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RELEASE NOTES
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FreeBSD
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Release 2.0.5
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1. Technical overview
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---------------------
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FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release
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for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or compatible) based PC's. It is based
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primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
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enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.
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Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 some 8 months ago, the performance,
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feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The
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largest change is a revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer
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cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's
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memory footprint, making a 4MB configuration a more acceptable
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minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server
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support, transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI
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subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and Fast Ethernet
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(100Mbit) adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and
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narrow) and many hundreds of bug fixes.
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We've also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to
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heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and
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easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this
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(constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!
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In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported
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software collection with some 270 commonly sought-after programs. The
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list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages,
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editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection
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requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed as "deltas"
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to their original sources. This makes it much easier for us to update
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ports, and greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the older
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1.0 ports collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the
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directory of the program you wish to install, type make and let the
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system do the rest. The full original distribution for each port you
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build is retrieved dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so
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you need only enough disk space to build the ports you want. (Almost)
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every port is also provided as a pre-compiled "package" which can be
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installed with a simple command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to
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compile their own ports from source. See the file:
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/usr/share/FAQ/Text/ports.FAQ
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for a more complete description of the ports collection.
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Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 nearly two years ago, FreeBSD
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has changed almost entirely. A new port from the Berkeley 4.4 code
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base was done, which brought the legal status of the system out of the
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shadows with the blessing of Novell (the new owners of USL and UNIX). The
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port to 4.4 has also brought in a host of new features, filesystems
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and enhanced driver support. With our new unencumbered code base, we
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have every reason to hope that we'll be able to release quality
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operating systems without further legal encumbrance for some time to
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come!
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FreeBSD 2.0.5 represents the culmination of 2 years of work and many
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thousands of man hours put in by an international development team.
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We hope you enjoy it!
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A number of additional documents which you may find very helpful in
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the process of installing and using FreeBSD may also be found in
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the "FAQ" directory, either under /usr/share/FAQ on an installed
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system or at the top level of the CDROM or FTP distribution from
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where you're reading this file. Please consult FAQ/Text/ROADMAP
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for a brief description of the resources provided by the FAQ directory.
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For a list of contributors and a general project description, please see
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the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" which should be bundled with your binary
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distribution.
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Also see the "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering
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with the "Free BSD user counter". This counter is for ALL freely
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available variants of BSD, not just FreeBSD, and we urge you to register
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yourself with it.
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The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
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being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
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to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that
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contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages
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provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the
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U.S.) exportable European distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also
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exists and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ.
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If password security for FreeBSD is all you need, and you have no
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requirement for copying encrypted passwords from different hosts
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(Suns, DEC machines, etc) into FreeBSD password entries, then
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FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that our
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default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any
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messy export issues to deal with. If you're outside (or even inside)
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the U.S., give it a try!
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1.1 What's new in 2.0.5?
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The following features were added or substantially improved between
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the release of 2.0 and this 2.0.5 release. In order to facilitate
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better communication, the person, or persons, responsible for each
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enhancement is noted. Any questions regarding the new functionality
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should be directed to them first.
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KERNEL:
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Merged VM-File Buffer Cache
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A merged VM/buffer cache design greatly enhances overall system
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performance and makes it possible to do a number of more optimal
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memory allocation strategies that were not possible before.
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Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) and
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John Dyson (dyson@implode.root.com)
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Network PCB hash optimization
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-----------------------------
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For systems with a great number of active TCP connections (WEB and ftp
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servers, for example), this greatly speeds up the lookup time required
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to match an incoming packet up to its associated connection.
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Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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Name cache optimization
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-----------------------
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The name-cache would cache all files of the same name to the same bucket,
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which would put for instance all ".." entries in the same bucket. We added
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the parent directory version to frustrate the hash, and improved the
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management of the cache in various other ways while we were at it.
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Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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Less restrictive swap-spaces
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----------------------------
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The need to compile the names of the swap devices into the kernel has been
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removed. Now swapon will accept any block devices, up to the maximum
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number of swap devices configured in the kernel.
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Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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Hard Wired SCSI Devices
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Prior to 2.0.5, FreeBSD performed dynamic assignment of unit numbers
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to SCSI devices as they were probed, allowing a SCSI device failure to
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possibly change unit number assignment and prevent filesystems on
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still functioning disks from mounting. Hard wiring allows static
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allocation of unit numbers (and hence device names) to scsi devices
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based on SCSI ID and bus. SCSI configuration occurs in the kernel
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config file. Samples of the configuration syntax can be found in the
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scsi(4) man page or the LINT kernel config file.
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Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
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Sources involved: sys/scsi/* usr.sbin/config/*
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Slice Support
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FreeBSD now supports a "slice" abstraction which makes it more
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completely interoperable with other operating system partitions. This
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support will allow FreeBSD to inhabit DOS extended partitions.
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Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: sys/disklabel.h sys/diskslice.h sys/dkbad.h
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kern/subr_diskslice.c kern/subr_dkbad.c
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i386/isa/diskslice_machdep.c
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i386/isa/wd.c scsi/sd.c dev/vn/vn.c
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Support for Ontrack Disk Manager Version 6.0
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--------------------------------------------
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Support has been added for disks which use Ontrack Disk Manager. The
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fdisk program does NOT know about it however, so make all changes
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using the install program on the boot.flp or the Ontrack Disk Manager
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tool under DOS.
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Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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Bad144 is back and working
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--------------------------
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Bad144 works again, though the semantics are slightly different than
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before in that the bad-spots are kept relative to the slice rather
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than absolute on the disk.
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Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
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Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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NEW DEVICE SUPPORT:
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SCSI and CDROM Devices
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Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) CD-ROM driver
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---------------------------------------------
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The Matsushita/Panasonic CR-562 and CR-563 drives are now supported
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when connected to a Sound Blaster or 100% compatible host adapter. Up
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to four host adapters are supported for a total of 16 CD-ROM drives.
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The audio functions are supported, along with access to the raw (2352 byte)
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data frames of any compact disc. Audio discs may be played using Karoke
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variable speed functions.
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Owner: Frank Durda IV bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org
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Sources involved: isa/matcd
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Adaptec 2742/2842/2940 SCSI driver
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The original 274x/284x driver has evolved considerably since the 2.0
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release. We now offer full support for the 2940 series as well as the
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Wide models of these cards. The arbitration bug (as well as many
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others) that caused the driver problems with fast devices has been
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corrected and there is even experimental tagged queuing support
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(kernel option "AHC_TAGENABLE"). John Aycock has also released the
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sequencer code under a "Berkeley style" copyright making the driver
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entirely clean of the GPL.
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Owner: Justin Gibbs (gibbs@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: isa/aic7770.c pci/aic7870.c i386/scsi/*
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sys/dev/aic7xxx/*
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NCR5380/NCR53400 SCSI ("ProAudio Spectrum") driver
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--------------------------------------------------
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko (vak@cronyx.ru)
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Sources involved: isa/ncr5380.c
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Sony CDROM driver
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-----------------
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Mikael Hybsch (micke@dynas.se)
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Sources involved: isa/scd.c
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Serial Devices
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SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board Driver
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-----------------------------------------------
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Owner: Andrey Chernov (ache@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: isa/rc.c isa/rcreg.h
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Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Driver
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-------------------------------------
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Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
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Submitted by: Andrew Werple (andrew@werple.apana.org.au) and
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Heikki Suonsivu (hsu@cs.hut.fi)
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Obtained from: NetBSD
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Sources involved: isa/cy.c
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Cronyx/Sigma sync/async serial driver
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-------------------------------------
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko
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Sources involved: isa/cronyx.c
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Networking
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Diskless booting
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Diskless booting in 2.0.5 is much improved. The boot-program is in
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src/sys/i386/boot/netboot, and can be run from an MSDOS system or
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burned into an EPROM. Local swapping is also possible. WD, SMC, 3COM
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and Novell ethernet cards are currently supported.
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DEC DC21140 Fast Ethernet driver
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This driver supports any of the numerous NICs using the DC21140 chipset
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including the 100Mb DEC DE-500-XA and SMC 9332.
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com)
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Sources involved: pci/if_de.c pci/dc21040.h
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DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) driver
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com)
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Sources involved: pci/if_pdq.c pci/pdq.c pci/pdq_os.h pci/pdqreg.h
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3Com 3c505 (Etherlink/+) NIC driver
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-----------------------------------
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Dean Huxley (dean@fsa.ca)
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Obtained from: NetBSD
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Sources involved: isa/if_eg.c
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Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs driver
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: M.S. (seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp)
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Sources involved: isa/if_fe.c
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Intel EtherExpress driver
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-------------------------
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Owner: Rodney W. Grimes (rgrimes@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: isa/if_ix.c isa/if_ixreg.h
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3Com 3c589 driver
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
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Seiji Murata (seiji@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp) and
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Noriyuki Takahashi (hor@aecl.ntt.jp)
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Sources involved: isa/if_zp.c
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IBM Credit Card Adapter driver
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
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Sources involved: isa/pcic.c isa/pcic.h
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EDSS1 and 1TR6 ISDN interface driver
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------------------------------------
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Dietmar Friede (dfriede@drnhh.neuhaus.de) and
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Juergen Krause (jkr@saarlink.de)
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Sources involved: gnu/isdn/*
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Miscellaneous Drivers
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Joystick driver
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---------------
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Owner: Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: isa/joy.c
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National Instruments "LabPC" driver
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-----------------------------------
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Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
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Sources involved: isa/labpc.c
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WD7000 driver
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Owner: Olof Johansson (offe@ludd.luth.se)
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Pcvt Console driver
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-------------------
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Owner: Joerg Wunsch (joerg@FreeBSD.org)
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Submitted by: Hellmuth Michaelis (hm@altona.hamburg.com)
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Sources involved: isa/pcvt/* usr.sbin/pcvt/*
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BSD-audio emulator for VAT driver
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---------------------------------
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Owner: Amancio Hasty (ahasty@FreeBSD.org) and
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Paul Traina (pst@FreeBSD.org)
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Sources involved: isa/sound/vat_audio.c isa/sound/vat_audioio.h
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National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT GPIB driver
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--------------------------------------------------------
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Fred Cawthorne (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu)
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Sources involved: isa/gpib.c isa/gpib.h isa/gpibreg.h
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Genius GS-4500 hand scanner driver
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Gunther Schadow (gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de)
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Sources involved: isa/gsc.c isa/gscreg.h
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CORTEX-I Frame Grabber
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Owner: core
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Submitted by: Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
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Sources involved: isa/ctx.c isa/ctxreg.h
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Video Spigot video capture card
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-------------------------------
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Owner: Jim Lowe
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1.2 Experimental features
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The unionfs and LFS file systems are known to be severely broken in
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2.0.5. This is in part due to old bugs that we haven't had time to
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resolve yet and the need to update these file systems to deal with the
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new VM system. We hope to address these issues in a later release of
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FreeBSD.
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FreeBSD now supports running iBCS2 compatible binaries (currently SCO
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UNIX 3.2.2 & 3.2.4 and ISC 2.2 COFF format are supported). The iBCS2
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emulator is in its early stages, but it is functional, we haven't been
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able to do exhaustive testing (lack of commercial apps), but almost
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all of SCO's 3.2.2 binaries are working, so is an old INFORMIX-2.10
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for SCO. Further testing is nessesary to complete this project. There
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is also work under way for ELF & XOUT loaders, and most of the svr4
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syscall wrappers have been written.
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FreeBSD also implements enough of its Linux compatibility that we
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can now run Linux DOOM! See the ``xperimnt'' directory (on your local
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FTP server or CDROM) for full docs on how to set this up.
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Owner: Soren Schmidt (sos) & Sean Eric Fagan (sef)
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Sources involved: sys/i386/ibcs2/* + misc kernel changes.
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2. Supported Configurations
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---------------------------
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FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
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based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
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386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
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configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
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also provided.
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Following is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards currently
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known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may very well work, and
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we have simply not received any indication of this.
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2.1. Disk Controllers
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---------------------
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WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
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WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
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WD7000
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IDE
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ATA
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Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
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Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
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Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
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Adaptec 274X/284X/2940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers
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Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes
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the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
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** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
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on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping the boot device into the
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system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
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CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
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without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
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indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
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or reset. Check your system/board documentation for more details.
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[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
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Buslogic 545S & 545c
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Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
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Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
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Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
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Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
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NCR 53C810 and 53C825 PCI SCSI controller.
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NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
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DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
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UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
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Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
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Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
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With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
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SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
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DAT) and CD ROM drives.
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The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
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(cd) SCSI (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)
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(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface
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(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) proprietary interface
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(scd) Sony proprietary interface
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Note: CD-Drives with IDE interfaces are not supported at this time.
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Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of
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memory, due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space
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of 24 bits. If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it
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impossible to do direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is
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even true of some EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when
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they're configured to emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all*
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respects. This problem is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which
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do not use DMA), true EISA controllers (like the UltraStor, Adaptec
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1742A or Adaptec 2742) and most VLB (local bus) controllers. In the
|
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cases where it's necessary, the system will use "bounce buffers" to
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talk to the controller so that you can still use more than 16Mb of
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memory without difficulty.
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|
||
|
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2.2. Ethernet cards
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||
-------------------
|
||
|
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SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
|
||
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
|
||
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
|
||
|
||
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
|
||
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
|
||
DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)
|
||
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
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||
|
||
Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs
|
||
|
||
Intel EtherExpress
|
||
|
||
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
|
||
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
|
||
|
||
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
|
||
|
||
3Com 3C501 cards
|
||
|
||
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
|
||
|
||
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
|
||
|
||
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
|
||
|
||
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA) Etherlink III
|
||
|
||
Toshiba ethernet cards
|
||
|
||
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
|
||
supported.
|
||
|
||
|
||
2.3. Misc
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||
|
||
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||
|
||
BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||
|
||
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
|
||
|
||
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
|
||
|
||
Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive.
|
||
|
||
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
|
||
|
||
SoundBlaster SCSI and ProAudio Spectrum SCSI CDROM interface and drive.
|
||
|
||
Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) CDROM interface and drive.
|
||
|
||
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
|
||
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
|
||
|
||
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but
|
||
support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted
|
||
as the situation develops.
|
||
|
||
|
||
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
|
||
--------------------
|
||
|
||
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
|
||
|
||
1. FTP/Mail
|
||
|
||
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
|
||
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
|
||
|
||
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
|
||
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site
|
||
to you netwise.
|
||
|
||
If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your
|
||
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
|
||
`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
|
||
to get more information on how to fetch files from ftp.freebsd.org.
|
||
Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes*
|
||
through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST
|
||
resort!
|
||
|
||
|
||
2. CDROM
|
||
|
||
FreeBSD 2.0.5 may be ordered on CDROM from:
|
||
|
||
Walnut Creek CDROM
|
||
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
|
||
Concord CA 94520
|
||
1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
|
||
|
||
Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
|
||
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp as:
|
||
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
|
||
|
||
Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US,
|
||
Canada, or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard,
|
||
American Express, and ship COD within the United States. California
|
||
residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
|
||
|
||
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
|
||
unconditional return policy.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
|
||
valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
|
||
(preferably with a fix attached if you can!).
|
||
|
||
The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
|
||
internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command. Bug reports
|
||
will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
|
||
be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
|
||
as possible.
|
||
|
||
If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
|
||
submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
|
||
|
||
bugs@FreeBSD.org
|
||
|
||
|
||
Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
|
||
|
||
questions@FreeBSD.org
|
||
|
||
Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
|
||
extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements
|
||
to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us
|
||
on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to:
|
||
|
||
hackers@FreeBSD.org
|
||
|
||
Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of
|
||
traffic, if you have slow or expensive mail access and you are
|
||
only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may
|
||
find it preferable to subscribe to:
|
||
|
||
announce@FreeBSD.org
|
||
|
||
|
||
All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
|
||
to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
|
||
`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
|
||
will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
|
||
archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
|
||
special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
|
||
and ask about them!
|
||
|
||
|
||
6. Acknowledgements
|
||
-------------------
|
||
|
||
FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
|
||
hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
|
||
hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not
|
||
impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but
|
||
nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your
|
||
name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely
|
||
accidental.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley.
|
||
|
||
Bill Jolitz, for his initial work with 386BSD.
|
||
|
||
The FreeBSD Core Team
|
||
(in alphabetical order by first name):
|
||
|
||
Andreas Schulz <ats@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Andrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
David Greenman <davidg@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Geoff Rehmet <csgr@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Jack Vogel <jackv@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Justin Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Rich Murphey <rich@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
S<>ren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
|
||
|
||
Special mention to:
|
||
|
||
Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
|
||
this release would never have been possible.
|
||
|
||
Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
|
||
drive.
|
||
|
||
Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
|
||
|
||
J.T. Conklin Julian Elischer
|
||
Frank Durda IV Peter Dufault
|
||
Sean Eric Fagan Jeffrey Hsu
|
||
Terry Lambert L Jonas Olsson
|
||
Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers
|
||
Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace
|
||
Atsushi Murai Scott Mace
|
||
Nate Williams
|
||
|
||
And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Jordan would also like to give special thanks to Poul-Henning Kamp and
|
||
Gary Palmer, both of whom put in long hours helping him to construct
|
||
the new installation utility. Poul, being a proud new father, was
|
||
especially pressed for time and yet somehow managed to put in
|
||
a significant amount of effort anyway. This release could not have
|
||
happened without him! Thank you both!
|
||
|
||
Thanks also to everyone else who helped, especially those not
|
||
mentioned, and we sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
|
||
|
||
|
||
The FreeBSD Core Team
|
||
|
||
$Id: RELNOTES,v 1.6 1995/06/06 02:15:16 jkh Exp $
|