git: 4cb0d41c5486 - main - RELNOTES: Add an entry for the new QAT driver
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:14:07 UTC
The branch main has been updated by markj: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4cb0d41c5486ddcc90e5867f4524e3c0ccd2f2b0 commit 4cb0d41c5486ddcc90e5867f4524e3c0ccd2f2b0 Author: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-07-21 15:07:11 +0000 Commit: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-07-27 15:13:20 +0000 RELNOTES: Add an entry for the new QAT driver Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- RELNOTES | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES index 4b7b56f39f61..19a0867073bc 100644 --- a/RELNOTES +++ b/RELNOTES @@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline. Changes to this file should not be MFCed. +78ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd: + The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver. + The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's + cryptographic and compression offload functionality. + + This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new + driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets. To preserve support for + those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept + in the tree. Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to + ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4). + da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21: Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are