[Midnightbsd-cvs] src [8993] trunk/sys: update notes for virtio.

[laffer1 at midnightbsd.org]

Revision: 8993
          http://svnweb.midnightbsd.org/src/?rev=8993
Author:   laffer1
Date:     2016-09-29 21:30:15 -0400 (Thu, 29 Sep 2016)
Log Message:
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update notes for virtio.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES
    trunk/sys/i386/conf/NOTES

Modified: trunk/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES
===================================================================
--- trunk/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES	2016-09-30 01:27:10 UTC (rev 8992)
+++ trunk/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES	2016-09-30 01:30:15 UTC (rev 8993)
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 # versions.
 #
 # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
-# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
+# specified, BSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
 # RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
 # depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
 # then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
@@ -442,6 +442,13 @@
 
 #
 # VirtIO support
+#
+# The virtio entry provides a generic bus for use by the device drivers.
+# It must be combined with an interface that communicates with the host.
+# Multiple such interfaces defined by the VirtIO specification. BSD
+# only has support for PCI. Therefore, virtio_pci must be statically
+# compiled in or loaded as a module for the device drivers to function.
+#
 device		virtio		# Generic VirtIO bus (required)
 device		virtio_pci	# VirtIO PCI Interface
 device		vtnet		# VirtIO Ethernet device

Modified: trunk/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
===================================================================
--- trunk/sys/i386/conf/NOTES	2016-09-30 01:27:10 UTC (rev 8992)
+++ trunk/sys/i386/conf/NOTES	2016-09-30 01:30:15 UTC (rev 8993)
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
 # versions.
 #
 # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
-# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
+# specified, BSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
 # RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
 # depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
 # then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
@@ -774,6 +774,13 @@
 
 #
 # VirtIO support
+#
+# The virtio entry provides a generic bus for use by the device drivers.
+# It must be combined with an interface that communicates with the host.
+# Multiple such interfaces defined by the VirtIO specification. BSD
+# only has support for PCI. Therefore, virtio_pci must be statically
+# compiled in or loaded as a module for the device drivers to function.
+#
 device		virtio		# Generic VirtIO bus (required)
 device		virtio_pci	# VirtIO PCI Interface
 device		vtnet		# VirtIO Ethernet device