From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 23 08:22:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 431CCFFA; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E6FD1488; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rBN8M9li070806; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id rBN8M9l0070805; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201312230822.rBN8M9l0070805@svn.freebsd.org> From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r259764 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:09 -0000 Author: rodrigc Date: Mon Dec 23 08:22:08 2013 New Revision: 259764 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259764 Log: Mention RDRAND and Xen PVHVM. Add a revision number for 4TB RAM support on amd64. 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 07:58:46 2013 (r259763) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 23 08:22:08 2013 (r259764) @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% of the system time on i/o intensive workloads. - The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel + The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added @@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ scheduler is now the default process scheduler in GENERIC kernels. + Support was added for + the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number + generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, + accessible with RDRAND instruction. + Virtualization support The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included @@ -208,6 +213,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Al &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from OpenBSD. + Xen PVHVM virtualization is now + part of the GENERIC kernel. +