From bc14111650dc8f0cb3ec443f47da7dc6d99751ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:22:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention RDRAND and Xen PVHVM. Add a revision number for 4TB RAM support on amd64. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 569739c77a93..7ae0204822fd 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% of the system time on i/o intensive workloads. - The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel + The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added @@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ scheduler is now the default process scheduler in GENERIC kernels. + Support was added for + the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number + generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, + accessible with RDRAND instruction. + Virtualization support The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included @@ -208,6 +213,9 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES" Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from OpenBSD. + Xen PVHVM virtualization is now + part of the GENERIC kernel. +