Many hundreds of bugs from the 386BSD 0.1 distribution were fixed,
and many out-of-date pieces of software were upgraded to their current
-releases in the GAMMA distribution. This 1.0 distribution fixes
-many of the first-run problems our GAMMA and EPSILON users reported back
+releases in the GAMMA distribution. This 1.1 distribution fixes
+many of the first-run problems our BETA and GAMMA users reported back
to us.
-Additionally, many packages such as XFree86 2.0, xview 3.2, elm, nntp,
-mh and dozens of other miscellaneous utilities have been ported and
-are now available as add-ons. See then next section of this document
+Additionally, many packages such as XFree86 2.1, xview 3.2, elm, nntp,
+mh, InterViews and dozens of other miscellaneous utilities have been ported
+and are now available as add-ons. See then next section of this document
for more details.
For a list of contributors, please see the files "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" and
being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that
contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxilliary packages
-provided separately can be used by anyone. Work is in progress to
-provide a freely (from outside the U.S.) exportable European distribution
-of DES for our non U.S. users.
+provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.)
+exportable European distribution of DES for our non U.S. users also exists
+and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ.
2. Supported Configurations
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
+[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
Buslogic 545S.
Buslogic 445S VLB SCSI controller
+Buslogic 742A and 747.
+Please see special notes in /usr/src/KNOWNBUGS (filed under bt742a.c) for
+details concerning possible buggy firmware and undocumented switch settings
+that may be necessary for proper operation of your controller.
-Bustec 742A and 747.
-
-DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode (as long as
-you have less than 16MB of main memory).
+DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
Ultra Store 14F and 34F.
attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM
interface, or other "mini SCSI" adapters.
-The limitation some controllers have with >16MB of memory (as noted)
-is due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space of 24 bits.
+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 or Adaptec 1742A) or VLB (local bus)
-controllers.
-
+controllers (like the UltraStor or Adaptec 1742A) and most VLB (local bus)
+controllers. In these cases, the system will use "bounce buffers" to
+to talk to the controller, and is generally the default.
2.2. Ethernet cards
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
-WD8003EBT, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones.
+WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
+based clones.
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
Toshiba ethernet cards
-WD Elite Ultra
+SMC Elite Ultra
2.3. Misc
Scott Mace
Andrew Moore
Rich Murphey
+ Geoff Rehmet
Paul Richards
- Christoph Robitschko
Andreas Schulz
Nate Williams
Garrett A. Wollman
The FreeBSD Core Group
-$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.23 1994/02/22 17:23:48 rgrimes Exp $
+$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.30 1994/05/05 14:28:37 jkh Exp $
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