Comment the bootloader section.

Submitted by:	Eugene Grosbein
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Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><title>FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Release Notes</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /><link rev="made" href="doc@FreeBSD.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /><meta name="description" content="The release notes for FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 10.0-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented." /></head><body><div class="article"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="idp61503184"></a>FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Release Notes</h1></div><div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="orgname">The FreeBSD Project</span></h3></div></div><div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="copyright">Copyright © 2013-2014 The FreeBSD Documentation
Project</p></div><div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legalnotice"><a id="trademarks"></a><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">FreeBSD is a registered trademark of
the FreeBSD Foundation. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">IBM, AIX, OS/2,
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scalability by allowing TLB translations to dynamically cover
large physical memory regions. All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based
platforms can take advantage of this feature. See the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages" target="_top">ARM
Superpages status</a> page for further details. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=254918">[r254918]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="boot"></a>2.2.3. Boot Loader Changes</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">[amd64,i386] The BTX kernel used by the
boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
mode. This change makes it possible to boot FreeBSD from USB
devices. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">[amd64,i386] A new <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gptboot&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gptboot</span>(8)</span></a> boot
loader has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled
disk. A new <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">boot</code> command has been added to
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gpart</span>(8)</span></a>, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
partition if required. </p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="proc"></a>2.2.4. Hardware Support</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cmx&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cmx</span>(4)</span></a> driver, a driver for Omnikey
Superpages status</a> page for further details. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=254918">[r254918]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="proc"></a>2.2.3. Hardware Support</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cmx&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cmx</span>(4)</span></a> driver, a driver for Omnikey
CardMan 4040 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syscons&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">syscons</span>(4)</span></a> driver now supports the Colemak
keyboard layout. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uslcom&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">uslcom</span>(4)</span></a> driver, a driver for
Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters,
has been imported from OpenBSD. </p><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="mm"></a>2.2.4.1. Multimedia Support</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for version 2.0 of the USB
has been imported from OpenBSD. </p><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="mm"></a>2.2.3.1. Multimedia Support</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for version 2.0 of the USB
Audio reference design has been added. New devices should
support higher bandwidth, increased sampling frequency and
wider dynamic range. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=240609">[r240609]</a></p></div><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="net-if"></a>2.2.4.2. Network Interface Support</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ale&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ale</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been added to provide support
wider dynamic range. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=240609">[r240609]</a></p></div><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="net-if"></a>2.2.3.2. Network Interface Support</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ale&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ale</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been added to provide support
for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet
controllers. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been split into two drivers
with some common parts. The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">em</span>(4)</span></a> driver will continue
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trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network
interface with minimal packet sizes. For more information,
see: <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/" target="_top">Netmap
Project</a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=227614">[r227614]</a></p></div></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="net-proto"></a>2.2.5. Network Protocols</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=carp&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">carp</span>(4)</span></a> has been rewritten to make
Project</a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=227614">[r227614]</a></p></div></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="net-proto"></a>2.2.4. Network Protocols</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=carp&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">carp</span>(4)</span></a> has been rewritten to make
addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such
as quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
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performance. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=240233">[r240233]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for up to 65536 routing tables
has been introduced. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=250700">[r250700]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for setting/matching
differentiated services codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has
been added to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=248552">[r248552]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="disks"></a>2.2.6. Disks and Storage</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aac&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">aac</span>(4)</span></a> driver now supports volumes
been added to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ipfw</span>(8)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=248552">[r248552]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="disks"></a>2.2.5. Disks and Storage</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aac&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">aac</span>(4)</span></a> driver now supports volumes
larger than 2TB in size. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&amp;sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver now supports a spindown command for
disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
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NVM Express support. NVM Express is an optimized register
interface, command set and feature set of PCI Express
(PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information,
see <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="http://www.nvmexpress.org/" target="_top">nvmexpress.org</a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=240616">[r240616]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="fs"></a>2.2.7. File Systems</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and
see <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="http://www.nvmexpress.org/" target="_top">nvmexpress.org</a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=240616">[r240616]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="fs"></a>2.2.6. File Systems</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and
initiator has been added. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=255570">[r255570]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">growfs</span>(8)</span></a> while mounted read-write. This is especially
useful for virtual machines, allowing the addition of more
harddrive space without interruption of service. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=243246">[r243246]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A state of the art FUSE implementation
is now part of the base system. It allows the use of nearly
all fusefs file systems. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=241519">[r241519]</a></p><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="fs-zfs"></a>2.2.7.1. ZFS</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bsdinstall</span>(8)</span></a> now supports installing
all fusefs file systems. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&amp;revision=241519">[r241519]</a></p><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="fs-zfs"></a>2.2.6.1. ZFS</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall&amp;sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bsdinstall</span>(8)</span></a> now supports installing
ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single
configuration menu that allows you to select all of the
required details, including which drives to use, what ZFS