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| <pre>
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|                                  RELEASE NOTES
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|                                     FreeBSD
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|                                  Release 2.0.5
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| 
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| 1. Technical overview
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| ---------------------
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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| 1.1 What's new in 2.0.5?
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| ------------------------
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| 
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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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| 
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| KERNEL:
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| 
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| Merged VM-File Buffer Cache
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| ---------------------------
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| Owner:                  David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| Owner:                  Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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|                         David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| Owner:                  Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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|                         David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
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| 
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| 
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| Hard Wired SCSI Devices
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| -----------------------
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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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| <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?scsi(4)">scsi(4)</a>>
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| man page or the LINT kernel config file.
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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| Slice Support
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| -------------
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| Owner:                  Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| Owner:                  Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
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|                         Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
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| 
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| 
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| NEW DEVICE SUPPORT:
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| 
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|                         SCSI and CDROM Devices
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| 
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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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| 
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| Owner:                  Frank Durda IV   bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org
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| Sources involved:       isa/matcd
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| 
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| 
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| Adaptec 2742/2842/2940 SCSI driver
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| ----------------------------------
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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|                         Serial Devices
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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| 
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|                         Networking
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| 
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| Diskless booting
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| ----------------
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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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| 
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| DEC DC21140 Fast Ethernet driver
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| --------------------------------
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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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| 
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| 
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| DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) driver
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| -----------------------------
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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| Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs driver
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| -------------------------------------
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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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| 
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| 
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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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| 
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| 
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| 3Com 3c589 driver
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| -----------------
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| Owner:                  core
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| Submitted by:           "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
 | ||
|                         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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| 
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| 
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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),
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/pcic.c isa/pcic.h
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| 
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| 
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| EDSS1 and 1TR6 ISDN interface driver
 | ||
| ------------------------------------
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| Owner:                  core
 | ||
| Submitted by:           Dietmar Friede (dfriede@drnhh.neuhaus.de) and
 | ||
|                         Juergen Krause (jkr@saarlink.de)
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| Sources involved:       gnu/isdn/*
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| 
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| 
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|                         Miscellaneous Drivers
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| 
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| Joystick driver
 | ||
| ---------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@FreeBSD.org)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/joy.c
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
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| National Instruments "LabPC" driver
 | ||
| -----------------------------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/labpc.c
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
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| WD7000 driver
 | ||
| -------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  Olof Johansson (offe@ludd.luth.se)
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| 
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| 
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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)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/pcvt/* usr.sbin/pcvt/*
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| 
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| 
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| BSD-audio emulator for VAT driver
 | ||
| ---------------------------------
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| Owner:                  Amancio Hasty (ahasty@FreeBSD.org) and
 | ||
|                         Paul Traina (pst@FreeBSD.org)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/sound/vat_audio.c isa/sound/vat_audioio.h
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT GPIB driver
 | ||
| --------------------------------------------------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  core
 | ||
| Submitted by:           Fred Cawthorne (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/gpib.c isa/gpib.h isa/gpibreg.h
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Genius GS-4500 hand scanner driver
 | ||
| ----------------------------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  core
 | ||
| Submitted by:           Gunther Schadow (gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/gsc.c isa/gscreg.h
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| CORTEX-I Frame Grabber
 | ||
| ----------------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  core
 | ||
| Submitted by:           Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
 | ||
| Sources involved:       isa/ctx.c isa/ctxreg.h
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
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| Video Spigot video capture card
 | ||
| -------------------------------
 | ||
| Owner:                  Jim Lowe
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 1.2 Experimental features
 | ||
| -------------------------
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| The unionfs and LFS filesystems are known to be severely broken in
 | ||
| 2.0.5.  This is in part due to old bugs that we haven't had time to
 | ||
| resolve yet and the need to update these filesystems to deal with the
 | ||
| new VM system.  We hope to address these issues in a later release of
 | ||
| FreeBSD.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| FreeBSD now supports running iBCS2 compatible binaries (currently SCO
 | ||
| UNIX 3.2.2 & 3.2.4 and ISC 2.2 COFF format are supported).  The iBCS2
 | ||
| emulator is in its early stages, but it is functional, we haven't been
 | ||
| able to do exhaustive testing (lack of commercial apps), but almost
 | ||
| all of SCO's 3.2.2 binaries are working, so is an old INFORMIX-2.10
 | ||
| for SCO. Further testing is necessary to complete this project. There
 | ||
| is also work under way for ELF & XOUT loaders, and most of the svr4
 | ||
| syscall wrappers have been written.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| FreeBSD also implements enough of its Linux compatibility that we
 | ||
| can now run Linux DOOM!  See the ``xperimnt'' directory (on your local
 | ||
| FTP server or CDROM) for full docs on how to set this up.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Owner:                  Soren Schmidt (sos) & Sean Eric Fagan (sef)
 | ||
| Sources involved:       sys/i386/ibcs2/* + misc kernel changes.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 2. Supported Configurations
 | ||
| ---------------------------
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
 | ||
| based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
 | ||
| 386sx is not recommended).  Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
 | ||
| configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
 | ||
| also provided.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Following is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards currently
 | ||
| known to work with FreeBSD.  Other configurations may very well work, and
 | ||
| we have simply not received any indication of this.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 2.1. Disk Controllers
 | ||
| ---------------------
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
 | ||
| WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
 | ||
| WD7000
 | ||
| IDE
 | ||
| ATA
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
 | ||
| Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
 | ||
| Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
 | ||
| Adaptec 274X/284X/2940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers
 | ||
| Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes
 | ||
| the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
 | ||
|    on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping the boot device into the
 | ||
|    system BIOS I/O vectors.  They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
 | ||
|    CDROMs, etc, however.  The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
 | ||
|    without a boot ROM.  Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
 | ||
|    indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
 | ||
|    or reset.  Check your system/board documentation for more details.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| [Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
 | ||
| Buslogic 545S & 545c
 | ||
| Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
 | ||
| Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
 | ||
| Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
 | ||
| Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| NCR 53C810 and 53C825 PCI SCSI controller.
 | ||
| NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. 
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
 | ||
| SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
 | ||
| DAT) and CD ROM drives.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
 | ||
| (cd)    SCSI (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)
 | ||
| (mcd)   Mitsumi proprietary interface 
 | ||
| (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) proprietary interface
 | ||
| (scd)   Sony proprietary interface
 | ||
| 
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| Note: CD-Drives with IDE interfaces are not supported at this time.
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| 
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| Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of
 | ||
| memory, due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space
 | ||
| of 24 bits.  If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it
 | ||
| impossible to do direct DMA to any address >16MB.  This limitation is
 | ||
| even true of some EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when
 | ||
| they're configured to emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all*
 | ||
| respects.  This problem is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which
 | ||
| do not use DMA), true EISA controllers (like the UltraStor, Adaptec
 | ||
| 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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| 
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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.
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| 
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| 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.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| 
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| 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 per CD is $39.95, or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.  With
 | ||
| a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they
 | ||
| are released.  Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped
 | ||
| and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further obligation.
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Walnut Creek CDROM also sells a full line of FreeBSD related merchandise such
 | ||
| as T-shirts ($14.95, available in "child", Large and XL sizes), coffee mugs
 | ||
| ($9.95), tattoos ($0.25 each) and posters ($3.00).
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or
 | ||
| Mexico and $9.00 overseas.  They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover,
 | ||
| American Express or checks in U.S. Dollars 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.FreeBSD,v 1.7 1995/05/28 19:49:57 jkh Exp 
 | ||
| </pre>
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