Author: rodrigc
Date: Sun Dec 22 11:41:26 2013
New Revision: 259718
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259718
Log:
Mention virtio support.
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
11:11:23 2013 (r259717)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sun Dec 22
11:41:26 2013 (r259718)
@@ -125,6 +125,14 @@
support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
(e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
+ <para revision="227652">&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;.</para>
+
<para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
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