NetBSD 6.0 发布

jopen 12年前

NetBSD项目很高兴地宣布NetBSD6.0发布，这是NetBSD操作系统第十四个主要版本。相比之前版本变化包括：在多核心系统的可扩展性改进，更新和增加许多设备驱动程序，Xen 和 MIPS端口改进， 全新的功能，如一个新的数据包过滤器。

一些NetBSD6.0的亮点：线程局部存储（TLS），逻辑卷管理器（LVM）功能，重写的磁盘配额子系统，新的子系统处理的闪存设备和NAND控制器，的实验CHFS文件系统设计的闪存器件，支持多协议标签交换（MPLS的支持）协议，以及更多。此版本还引入了NPF - 与多核心的系统设计，设计一个新的数据包过滤器，它可以做TCP / IP流量过滤，状态检测，网络地址转换（NAT）。

In addition to many other features, NetBSD 6.0 includes significant developments in various ports. Some highlights:

  • SMP support for Xen domU kernels, initial suspend/resume support for Xen domU, PCI pass-through support for Xen3, and addition of the balloon driver.
  • Major rework of MIPS port adding support for SMP and 64-bit (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported) processors, DSP v2 ASE extension, various NetLogic/RMI processor models, Loongson family processors, and new SoC boards.
  • Improved SMP on PowerPC port and added support for Book E Freescale MPC85xx (e500 core) processors.
  • ARM has gained support for Cortex-A8 processors, various new SoCs, and initial support for Raspberry Pi. Full support for Raspberry Pi and major ARM improvements to come in a future NetBSD release.
  • time_t is now a 64-bit quantity on all NetBSD ports. This means that the NetBSD world no longer ends in 2037.

查看NetBSD 6.0的完整变化情况：http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/proudly_announcing_netbsd_6_0