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Improved hardware support, including:
+ - New asmc(4)
+ driver for the Apple System Management Controller.
+
- New pchtemp(4)
+ driver for the thermal sensor found on Intel X99, C610 series, 9 series
+ and 100 series PCH.
+
- New uonerng(4)
+ driver for the Moonbase Otago OneRNG.
+
- New dwiic(4)
+ driver for the Synopsys DesignWare I2C controller.
+
- New ikbd(4),
+ ims(4), and
+ imt(4)
+ drivers for HID-over-i2c keyboards, mice and multitouch touchpads.
+
- New efifb(4)
+ driver for EFI frame buffer.
+
- New xnf(4)
+ driver for Xen Netfront network interfaces.
+
- New viocon(4)
+ driver for the
+ virtio(4)
+ console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
- amd64 can now boot from 32 bit and 64 bit EFI.
- Initial support for hardware reduced ACPI added to
acpi(4).
-
- New efifb(4)
- driver for EFI frame buffer.
- Support for ACPI configured SD host controllers has been added to
sdhc(4).
- Xen domU support
xen(4),
xspd(4).
-
- New xnf(4)
- driver for Xen Netfront network interfaces.
- The puc(4)
driver now supports Moxa CP-168U, Perle Speed8 LE and QEMU PCI serial devices.
- Intel 100 Series PCH Ethernet MAC with i219 PHY support has been added to the
em(4) driver.
-
- The bge(4)
- and em(4)
- drivers now process packets without the kernel lock held.
-
- The oce(4)
- driver now processes received packets without the kernel lock held.
- RTL8168H/RTL8111H support has been added to
re(4).
- Initial IEEE 802.11n support in the
iwm(4)
and iwn(4)
drivers.
-
- New asmc(4)
- driver for the Apple System Management Controller.
-
- New pchtemp(4)
- driver for the thermal sensor found on Intel X99, C610 series, 9 series
- and 100 series PCH.
-
- New uonerng(4)
- driver for the Moonbase Otago OneRNG.
-
- New dwiic(4)
- driver for the Synopsys DesignWare I2C controller.
-
- New ikbd(4),
- ims(4), and
- imt(4)
- drivers for HID-over-i2c keyboards, mice and multitouch touchpads.
- inteldrm(4)
has been updated to Linux 3.14.52 adding initial support for Bay Trail
and Broadwell graphics.
-
- New viocon(4)
- driver for the
- virtio(4)
- console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
- Support for audio in Thinkpad docks has been added to the
azalia(4)
driver.
@@ -129,10 +124,7 @@
driver now supports sector mode for eMMC devices, such as those found on
some BeagleBone Black boards.
- The cnmac(4)
- driver now supports checksum offloading and receives packets without the
- kernel lock held.
-
- The xhci(4)
- driver is now enabled for macppc machines.
+ driver now supports checksum offloading
- The ipmi(4)
driver now supports OpenIPMI compatible character device.
- ...
@@ -228,34 +220,36 @@
+
SMP network stack improvements:
+
+ - The bge(4)
+ and em(4)
+ drivers now process packets without the kernel lock held.
+
- The oce(4)
+ and cnmac(4)
+ drivers now processes received packets without the kernel lock held.
+
- bpf(4)
+ now runs without the kernel lock.
+
+
+
Generic network stack improvements:
- - Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.
- New etherip(4)
pseudo-device for tunnelling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks
using RFC 3378 EtherIP encapsulation.
- New pair(4)
pseudo-device for creating paired virtual Ethernet interfaces.
-
- bpf(4)
- now runs without the kernel lock.
-
- Split up the
+
- New tap(4)
+ pseudo-device splitted up from
tun(4)
- pseudo-device into
- tun(4)
- (for layer 3) and
- tap(4)
- (for layer 2) pseudo-devices.
- As a result, the link0 flag has no effect on
- tun(4)
- interfaces anymore.
+ providing a layer 3 interface with userland.
+
- Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.
- The iwn(4)
driver now passes IEEE 802.11 control frames in monitor mode, allowing
full capture of traffic on a particular wireless channel.
- pflow(4)
now supports IPv6 for transport.
-
- Several interoperability issues in
- iked(8)
- have been fixed, including EAP auth with OS X El Capitan.
- ...
@@ -301,16 +295,15 @@
dhclient(8)
again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost,
preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease.
- dhclient(8)
- was pledged.
dhcpd(8)
again properly utilizes default-lease-time, max-lease-time and
bootp-lease-time options.
- dhcpd(8)
- was pledged.
tcpdump(8)
now displays more information about IEEE 802.11 frames when run with
the -y IEEE802_11_RADIO and -v options.
+ Several interoperability issues in
+ iked(8)
+ have been fixed, including EAP auth with OS X El Capitan.
...