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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:56:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r259749 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Message-ID:  <201312222256.rBMMujDJ068586@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: rodrigc
Date: Sun Dec 22 22:56:45 2013
New Revision: 259749
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259749

Log:
  Add updates for Raspberry PI support, unmapped VMIO, netmap(4), nvme(4).

Modified:
  head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml

Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Sun Dec 22 22:31:39 2013	(r259748)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Sun Dec 22 22:56:45 2013	(r259749)
@@ -120,6 +120,16 @@
   <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
     <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 
+    <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added.
+      Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link>
+      and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start
+      guide</link>.</para>
+
+    <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform
+      TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the
+      amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
+      of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para>
+
     <para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
       can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
 
@@ -292,6 +302,13 @@
 	  for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and
 	  IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para>
 
+	<para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added.  &man.netmap.4; is a framework for
+          high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS
+          rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing.
+          With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with
+          minimal packet sizes.  For more information, see:
+          <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para> 
+
       </sect4>
     </sect3>
 
@@ -338,6 +355,11 @@
       <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
         from Highpoint.</para>
 
+      <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support.
+        NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of
+        PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs).  For more information,
+        see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>;
+
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3 xml:id="fs">



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