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Reorganize the "Kernel Changes" section, including:

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- Add "Hardware Support" section and move device driver-related
	  items there.
	- Move "Multimedia Support" and "Network Interface Support" into
	  the "Hardware Support" section as sub-sections.
	- Move Netgraph-related items to "Network Protocols".

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has been added. This improves the performance of SMP machines
and is enabled by default on the i386.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
CF-R3.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
video output switching.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
device can wake the system.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
<varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
<para>The &man.bus.dma.9; interface now supports transparently honoring
the alignment and boundary constraints in the DMA tag
when loading buffers, and <function>bus_dmamap_load()</function>
@ -273,43 +242,11 @@
by setting a sysctl <varname>vm.old_contigmalloc</varname>. More details
can be found in the &man.contigmalloc.9; manual page.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
synchronous serial adapters.
</para>
<para>The &man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
(DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
driver.</para>
<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
MTU size.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
This can be reactivated by setting the special link
option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para>The <varname>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range</varname>
loader tunable has been removed.</para>
@ -399,10 +336,6 @@
Linux binaries on amd64 has been added. This feature is enabled with the
<literal>COMPAT_LINUX32</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
(Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>A new kernel option <literal>MAC_STATIC</literal> which
disables internal MAC Framework synchronization protecting against
dynamic load and unload of MAC policies, has been added.</para>
@ -472,54 +405,39 @@
<para arch="i386,amd64">A loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname>
has been enabled by default.</para>
<para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
<para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
(RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
been commented out for a long time.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">A new kernel option
<literal>PREEMPTION</literal> has been added.
This allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted
by higher priority threads. It helps with interactivity and
allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
<para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree,
in order to support per-class variables in addition to
per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname>
is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is
possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para>
<para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
<para>A sysctl <varname>kern.sched.name</varname>
which has the name of the scheduler currently in use,
has been added, and the <varname>kern.quantum</varname> sysctl
has been moved to <varname>kern.sched.quantum</varname>
for consistency.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
been updated.
<para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
<note>
<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
This can be disabled by setting the tunable
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler.
Note that the conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used
@ -536,13 +454,6 @@
kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make
more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para>
<para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
control and output.</para>
<para>A linear search algorithm used in
&man.vm.map.findspace.9; has been replaced with
an O(log n) algorithm built into the map entry splay tree.
@ -555,25 +466,6 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
require recompiling after this change.</para>
<para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
<devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
<command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
<devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
<para>The &os; dynamic and static linker now support Thread Local Storage (TLS),
a <application>GCC</application> feature which supports
a <literal>__thread</literal> modifier
@ -604,13 +496,118 @@
kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
<option>-b</option> option.</para>
<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
CDROM drives.</para>
<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
CF-R3.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
video output switching.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
device can wake the system.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
<varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
synchronous serial adapters.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
(DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
driver.</para>
<para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
<para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
(RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
been commented out for a long time.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
<para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
<para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
<para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
control and output.</para>
<para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
including
the <devicename>asc</devicename> driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
@ -629,150 +626,152 @@
<devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename>
has also been removed.</para>
<para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
</sect3>
<para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
require recompiling after this change.</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
<option>-b</option> option.</para>
<para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
CDROM drives.</para>
<para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
<para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
<literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
and several sound cards, has been removed.
More details can be found in related manual pages:
&man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
&man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
&man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
&man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
</sect3>
<para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
of default values for mixer channels.
Note that currently the device driver's name used in
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
manual page.</para>
</sect4>
<sect3 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
Open Firmware.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
Open Firmware.</para>
<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
<para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
<option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the
<literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
<option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
(Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
(Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
MTU size.</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
(LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
This can be reactivated by setting the special link
option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
&windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
(&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
and is designed principally for
Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
(LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
(Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
<para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
&windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
(&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
and is designed principally for
Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
lines, has been added.</para>
<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
Netgraph nodes.</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
been updated.
<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
chipset.</para>
<note>
<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
This can be disabled by setting the tunable
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
the VIA Networking Technologies
VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
has been added.</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
chipset.</para>
<para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
the VIA Networking Technologies
VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
<para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
(&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
&man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
now also support this capability and it can be controlled
via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
<para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
(&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
&man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
now also support this capability and it can be controlled
via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
@ -841,6 +840,28 @@
This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to
different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
lines, has been added.</para>
<para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
Netgraph nodes.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para><literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> support is now always
compiled into the kernel, and the associated kernel compile
options have been removed. All of the packet filter subsystems
@ -855,6 +876,16 @@
in RFC 1989, allows PPP to keep track of the quality
of a running connection. &merged;</para>
<para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
<devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
<command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
<devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
@ -901,7 +932,6 @@
2018 have been added. This improves TCP performance over
connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with
the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable</varname>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -934,45 +964,6 @@
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
&man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
1e and 2 machines.</para>
<para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
do not have the
<literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
in the superblock.</para>
<para>A bug in &man.geom.4; that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
cases has been fixed.</para>
@ -1036,18 +1027,49 @@
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;
has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
&man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
1e and 2 machines.</para>
<para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
do not have the
<literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
in the superblock.</para>
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
server.</para>
<para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
<para>The <literal>MSDOSFS_LARGE</literal> kernel option
has been added to support for FAT32 file systems bigger
than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It
@ -1057,37 +1079,14 @@
with less than 1 million files and so on.
Exporting these large file systems
over NFS is not supported.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
<para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
<literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
and several sound cards, has been removed.
More details can be found in related manual pages:
&man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
&man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
&man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
&man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
<para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
of default values for mixer channels.
Note that currently the device driver's name used in
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
manual page.</para>
<para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
</sect3>
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@ -229,37 +229,6 @@
has been added. This improves the performance of SMP machines
and is enabled by default on the i386.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
CF-R3.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
video output switching.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
device can wake the system.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
<varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
<para>The &man.bus.dma.9; interface now supports transparently honoring
the alignment and boundary constraints in the DMA tag
when loading buffers, and <function>bus_dmamap_load()</function>
@ -273,43 +242,11 @@
by setting a sysctl <varname>vm.old_contigmalloc</varname>. More details
can be found in the &man.contigmalloc.9; manual page.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
synchronous serial adapters.
</para>
<para>The &man.devfs.5; path rules now work correctly on
directories.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
(DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
driver.</para>
<para>The &man.getvfsent.3; API has been removed.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
MTU size.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
This can be reactivated by setting the special link
option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para>The <varname>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range</varname>
loader tunable has been removed.</para>
@ -399,10 +336,6 @@
Linux binaries on amd64 has been added. This feature is enabled with the
<literal>COMPAT_LINUX32</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
(Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>A new kernel option <literal>MAC_STATIC</literal> which
disables internal MAC Framework synchronization protecting against
dynamic load and unload of MAC policies, has been added.</para>
@ -472,54 +405,39 @@
<para arch="i386,amd64">A loader tunable <varname>debug.mpsafevm</varname>
has been enabled by default.</para>
<para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
<para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
(RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
been commented out for a long time.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">A new kernel option
<literal>PREEMPTION</literal> has been added.
This allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted
by higher priority threads. It helps with interactivity and
allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
<para>A devclass level has been added to the dev sysctl tree,
in order to support per-class variables in addition to
per-device variables. This means that <varname>dev.foo0.bar</varname>
is now called <varname>dev.foo.0.bar</varname>, and it is
possible to to have <varname>dev.foo.bar</varname> as well.</para>
<para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
<para>A sysctl <varname>kern.sched.name</varname>
which has the name of the scheduler currently in use,
has been added, and the <varname>kern.quantum</varname> sysctl
has been moved to <varname>kern.sched.quantum</varname>
for consistency.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
been updated.
<para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
<note>
<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
This can be disabled by setting the tunable
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>The ULE scheduler has been added as an additional scheduler.
Note that the conventional one, which is called 4BSD, is still used
@ -536,13 +454,6 @@
kernel locking continues, the scheduler will be able to make
more efficient use of the available parallel resources.</para>
<para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
control and output.</para>
<para>A linear search algorithm used in
&man.vm.map.findspace.9; has been replaced with
an O(log n) algorithm built into the map entry splay tree.
@ -555,25 +466,6 @@
<!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword-->
<para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
require recompiling after this change.</para>
<para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
<devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
<command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
<devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
<para>The &os; dynamic and static linker now support Thread Local Storage (TLS),
a <application>GCC</application> feature which supports
a <literal>__thread</literal> modifier
@ -604,13 +496,118 @@
kernel with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (as in the <filename
role="package">lang/icc</filename> port).</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
<option>-b</option> option.</para>
<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
CDROM drives.</para>
<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
</sect3>
<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Platform-Specific Hardware Support</title>
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.asus.4; driver has been added
to use ACPI-controlled hardware features, such as hot keys and
LEDs on ASUSTek laptops.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.panasonic.4; driver has been added
to support hot keys of Panasonic laptops. It now supports
Let's note (or Toughbook, outside Japan) CF-R1N, CF-R2A, and
CF-R3.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.toshiba.4; driver has been added
to use Toshiba's Hardware Control Interface to manipulate
certain hardware features on Toshiba laptops, such as
video output switching.</para>
<para>The &man.acpi.video.4; driver has been added to provide
control display switching and backlight brightness using the
ACPI Video Extensions.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver now supports
per-device sysctls (<varname>dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_lid0.wake</varname>,
for instance) to allow users to set whether or not a given
device can wake the system.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.acpi.4; driver will now
be disabled automatically when the machine has a well-known broken BIOS.
This behavior can be overridden by setting the loader tunable
<varname>hint.acpi.0.disabled</varname> to <literal>0</literal>.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &man.agp.4; driver now supports the AMD64 graphics
aperture relocation table (GART).</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.ctau.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau
synchronous serial adapters. This driver was known for a long time as
<quote>ct</quote> in its previous life outside the &os; source tree. &merged;
<note>
<para>The driver name has changed, but the network interface still
has the <devicename>ct</devicename> name.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.cp.4; driver has been added for Cronyx Tau-PCI
synchronous serial adapters.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>dgb</devicename>
(DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been
removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver,
which supports all the hardware of the <devicename>dgb</devicename>
driver.</para>
<para>The &man.nmdm.4; driver has been rewritten to improve its reliability.</para>
<para>The <devicename>raid(4)</devicename> driver
(RAIDframe disk driver from NetBSD) has been removed.
It is currently non-functional, and would require some amount of work
to make it work under the &man.geom.4; API in 5-CURRENT.</para>
<para>An entry of the &man.pcic.4; driver has been removed from a
kernel configuration file for <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel because
this is no longer maintained. The entry had actually
been commented out for a long time.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.psm.4; driver and &man.moused.8;
now support the Synaptics TouchPad.</para>
<para arch="i386">The entropy device &man.random.4; now
supports a hardware random number generator (RNG)
in the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.sab.4; driver now supports the
<literal>BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</literal> kernel option.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>sx</devicename> driver,
which supports Specialix I/O8+ and I/O4+
intelligent multiport serial controllers, has been added.</para>
<para arch="alpha,amd64,i386">For the &man.uart.4; device,
the <varname>hw.uart.console</varname> and
<varname>hw.uart.dbgport</varname> kernel environment variables
have been added. They can be used to select a serial console and
debug port respectively, as well as the attributes.</para>
<para>The &man.ubser.4; device driver has been added to support
BWCT console management serial adapters.</para>
<para>&man.ucycom.4; driver has been added for
the Cypress CY7C637xx and CY7C640/1xx families of USB to RS232 bridges,
such as the one found in the DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
receiver (which is the only device currently supported by this driver).
This driver is not complete because there is no support yet for flow
control and output.</para>
<para arch="i386">Several old drivers for ISA cards have been removed,
including
the <devicename>asc</devicename> driver for GI1904-based hand scanners,
@ -629,150 +626,152 @@
<devicename>sasc</devicename> and <devicename>sgsc</devicename>
has also been removed.</para>
<para>A new sysctl, <varname>kern.always_console_output</varname>,
has been added. It makes output from the kernel go to the console despite
the use of <varname>TIOCCONS</varname>.</para>
</sect3>
<para>The device driver infrastructure (as well as many drivers)
have been updated. Among the changes: Many more drivers now use
automatically-assigned major numbers (instead of the old static
major numbers). Enhanced functions to support cloning of
pseudo-devices. Several changes to the driver API, including a
new <varname>d_version</varname> field in <varname>struct
cdevsw</varname>. Note that third-party device drivers will
require recompiling after this change.</para>
<sect3 id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<sect4 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para arch="i386">A serial console-capable version of
<filename>boot0</filename> has been added. It can be written
to a disk using &man.boot0cfg.8; and specifying
<filename>/boot/boot0sio</filename> as the argument to the
<option>-b</option> option.</para>
<para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para arch="i386"><filename>cdboot</filename> now works around a
BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB
CDROM drives.</para>
<para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
<!-- Above this line, order boot loader changes by keyword-->
<para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
<literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
and several sound cards, has been removed.
More details can be found in related manual pages:
&man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
&man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
&man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
&man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
</sect3>
<para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
of default values for mixer channels.
Note that currently the device driver's name used in
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
manual page.</para>
</sect4>
<sect3 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<sect4 id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.arl.4; driver, which supports
Aironet Arlan 655 wireless adapters has been added. &merged;</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
Open Firmware.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports sparc64
Davicom cards that store their MAC address in
Open Firmware.</para>
<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>A short hiccup in the &man.em.4; driver during parameter
reconfiguration, has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
<para>The &man.fwip.4; driver, which supports IP over FireWire has been added.
Note that currently the broadcast channel number is hardwired and
MCAP for multicast channel allocation is not supported.
This driver is intended to conform to the RFC 2734 and RFC 3146
standard for IP over FireWire and eventually replace
the &man.fwe.4; driver.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now uses the device sysctl tree such as
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
<option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
to receive extended Ethernet frames, indicated by the
<literal>VLAN_MTU</literal> interface capability.
It can be toggled from userland with the aid of the
<option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option> options
to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
(Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The <devicename>hea</devicename>
(Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM adapter)
driver has been removed due to breakage. Its functionality
has been subsumed into the &man.en.4; driver.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now natively supports
long frames, so it can be used for &man.vlan.4; with full Ethernet
MTU size.</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
(LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The &man.hme.4; driver now supports
TCP/UDP Transmit/Receive checksum offload.
Since &man.hme.4; does not compensate the checksum
for UDP datagram which can yield to <literal>0x0</literal>,
UDP transmit checksum offload is disabled by default.
This can be reactivated by setting the special link
option <option>link0</option> with &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
<para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
&windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
(&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
and is designed principally for
Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>lmc</devicename>
(LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter) driver has been
removed due to breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The <devicename>loran</devicename>
(Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
<para arch="i386">&os; now provides a binary compatibility layer
for using &microsoft.windows; NDIS drivers for network
adapters under &os;/i386. It includes a relocator/linker for
&windows; <filename>.SYS</filename> files to interface with
the &os; kernel and emulates various parts of the NDIS API
using native &os; kernel functions. This system supports PCI
(&man.pci.4;) and CardBus (&man.cardbus.4;) network devices,
and is designed principally for
Ethernet and wireless network interfaces.
For more information, see the &man.ndis.4; and
&man.ndiscvt.8; manual pages.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
lines, has been added.</para>
<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
Netgraph nodes.</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>A bug that prevents VLAN support in the &man.nge.4; driver
from working has been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.pci.4; bus resource and power management have
been updated.
<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
chipset.</para>
<note>
<para>Although the &man.pci.4; bus power state management
has been enabled by default, it may cause problems on some systems.
This can be disabled by setting the tunable
<varname>hw.pci.do_powerstate</varname> to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
the VIA Networking Technologies
VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
has been added.</para>
<para>Several bugs related to &man.polling.4; support
in the &man.rl.4; driver have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>Several bugs related to multicast and promiscuous mode
handling in the &man.sk.4; driver have been fixed.</para>
<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ste.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.udav.4; driver has been added. It provides
support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Davicom DM9601
chipset.</para>
<para>&man.vge.4; driver, which supports
the VIA Networking Technologies
VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY,
has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver now supports &man.polling.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>The hardware TX checksum support in the &man.xl.4; driver
has been disabled as it does not work correctly and slows down
the transmission rate. &merged;</para>
<para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
(&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
&man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
now also support this capability and it can be controlled
via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
<para>Interface &man.polling.4; support
can now be enabled on a per-interface basis. All of the network drivers that support &man.polling.4;
(&man.dc.4;, &man.fxp.4;, &man.em.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.re.4;,
&man.rl.4;, &man.sis.4;, &man.ste.4;, and &man.vr.4;)
now also support this capability and it can be controlled
via &man.ifconfig.8;. &merged;</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="net-proto">
@ -841,6 +840,28 @@
This allows &man.natd.8; to be bound to
different network interfaces and sharing of load.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.atmllc.4; Netgraph node type, which handles
RFC 1483 ATM LLC encapsulation, has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.hub.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
a simple packet distribution that acts like an Ethernet hub,
has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ng.rfc1490.4; Netgraph node type now supports
Cisco style encapsulation, which is often used alongside
RFC 1490 in frame relay links.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.sppp.4; Netgraph node type, which is a &man.netgraph.4
interface to the original &man.sppp.4 network module for synchronous
lines, has been added.</para>
<para>A new Netgraph method has been added to restore some
behavior lost in the change from 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> style &man.ng.tee.4;
Netgraph nodes.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.vlan.4; Netgraph node type, which supports
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para><literal>PFIL_HOOKS</literal> support is now always
compiled into the kernel, and the associated kernel compile
options have been removed. All of the packet filter subsystems
@ -855,6 +876,16 @@
in RFC 1989, allows PPP to keep track of the quality
of a running connection. &merged;</para>
<para>The pseudo-interface cloning has been updated and
the match function to allow creation of &man.stf.4;
interfaces named <devicename>stf0</devicename>,
<devicename>stf</devicename>, or <devicename>6to4</devicename>.
Note that this breaks backward compatibility; for example,
<command>ifconfig stf</command> now creates
the interface named <devicename>stf</devicename>,
not <devicename>stf0</devicename>, and does not print
<devicename>stf0</devicename> to stdout.</para>
<para>The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC
3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial
congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product
@ -901,7 +932,6 @@
2018 have been added. This improves TCP performance over
connections with heavy packet loss. SACK can be enabled with
the sysctl <varname>net.inet.tcp.sack.enable</varname>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="disks">
@ -934,45 +964,6 @@
<para arch="pc98">A bug of the automatic density selection code
in the &man.fd.4; driver has been fixed.</para>
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
&man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
1e and 2 machines.</para>
<para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
do not have the
<literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
in the superblock.</para>
<para>A bug in &man.geom.4; that could result in I/O hangs in some rare
cases has been fixed.</para>
@ -1036,18 +1027,49 @@
cooperation between &man.vinum.4; and &man.geom.4;
has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.ips.4; driver now supports the recent
Adaptec ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">A bug in the &man.isp.4; driver
which prevents the cards on SBus from working correctly,
has been fixed.</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.twa.4; driver, which supports
3ware's 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controllers has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.umass.4; driver now supports the missing
ATAPI MMC commands and handles the timeout properly. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.vinum.4; volume manager, has been updated to use
&man.geom.4;, the 5.x disk I/O request transformation framework.
A <command>gvinum</command> userland utility has been added.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The &man.esp.4; device driver has been
ported from NetBSD to support the SBus SCSI card in Sun Ultra
1e and 2 machines.</para>
<para>Support for LSI-type software RAID has been added.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>The EXT2FS file system code now includes partial support
for large (&gt; 4GB) files. This support is partial in that
it will refuse to create large files on file systems that have
not been upgraded to <literal>EXT2_DYN_REV</literal> or that
do not have the
<literal>EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE</literal> flag set
in the superblock.</para>
<para>A panic in the NFSv4 client has been fixed; this occurred
when attempting operations against an NFSv3/NFSv2-only
server.</para>
<para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
<para>The <literal>MSDOSFS_LARGE</literal> kernel option
has been added to support for FAT32 file systems bigger
than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It
@ -1057,37 +1079,14 @@
with less than 1 million files and so on.
Exporting these large file systems
over NFS is not supported.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para>The <devicename>meteor</devicename> (video capture)
driver has been removed due to
breakage and lack of maintainership.</para>
<para>The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code has been updated
from the DRI Project CVS tree as of 26 May, 2004. This update
includes new PCI IDs and a new packet for Radeon.</para>
<para>The drivers for various sound cards has been reorganized;
<literal>device sound</literal> is the generic sound driver,
and <literal>device snd_*</literal> are device-specific sound drivers now.
The <devicename>midi</devicename> driver, which supports serial port
and several sound cards, has been removed.
More details can be found in related manual pages:
&man.sound.4;, &man.snd.ad1816.4;, &man.snd.als4000.4;, &man.snd.cmi.4;,
&man.snd.cs4281.4;, &man.snd.csa.4;, &man.snd.ds1.4;, &man.snd.emu10k1.4;,
&man.snd.es137x.4;, &man.snd.gusc.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
&man.snd.sbc.4;, &man.snd.solo.4;, and &man.snd.uaudio.4;.</para>
<para>The &man.sound.4; (formerly &man.pcm.4;) driver has been modified to read
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> on startup, to allow setting
of default values for mixer channels.
Note that currently the device driver's name used in
<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> is still <literal>pcm</literal>.
More detailed information and examples can be found in the &man.sound.4;
manual page.</para>
<para>The SMBFS client now has support for SMB request signing,
which prevents <quote>man in the middle</quote> attacks and is
required in order to connect to Windows 2003 servers in their
default configuration. As signing each message imposes a
significant performance penalty, this feature is only enabled
if the server requires it; this may eventually become an
option to &man.mount.smbfs.8;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>