svn commit: r261992 - stable/8

Christian Brueffer brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 16 19:44:30 UTC 2014


Author: brueffer
Date: Sun Feb 16 19:44:30 2014
New Revision: 261992
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/261992

Log:
  Direct commit to stable/8 to note that the nve(4) driver has been
  deprecated.

Modified:
  stable/8/UPDATING

Modified: stable/8/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/UPDATING	Sun Feb 16 19:44:07 2014	(r261991)
+++ stable/8/UPDATING	Sun Feb 16 19:44:30 2014	(r261992)
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 	debugging tools present in HEAD were left in place because
 	sun4v support still needs work to become production ready.
 
+20140216:
+	The nve(4) driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters has
+	been deprecated and will not be part of FreeBSD 11.0 and later
+	releases.  If you use this driver, please consider switching to
+	the nfe(4) driver instead.
+
 20131216:
 	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
 	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string


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