + The &man.config.8; utility now supports + multiple makeoption lines. + The &man.fetch.1; utility now supports an flag which supports If-Modified-Since HTTP request. -- 2.42.0