From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 22 19:38:51 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 DD4DEC93; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:38:51 +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 C898E135F; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rBMJcpcl096476; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:38:51 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id rBMJcpuo096475; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:38:51 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201312221938.rBMJcpuo096475@svn.freebsd.org> From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:38:51 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r259735 - 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: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:38:51 -0000 Author: rodrigc Date: Sun Dec 22 19:38:51 2013 New Revision: 259735 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259735 Log: Group virtualization items in one section. 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 19:36:08 2013 (r259734) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sun Dec 22 19:38:51 2013 (r259735) @@ -120,25 +120,6 @@ Kernel Changes - The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included - with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) - support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond - (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs. - - &man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the - name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but - since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). - This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers - for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), - memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. - Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;. - - A paravirtualized driver named "hyperv" which - which supports Microsoft Hyper-V has been imported and made - part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, this driver is not part of - GENERIC, so hyperv_load="YES" must be added to - /boot/loader.conf to load the driver. - The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. @@ -191,6 +172,33 @@ scheduler is now the default process scheduler in GENERIC kernels. + + Virtualization support + The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included + with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) + support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond + (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs. + + &man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the + name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but + since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). + This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers + for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), + memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. + Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;. + + A paravirtualized driver named "hyperv" which + which supports Microsoft Hyper-V has been imported and made + part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, this driver is not part of + GENERIC, so hyperv_load="YES" must be added to + /boot/loader.conf to load the driver. + + The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. + &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from + OpenBSD. + + + Boot Loader Changes @@ -267,10 +275,6 @@ The &man.wpi.4; driver has been updated to include a number of stability fixes. - The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. - &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from - OpenBSD. - The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.