Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 07:58:47 +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: r259763 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201312230758.rBN7wlTK060895@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: rodrigc Date: Mon Dec 23 07:58:46 2013 New Revision: 259763 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259763 Log: Add notes for ARM. 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 Mon Dec 23 07:35:34 2013 (r259762) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 23 07:58:46 2013 (r259763) @@ -120,11 +120,6 @@ <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% @@ -215,6 +210,32 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al </sect3> + <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> + <title>ARM support</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="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of + improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> + + <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support + for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS). + Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. + See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link> + for further details.</para> + + <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support + provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB + translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions. + All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature. + See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link> + for further details.</para> + + </sect3> + <sect3 xml:id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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