RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD
- Release 1.0
+ Release 1.1
1. Technical overview
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many of the first-run problems our GAMMA and EPSILON users reported back
to us.
-Additionally, many packages such as XFree86 1.3, xview 3.2, elm, nntp,
+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
for more details.
-For a list of contributors, please see the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD",
-which should be bundled with your distribution.
+For a list of contributors, please see the files "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" and
+"CONTRIB.386BSD", which should be bundled with your distribution.
The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
-Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller as long as you have
-less than 16MB of memory.
+Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller (as long as you have less than
+16MB of main memory).
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 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.
+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) 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)
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
-Novell NE1000 and NE2000 ethernet interface.
+Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
+3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards
+
+Toshiba ethernet cards
+
+SMC Elite Ultra
+
2.3. Misc
Simple (AST-like) multiport serial cards.
-Mitsumi CDROM interface and drive.
+BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ.
+
+STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
+
+Mitsumi (all models) 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
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
`freebsd.cdrom.com' - the offical FreeBSD release site.
-The FreeBSD software is being mirrored at the following locations:
-
-Country Site/Directory
-======= =====================================================
-
-Austria ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/FreeBSD
-Germany ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:pub/comp/os/bsd/FreeBSD
-Germany ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD
-Hong Kong ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/FreeBSD
-
+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
FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
+Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of
+traffic, if you've got slow or expensive mail access and you're
+only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may
+find it preferable to subscribe to:
+
+ FreeBSD-announce@freefall.cdrom.com
+
+
All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to
do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@freefall.cdrom.com and include the keyword
`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
J.T. Conklin Chris Demetriou
Julian Elischer Bruce Evans
Sean Eric Fagan Guy Helmer
- Terry Lambert Gary Moyer
- Jaye Mathisen L Jonas Olsson
- Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers
+ Jeffrey Hsu Terry Lambert
+ Gary Moyer Jaye Mathisen
+ Curt Mayer L Jonas Olsson
+ Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers
Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace
Rick Weldon Terry Williams
The FreeBSD Core Group
-$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.20 1994/01/30 06:17:55 rgrimes Exp $
+$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.27 1994/03/24 21:57:38 davidg Exp $