UPDATING revision 44097
1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users 2 3This file is maintainted by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4in it to him. See end of file for further details. 5 619990214: 7 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 8 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 9 for proper configuration details. 10 1119990210: 12 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 13 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 14 1519990209: 16 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 17 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 18 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 19 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 20 2119990125: 22 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 23 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 24 is in order (or better yet a make world). 25 2619990122: 27 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 28 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 29 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 30 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 31 3219990121: 33 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 34 updates, please see 35 36http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 37 38 for details. 39 40 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 41 information please see 42 43http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 44 or 45http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 46 47 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 48 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 49 5019990120: 51 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 52 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 53 5419990119: 55 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 56 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 57 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 58 config file changes are needed. 59 6019990111: 61 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 62 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 63 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 64 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 65 The instruction can be found in 66 67 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 68 69 It has notes on splash screen too. 70 7119990106: 72 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 73 install the new bootblocks: 74 75 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 76 77 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 78 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 79 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 80 messages about being unable to find library files. The 81 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 82 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 83 recommended. 84 8519990104: 86 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 87 88 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 89 90 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 91 for doing the upgrade. 92 9319981230: 94 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 95 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 96 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 97 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 98 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 99 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 100 for more details. 101 10219981224: 103 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 104 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 105 this in your configuration files. 106 107 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 108 configured" at boot time. 109 110 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 111 with no replacement driver. 112 11319981202: 114 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 115 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 116 11719981201: 118 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 119 src/etc/group: 120 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 121 bind:*:53: 122 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 123 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 124 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 125 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 126 12719981118: 128 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 129 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 130 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 131 132This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 133breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 134and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 135version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 136 137$Id: UPDATING,v 1.19 1999/02/15 08:09:07 imp Exp $ 138