Author: hrs
Date: Wed Feb 23 19:07:50 2011
New Revision: 218977
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218977
Log:
Import and update relnotes items for 8.2R:
fix SA table's cell width[1],
alq(4) improvement in details, TCP reassembly improved[2],
xz rewording[3], and
various grammer fixes[4].
Suggested by: dougb[1], keramida[1], lstewart[2], mm[3], mandree[4].
Modified:
stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
stable/8/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl
stable/8/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent
Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Feb 23
18:22:40 2011 (r218976)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Feb 23
19:07:50 2011 (r218977)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
- <year>2010</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder role="mailto:d...@freebsd.org";>The &os; Documentation
Project</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
advisories available from
<ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/";></ulink>.</para>
- <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
+ <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colwidth="1*">
<colspec colwidth="1*">
@@ -132,64 +132,24 @@
<tbody>
<row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl.asc";
- >SA-09:15.ssl</ulink></entry>
- <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry>
- <entry><para>SSL protocol flaw</para></entry>
+ <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc";
+ >SA-10:08.bzip2</ulink></entry>
+ <entry>20 September 2010</entry>
+ <entry><para>Integer overflow in bzip2
decompression</para></entry>
</row>
+<!-- XXX: not for 8.2
<row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld.asc";
- >SA-09:16.rtld</ulink></entry>
- <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry>
- <entry><para>Improper environment sanitization in
&man.rtld.1;</para></entry>
+ <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:09.pseudofs.asc";
+ >SA-10:09.pseudofs</ulink></entry>
+ <entry>10 October 2010</entry>
+ <entry><para>Spurious mutex unlock</para></entry>
</row>
+-->
<row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc";
- >SA-09:17.freebsd-update</ulink></entry>
- <entry>3 Dec 2009</entry>
- <entry><para>Inappropriate directory permissions in
&man.freebsd-update.8;</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:01.bind.asc";
- >SA-10:01.bind</ulink></entry>
- <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>BIND &man.named.8; cache poisoning with DNSSEC
validation</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:02.ntpd.asc";
- >SA-10:02.ntpd</ulink></entry>
- <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>ntpd mode 7 denial of service</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs.asc";
- >SA-10:03.zfs</ulink></entry>
- <entry>6 Jan 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>ZFS ZIL playback with insecure
permissions</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail.asc";
- >SA-10:04.jail</ulink></entry>
- <entry>27 May 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>Insufficient environment sanitization in
&man.jail.8;</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie.asc";
- >SA-10:05.opie</ulink></entry>
- <entry>27 May 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>OPIE off-by-one stack overflow</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient.asc";
- >SA-10:06.nfsclient</ulink></entry>
- <entry>27 May 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>Unvalidated input in nfsclient</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf.asc";
- >SA-10:07.mbuf</ulink></entry>
- <entry>13 July 2010</entry>
- <entry><para>Lost mbuf flag resulting in data
corruption</para></entry>
+ <entry><ulink
url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:10.openssl.asc";
+ >SA-10:10.openssl</ulink></entry>
+ <entry>29 November 2010</entry>
+ <entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
@@ -199,1266 +159,1026 @@
<sect2 id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
- <para>The &man.ddb.4; debugger has been improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>It now supports <command>show
- ifnets</command> and <command>show ifnet <replaceable>struct
- ifnet *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
- <quote>ifnet *</quote> of each virtual network stack and
- fields of specified <varname>fip</varname>,
- respectively.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>It now supports <command>show all
- lltables</command>, <command>show lltable
- <replaceable>struct lltable *</replaceable></command>, and
- <command>show llentry <replaceable>struct llentry
- *</replaceable></command> commands to print a list of
- <quote>lltable *</quote> of each virtual network stack,
- fields of specified structures respectively.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The <command>show mount</command> command now prints
- active string mount options.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>It now supports <command>show
- vnetrcrs</command> command to dump the whole log of
- distinctive <varname>curvnet</varname> recursion
- events.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>It now supports <command>show
- vnet_sysinit</command> and <command>show
- vnet_unsysinit</command> commands to print
- ordered call lists.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>A new kernel thread called <quote>deadlock
- resolver</quote> has been added. This can be used to detect
- possible deadlock by using information of thread state and
- heuristic analysis. This is not enabled by default. To
- enable this, an option <option>option DEADLKRES</option> in
- kernel configuration file and recompilation of the
- kernel.</para>
-
- <para>The default &man.devfs.5; rules now expose the upper 256
- of &man.pty.4; device nodes.</para>
-
- <para>Two commands to enable/disable read-ahead have been added
- to &man.fcntl.2; system call:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><varname>F_READAHEAD</varname> specifies the amount
- for sequential access. The amount is specified in bytes and is
- rounded up to nearest block size.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><varname>F_RDAHEAD</varname> is a Darwin compatible
- version that use 128KB as the sequential access
- size.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>Note that the read-ahead amount is also limited by
- sysctl variable <varname>vfs.read_max</varname>, which may
- need to be raised in order to better utilize this
- feature.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.lindev.4; driver has been added. This is for
- supporting various Linux-specific pseudo devices such as
- <filename>/dev/full</filename>. Note that this is not
- included in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
- <para>A POSIX function pselect(3) has been reimplemented as a
- system call &man.pselect.2; to eliminate race
- condition.</para>
-
- <para>A kernel option <option>option
- INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE</option> has been added to
- <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler that the
- timestamp for the sleeping operation is not cleaned up on the
- wakeup has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>A race condition in the &man.sched.4bsd.4; scheduler has
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler which prevented
- process usage (<literal>%CPU</literal>) from working correctly
- has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>New SDT (Statically Defined Tracing) probes such as ones
- for <literal>opencrypto</literal> and <literal>vnet</literal>
- have been added to &os; &man.dtrace.1; subsystem.</para>
-
- <para arch="powerpc">&os; now supports SMP in PowerPC G5
- systems. Note that SMP support on &os;/&arch.powerpc; is
- disabled by default in <filename>GENERIC</filename>
- kernel.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">&os; now supports UltraSPARC IV, IV+, and
- SPARC64 V CPUs.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver has been improved. The history
- buffer can be fully saved/restored in the VESA mode switching
- via a loader tunable
-
<varname>hint.sc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.vesa_mode</varname>.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.tty.4; driver that
- <varname>TIOCSTI</varname> did not work has been fixed. This
- affects applications like &man.mail.1;.</para>
-
- <para arch="amd64,i386">An x86 real mode emulator based on
- OpenBSD's x86emu implementation has been added to improve real
- mode BIOS call support on both &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64;.
- The &man.atkbdc.4;, &man.dpms.4;, vesa(4), &man.vga.4; driver
- now use this emulator and work on the both platforms.</para>
-
- <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; virtualization container can work
- with &man.sctp.4; now. Note that the VIMAGE is not enabled by
- default in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
- <para>The VIMAGE &man.jail.8; now supports
- <varname>ip4.saddrsel</varname>,
- <varname>ip4.nosaddrsel</varname>,
- <varname>ip6.saddrsel</varname>, and
- <varname>ip6.nosaddrsel</varname> to control whether to use
- source address selection or the primary jail address for
- unbound outgoing connections. The default value is to use
- source address selection.</para>
+ <para arch="ia64" revision="209326">The maximum number of pages
+ used for DMA bounce buffer pool has been increased from 256 to
+ 1024.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="209765">The default value of
+ <varname>kern.hz</varname> has been increased from 100 to
+ 1000.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="209767">The SMP kernel now works on
+ MPC7400-based Apple desktop machines such as
+ PowerMac3,3.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="211593">&os;/powerpc now supports
+ DMA bounce buffer which is required on systems with larger RAM
+ than 4GB.</para>
+
+ <para arch="mips" revision="215938">&os;/mips support has been
+ improved. It now supports SMP on a SWARM with a dual-core
+ Sibyte processor.</para>
+
+ <para arch="mips">&os;/mips now supports Netlogic Microsystems'
+ XLR and XLS multi-core processor families.</para>
+
+ <para arch="sparc64" revision="215598">&os;/sparc64 now supports
+ reservation-based physical memory allocation which provides
+ better performance.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64" revision="214620">&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
+ <quote>kmem_map too small</quote> panic which often occurs
+ when using ZFS.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214621">CPU topology detection
+ for Intel CPUs has been improved.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">ACPI suspend/resume
+ functionality support has been improved.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215513">&os; kernel now
+ supports <function>kern_fpu_enter()</function> and
+ <function>kern_fpu_leave()</function> KPIs which allow the
+ kernel subsystems to use XMM register files used in Intel SSE
+ (Streaming SIMD Extensions).</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215006">The &man.acpi.4;
+ driver now uses ACPI Reset Register capability by default only
+ when a flag in the FADT which indicates it is available. This
+ behavior was controlled by a &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>hw.acpi.handle_reboot</varname> and the default value
+ was always set to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64" revision="215521">The &man.acpi.4;
+ driver now supports new loader tunables
+ <varname>hw.acpi.install_interface</varname> and
+ <varname>hw.acpi.remove_interface</varname>. For more
+ details, see &man.acpi.4; manual page.</para>
+
+ <para revision="209788">The &man.alq.9; support has been
+ improved. The <function>alq_writen()</function> and
+ <function>alq_getn()</function> KPIs have been extended to
+ support variable length messages, which is enabled at ALQ
+ creation time depending on the arguments passed to
+ <function>alq_open()</function>. Also, the
+ <literal>ALQ_NOACTIVATE</literal> and
+ <literal>ALQ_ORDERED</literal> flags have been added to allow
+ ALQ consumers to have more control over I/O scheduling and
+ resource acquisition respectively. These extensions are fully
+ backward compatible.</para>
+
+ <para revision="209783">The &man.alq.9; support is now provided
+ as a kernel module <filename>alq.ko</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="209692">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now
+ supports an optional delay in <command>reset</command> and
+ <command>reboot</command> commands. This allows an
+ administrator to break the system into debugger and trigger
+ automatic textdump when an unattended panic occurs.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212230">The &man.ddb.8; kernel debugger now
+ supports a <command>show cdev</command> command. This
+ displays the list of all created cdev's, consisting of devfs
+ node name and struct cdev address.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214326">The &os; <filename>GENERIC</filename>
+ kernel is now compiled with <option>KDB</option> and
+ <option>KDB_TRACE</option> options. From 8.2-RELEASE the
+ kernel supports displaying a stack trace on panic by using
+ &man.stack.9; facility with no debugger backend like
+ &man.ddb.8;. Note that this does not change the default
+ behaviors of the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel on
+ panic.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213554,213556,213560">The following
+ &man.sysctl.8; variables are also now loader tunables:
+ <varname>vm.kmem_size</varname>,
+ <varname>vm.kmem_size_max</varname>, and
+ <varname>vm.kmem_size_min</varname>,
+ <varname>debug.kdb.stop_cpus</varname>,
+ <varname>debug.trace_on_panic</varname>, and
+ <varname>kern.sync_on_panic</varname>. Also, new
+ &man.sysctl.8; variables <varname>vm.kmem_map_size</varname>
+ for the current kmem map size and
+ <varname>vm.kmem_map_free</varname> for largest contiguous
+ free range in kmem map, <varname>vfs.ncsizefactor</varname>
+ for size factor for namecache, and
+ <varname>vfs.ncnegfactor</varname> for ratio of negative
+ namecache entries have been added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212427">The &os; &man.memguard.9; framework has
+ been improved to make it able to detect use-after-free of
+ allocated memories over a longer time. For more details, see
+ &man.memguard.9; manual page.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214756"><literal>PT_LWPINFO</literal> request to
+ obtain information about the kernel thread that caused the
+ traced process to stop in the &man.ptrace.2; process tracing
+ and debugging facility has been improved. It now reports
+ system call entry and leave events, as well as availability of
+ <varname>siginfo_t</varname> accompanying the reported
+ signal.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214254">The &os; &man.crypto.4; framework
+ (opencrypto) now supports XTS-AES (XEX-TCB-CTS, or XEX-based
+ Tweaked Code Book mode with CipherText Stealing), which is
+ defined in IEEE Std. 1619-2007.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64" revision="215788">Xen HVM support in
+ &os;/amd64 kernel has been improved. For more details, see
+ &man.xen.4; manual page.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="214784">The qpi(4) pseudo bus
+ driver has been added. This supports extra PCI buses on Intel
+ QPI chipsets where various hardware such as memory controllers
+ for each socket is connected.</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para arch="pc98">The <filename>boot2</filename> bootcode has
- been reimplemented based on the &arch.i386 counterpart. It
- now supports ELF binary, UFS2 file system, and larger number
- of slices.</para>
-
- <para arch="ia64">The EFI <filename>loader</filename> program
- now supports a command-line option <option>-dev
- <replaceable>currdev</replaceable></option> to specify the
- default value of <varname>currdev</varname>. This option
- can be set by the EFI boot manager.</para>
-
- <para arch="powerpc">The &man.loader.8; program now supports
- U-Boot storage.</para>
-
- <para arch="i386">The algorithm the &man.loader.8; uses has
- been improved to choose a memory range for its heap when
- using a range above 1MB. This fixes a symptom that the
- loader fails to load a kernel.</para>
-
- <para>A kernel environment variable
- <varname>vfs.root.mountfrom</varname> now supports
- multiple elements for root file system in a space-separated
- list. Each list element will be tried in order and the
- first available one will be mounted.</para>
-
- <para>The <filename>zfsloader</filename> has been added. This
- is a separate &man.zfs.8; enabled loader. Note that a ZFS
- bootcode (<filename>zfsboot</filename> or
- <filename>gptzfsboot</filename>) need to be installed
- to use this new loader.</para>
-
- <para>The <filename>zfsboot</filename> and
- <filename>gptzfsboot</filename> bootcode now fully support
- 64-bit LBAs for disk addresses. This allows booting from
- large volumes.</para>
+ <para revision="213994">&os; now fully supports GPT (GUID
+ Partition Table). Checksums of primary header and primary
+ partition table are verified properly now.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="215919,215920">Memory
+ management issues that prevented &os; OpenFirmware loader
+ and netbooting from working have been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212717">The &man.pxeboot.8; now uses NFS
+ version 3 instead of version 2 by default.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
- <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>adb</filename> driver now
- supports for interpreting taps on ADB touchpads as a button
- click.</para>
-
- <para>The amdsbwd(4) driver for AMD SB600/SB7xx watchdog
- timer has been added.</para>
-
- <para arch="powerpc">The <filename>apt</filename> driver for
- the Apple Touchpad present on MacBook has been added to
- <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The epic(4) driver for the front panel
- LEDs in Sun Fire V215/V245 has been added.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.ipmi.4; driver that caused incorrect
- watchdog timer setting has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para arch="sparc64">The &man.pci.4; driver now supports a
- JBus to PCIe bridge (called as <quote>Fire</quote>) found in
- the Sun Fire V215/V245 and Sun Ultra 25/45 machines.</para>
-
- <para arch="powerpc">The &man.smu.4; driver now provides
- thermal management and monitoring features. This allows fan
- control and thermal monitoring on SMU-based Apple G5
- machines, as well as an &man.led.4; interface to control the
- sleep LED.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.tnt4882.4; driver for IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus now
- supports National Instruments TNT5004 chip.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.uart.4; driver now supports NetMos NM9865
- family of Serial/Parallel ports.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.uep.4; driver for USB onscreen touch panel
- from eGalax has been added. This driver is supported by
- <filename>x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>A bug in the &man.uftdi.4; driver that can allow to send
- a zero length packet has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.usb.4; subsystem now reports &man.devd.8;
- <literal>notify</literal> events with the device properties
- instead of <literal>attach</literal> events. The following is an
- example entry of &man.devd.conf.5; to match a &man.umass.4;
- device with a SCSI subclass and BBB protocol:</para>
-
- <programlisting>notify 100 {
- match "system" "USB";
- match "subsystem" "INTERFACE";
- match "type" "ATTACH";
- match "intclass" "0x08";
- match "intsubclass" "0x06";
- match "intprotocol" "0x50";
- action "/path/to/command -flag";
-};</programlisting>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="215633">The &man.aesni.4;
+ driver has been added. This supports AES accelerator on
+ Intel CPUs and accelerates AES operations for
+ &man.crypto.4;.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="210476">The &man.aibs.4;
+ driver has been added. This supports the hardware sensors
+ in ASUS motherboards and replaces the &man.acpi.aiboost.4;
+ driver.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="211914">The &man.coretemp.4;
+ driver now supports Xeon 5500/5600 series.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="215694">&os;/powerpc now
+ supports the I2C bus in Apple System Management Unit.</para>
+
+ <para arch="powerpc" revision="215695">A device driver that
+ supports CPU temperature sensors on PowerMac 11,2 has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215482">The &man.ehci.4;, &man.ohci.4;, and
+ &man.uhci.4; driver now support LOW speed BULK transfer
+ mode.</para>
+
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="209952">The &man.ichwd.4;
+ driver now supports Intel NM10 Express chipset watchdog
+ timer.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215036">The &man.tpm.4; driver, which supports
+ Trusted Platform Module has been added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215944">The xhci(4) driver, which supports
+ Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) and USB 3.0, has
+ been added.</para>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
- <para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver now supports LCD
- brightness control notify handler.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.acpi.sony.4; helper driver now supports
- default display brightness, wired LAN power, and bass
- gain.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.agp.4; driver has been improved. It includes
- a fix for aperture size calculation issue which prevents
- some graphics cards from working.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now allows AD1981HD codecs
- to use playback mixer.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.snd.hda.4; driver now supports multichannel
- (4.0 and 7.1) playback support. The 5.1 mode support is
- disabled now due to unidentified synchronization problem.
- Devices which supports the 7.1 mode can handle the 5.1
- operation via software upmix done by &man.sound.4;. Note
- that stereo stream is no longer duplicated to all
- ports.</para>
+ <para>The &os; Linux emulation subsystem now supports the
+ <application>video4linux</application> API. This requires
+ native <application>video4linux</application> hardware
+ drivers such as the ones provided by <filename
+ role="ports">multimedia/pwcbsd</filename> and <filename
+ role="ports">multimedia/webcamd</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215483">MIDI input buffer size in the
+ &man.uaudio.4; driver has been changed. This fixes a
+ problem where the input appears several seconds
+ late.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215484">An issue in the &man.uaudio.4;
+ driver that prevented some USB audio devices from working
+ has been fixed.</para>
</sect4>
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para>The &man.ath.4; driver now supports Atheros
- AR9285-based devices.</para>
+ <para revision="212021">The &man.alc.4; driver now supports
+ Atheros AR8151/AR8152 PCIe Gigabit/Fast Ethernet
+ controllers.</para>
- <para>A bug in the &man.ath.4; driver which causes a problem
- of AR5416-based chipsets including AR9285 has been fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="215003">A bug in the &man.alc.4; driver was
+ fixed that could lead to a system freeze when the system
+ was booted without a cable plugged in. This symptom was
+ found in AR8132 on EEE PC.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212011">The TX interrupt moderation timer in
+ the &man.alc.4; driver has been reduced from 50ms to 1ms.
+ The 50ms timer resulted in a poor UDP performance.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214297,214298,214301">The &man.axe.4; driver
+ has been improved for stability and better performance on
+ the TX packet rate.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214997">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports
+ BCM5718 x2 PCI Express dual-port gigabit Ethernet
+ controller family. This family is the successor to the
+ BCM5714/BCM5715 family and supports IPv4/IPv6 checksum
+ offloading, TSO, VLAN hardware tagging, jumbo frames,
+ MSI/MSIX, IOV, RSS and TSS. The current version of the
+ driver supports all hardware features except IOV and
+ RSS/TSS.</para>
- <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports BCM5761, BCM5784, and
- BCM57780-based devices.</para>
+ <para revision="211367">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which
+ prevented TSO in BCM57780 from working has been
+ fixed.</para>
- <para>The &man.bge.4; driver now supports TSO (TCP
- Segmentation Offloading) on BCM5755 or newer
- controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="214700">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that
+ could wrongly disable the TX checksum offloading feature
+ as well when one tries to disable only the RX checksum
+ offloading has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214714">Some improvements for reliability of
+ the &man.bge.4; driver with BCM5906 controller has been
+ made.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214698">The &man.bge.4; driver now supports
+ hardware MAC statistics in controller's internal memory
+ for BCM5705 or newer Broadcom controllers. These counters
+ can be accessed via &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats.*</varname>
+ and provide useful information to diagnose driver
+ issues.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213109">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
+ UDP datagrams with checksum value <literal>0</literal>
+ when TX UDP checksum offloading is enabled. The checksum
+ offloading can be enabled by using the following loader
+ tunable:</para>
+
+
<programlisting>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.forced_udpcsum</programlisting>
+
+ <para revision="213593">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that
+ could lead to poor performance on a system with more than
+ 4 GB RAM has been fixed. The cause was that all of
+ Broadcom controllers except the BCM5755 and later have a
+ bug in 4 GB-boundary DMA processing and used the bounce
+ buffer in an inefficient way.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212275">The &man.bwi.4; driver, which supports
+ Broadcom BCM430* and BCM431* family Wireless Ethernet
+ controllers, has been added. This is not compiled into
+ the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because there are
+ some problems. The kernel module
+ <filename>if_bwi.ko</filename> is available and can be
+ loaded without recompiling the kernel to enable this
+ driver.</para>
- <para>A long-standing bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which
- was related to ASF heartbeat sending has been
+ <para revision="212274">A bug in the &man.bwn.4; driver that
+ prevented WPA authentication from working has been
fixed.</para>
- <para>A long-standing stability issue of the &man.bce.4; and
- &man.bge.4; driver due to a hardware bug in its DMA
- handling when the system has more than 4GB memory has been
- fixed. This applies to BCM5714, BCM5715, and BCM5708
- controllers.</para>
+ <para revision="215499">A bug in the &man.cdce.4; driver has
+ been fixed.</para>
- <para>A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that incorrectly
- enabled TSO on BCM5754/BCM5754M controllers has been
- fixed.</para>
+ <para revision="211848">The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports
+ the following new &man.sysctl.8; variables:
+ <varname>hw.cxgb.nfilters</varname> sets the maximum
+ number of entries in the hardware filter table,
+
<varname>dev.cxgbc.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.pkt_timestamp</varname>
+ provides packet timestamp instead of connection hash, and
+ <varname>dev.cxgbc.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.core_clock</varname>
+ provides the core clock frequency in kHz.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version
+ 7.1.9.</para>
+
+ <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version
+ 2.0.7.</para>
+
+ <para revision="209309">The &man.em.4; and &man.igb.4; drivers
+ now provide statistics counters as &man.sysctl.8; MIB
+ objects.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211241">The &man.em.4; and &man.igb.4; drivers
+ now support the &man.led.4; interface via
+ <filename>/dev/led/em<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
+ and
+ <filename>/dev/led/igb<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
+ for identification LED control. The following command
+ line makes the LED blink on <literal>em0</literal>:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; echo f2 > /dev/led/em0</screen>
+
+ <para revision="212150">The &man.epair.4; virtual Ethernet
+ interface driver now supports explicit UP/DOWN linkstate.
+ This fixes an issue when it is used with the &man.carp.4;
+ protocol.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214717">The &man.fxp.4; driver now supports
+ TSO over VLAN on i82550 and i82551 controllers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="210673">The &man.iwn.4; driver now supports
+ Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series. The firmware has
+ been updated to version 9.221.4.1.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212386">The &man.ixgbe.4;
+ driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
+
+ <para revision="209308,215970,217593">The &man.ixgbe.4;
+ driver has been updated to version 2.3.8. It now supports
+ 82599, better interrupt handling, hardware assist to LRO,
+ VM SRIOV interface, and so on.</para>
+
+ <para
+
revision="211379,215881,215890,2105894,216002,216023,216029,216031,216033">The
+ &man.miibus.4; has been rewritten for the generic IEEE
+ 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support. The
+ &man.alc.4;, &man.bge.4;, &man.bce.4;, &man.cas.4;,
+ &man.fxp.4;, &man.gem.4;, &man.jme.4;, &man.msk.4;,
+ &man.nfe.4;, &man.re.4;, &man.stge.4;, and &man.xl.4;
+ drivers along with atphy(4), bmtphy(4), brgphy(4),
+ e1000phy(4), gentbi(4), inphy(4), ip1000phy(4), jmphy(4),
+ nsgphy(4), nsphyter(4), and &man.rgephy.4; have been
+ updated to support flow control via this facility.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212386">The &man.mwlfw.4;
+ driver is now also provided as a kernel module.</para>
+
+ <para revision="216054">A bug in the &man.mxge.4; driver
+ that prevented TSO from working has been fixed.</para>
- <para>A bug in the &man.if.bridge.4; driver has been fixed.
- The MTU was set based on the firstly-added member even if
- the addition failed.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports
- <varname>SIOCSIFMTU</varname> ioctl. For example,
- <command>ifconfig bridge0 mtu 1280</command> can change
- the MTU of <literal>bridge0</literal> to
- <literal>1280</literal>. Changing the MTU is allowed only
- when all members have the same MTU value.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.bwn.4; driver for Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets
- has been added.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver has been updated to T3
- firmware 7.8.0.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.cxgb.4; driver now supports hardware
- filtering based on inspection of L2/L3/L4 headers.
- Filtering based on source IP address, destination IP
- address, source port number, destination port number,
- 802.1q VLAN frame tag, UDP, TCP, and MAC address is
- possible. The configuration can be done by the
- cxgbtool(8) utility. Note that cxgbtool(8) is in
- <filename>src/usr.sbin/cxgbtool</filename> but not
- compiled by default.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been updated to version
- 7.0.5.</para>
-
- <para>The et(4) driver now supports MSI and Tx checksum
- offloading of IPv4, TCP, and UDP.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.fxp.4; driver now exports the hardware MAC
- statistics via sysctl variables.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.igb.4; driver has been updated to version
- 1.9.5.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.iwn.4; driver has been updated. This
- includes various improvements and bugfixes regarding RF
- switch, bgscan support, suspend/resume support, locking
- issue, and more. The line <literal>device iwnfw</literal>
- in the kernel configuration file will include all firmware
- images.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.ixgbe.4; driver has been updated to version
- 2.2.0.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.msk.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>It now supports Marvell Yukon 88E8042, 88E8057,
- 88E8059 (Yukon Optima) devices and DGE-560SX (Yukon
- XL).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>A rudimentary interrupt moderation with
- programmable countdown timer register has been
- implemented. The default parameter of the holdoff
- time is 100us and this can be changed via sysctl
- variable
-
<varname>dev.mskc.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>.
- Note that the interrupt moderation is shared resource
- on a dual-port controllers and it is impossible to use
- separate interrupt moderation values for each
- port.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>A stability issue has been fixed. A heavy RX
- traffic while rebooting is in progress could prevent
- the system from working.</para>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>The &man.mxge.4; driver has been updated to firmware
- version 1.4.50 from Myricom.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.re.4; driver no longer performs an
- unnecessary interface up/down during getting IP address
- via DHCP.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.re.4; driver now uses <literal>2048</literal>
- as PCIe Maximum Read Request Size. This improves bulk
- transfer performance.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.run.4; driver for Ralink
- RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB 802.11agn devices has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para>The sge(4) driver for Silicon Integrated Systems
- SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet has been added. This
- supports TSO and TSO over VLAN.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.ste.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the
- interfaces has been eliminated.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>RX interrupt moderation with single shot timer has
- been implemented. The default parameter of the
- moderation time is 150us and this can be changed via
- sysctl variable
-
<varname>dev.ste.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_rx_mod</varname>.
- Setting it 0 effectively disables the RX interrupt
- moderation feature.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>The tsec(4) driver now supports &man.altq.4;.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.u3g.4; driver has been improved and now works
- with ZTE MF636, Option Gi0322, Globetrotter GE40x, and
- Novatel MC950D.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.uhso.4; driver for Option HSDPA USB devices
- has been added. A new &man.uhsoctl.1; userland utility
- can be used to initiate and close the WAN
- connection.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.vge.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The DMA handling has been improved.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Wake-On-LAN is now supported.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Unnecessary reinitialization of the
- interfaces has been eliminated.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Hardware MAC statistics are now supported via sysctl
variables
-
<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.stats</varname>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Interrupt moderation with single shot timer and
- scheme supported by VT61xx controllers have been
- implemented. The default parameters are tuned to
- generate interrupt less than 8k per second, and these
- parameters can be changed via sysctl variables
-
<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.int_holdoff</varname>,
-
<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.rx_coal_pkt</varname>,
- and
-
<varname>dev.vge.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.tx_coal_pkt</varname>.
- Note that an up/down cycle is needed to make a
- parameter change take effect.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ <para revision="215456">The &man.nfe.4; driver now supports
+ WoL (Wake on LAN).</para>
- <para>The &man.urtw.4; driver has been improved and now
- supports RTL8187B-based devices.</para>
+ <para revision="215218">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ 64-bit DMA addressing for RTL810xE/RTL8168/RTL8111 PCIe
+ controllers.</para>
- <para>The &os; Xen netfront driver has been improved in
- stability and performance.</para>
+ <para revision="215405">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ hardware interrupt moderation of TX completion interrupts
+ on RTL8169/RTL8168 controllers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211377">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports WoL
+ (Wake on LAN) on RTL8139B or newer controllers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215222">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports
+ reading hardware statistics counters by setting a
+ &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>dev.rl.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname>
+ to <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212039">The &man.rl.4; driver now supports a
+ device hint to change a way of register access. Although
+ some newer RTL8139 controllers support memory-mapped
+ register access, it is difficult to detect the support
+ automatically. For this reason the driver uses I/O
+ mapping by default and provides the following device hint.
+ If it is set to <literal>0</literal>, the driver uses
+ memory mapping for register access.</para>
+
+
<programlisting>hint.rl.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="0"</programlisting>
+
+ <para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="214407">The &man.rl.4; driver has been
+ improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX
+ performance under high RX load.</para>
+
+ <para revision="215216">A bug in the &man.sk.4; driver has
+ been fixed. It did not program the station address for
+ Yukon controllers and overriding the station address with
+ &man.ifconfig.8; was not possible.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211359">The &man.sk.4; driver now disables TX
+ checksum offloading by default. This is because some
+ revisions of the Yukon controller generate corrupted frames.
+ The checksum offloading can be enabled manually by using
+ <option>txcsum</option> option in the &man.ifconfig.8;
+ utility.</para>
+
+ <para revision="212468,213612,213628">The &man.sis.4; driver
+ now works on all supported platforms. Some stability and
+ performance issues have also been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213637">The &man.sis.4; driver now supports
+ WoL (Wake on LAN) on NS DP8315 controller.</para>
+
+ <para revision="213626">A tunable
+ <varname>dev.sis.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.manual_pad</varname>
+ for the &man.sis.4; driver has been added. This controls
+ whether padding with 0x00 for short frames is done by CPU,
+ rather than the controller. The reason why this tunable
+ has been added is that NS DP83815/DP83816 pads them with
+ 0xff though RFC 1042 specifies it should be 0x00. The
+ tunable is disabled by default, which means padding with
+ 0xff is used because padding with 0x00 by software needs
+ extra CPU cycles. Setting a non-zero value enables the
+ software padding.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211357">The &man.ste.4; driver now supports a
+ device hint to change a way of register access. Although
+ it uses memory-mapped register access by default, some old
+ IC Plus Corp (formerly Sundace) controllers are found
+ unstable. The following device hint makes the driver use
+ I/O mapping for register access:</para>
+
+
<programlisting>hint.ste.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="1"</programlisting>
+
+ <para revision="213120">The &man.xl.4; driver now supports
+ WoL (Wake on LAN). Note that not all controllers support
+ this functionality and some need an additional remote
+ wakeup cable.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para>&os; flowtable now supports IPv6. This is for per-CPU
- caching flows as a means of accelerating L3 and L2 lookups
- as well as providing stateful load balancing when ECMP
- (Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing) is enabled by <option>option
- RADIX_MPATH</option>.</para>
-
- <para>A new capability flag <literal>LINKSTATE</literal> has
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