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.</para>
- <para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
+ <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os;
kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
<para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@
scheduler is now the default process scheduler
in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
+ <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">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.</para>
+
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization support</title>
<para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8;
is included
@@ -208,6 +213,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al
&man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
OpenBSD.</para>
+ <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now
+ part of the GENERIC kernel.</para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
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