From 104a1bbd9756bc47588434bc0508094797c27a27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:39:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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) git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.2@218455 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 39 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file 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 48d03dd9..e5bba5d4 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. + &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 + kmem_map too small panic which often occurs + when using ZFS. + + CPU topology detection + for Intel CPUs has been improved. + The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now supports an optional delay in reset and reboot commands. This allows an @@ -279,6 +291,15 @@ prevents TSO in BCM57780 from working has been fixed. + 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. + + Some improvements for reliability of + the &man.bge.4; driver with BCM5906 or BCM6906 controller + has been added. + 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. + The &man.fxp.4; driver now supports + TSO over VLAN on i82550 and i82551 controllers. + The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series. The firmware has been updated to version 9.221.4.1. @@ -531,9 +555,12 @@ hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin is enabled. - A device detection of Serverworls K2 - SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been - improved. + An issue of device detection of + Serverworks K2 SATA controllers in the &man.ata.4; has been fixed. + + A bug in the &man.ata.4; driver which + prevents some Silicon Image chipsets from working on big + endian systems has been fixed. 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. + A bug in the &man.b64decode.1; which + prevernts an option from handling arbitary + breaks in a base64 encoded string has been fixed. + The &man.calendar.1; utility now supports repeating events which span multiple years, lunar events, and solar events. @@ -901,7 +932,7 @@ version 8.14.4. --> The timezone database has been updated to the - tzdata2010m release. + tzdata2010o release. -- 2.42.0