UPDATING revision 44848
1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users 2 3This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4to him. See end of file for further details. 5 619990316: 7 The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 8 been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 9 "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 10 1119990314: 12 For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 13 please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 14 -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 15 be fixed in the future. 16 1719990309: 18 New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 19 details. 20 2119990225: 22 struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 23 usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 24 2519990214: 26 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 27 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 28 for proper configuration details. 29 3019990210: 31 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 32 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 33 3419990209: 35 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 36 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 37 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 38 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 39 4019990125: 41 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 42 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 43 is in order (or better yet a make world). 44 4519990122: 46 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 47 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 48 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 49 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 50 5119990121: 52 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 53 updates, please see 54 55http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 56 57 for details. 58 59 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 60 information please see 61 62http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 63 or 64http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 65 66 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 67 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 68 6919990120: 70 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 71 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 72 7319990119: 74 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 75 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 76 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 77 config file changes are needed. 78 7919990111: 80 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 81 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 82 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 83 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 84 The instruction can be found in 85 86 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 87 88 It has notes on splash screen too. 89 9019990106: 91 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 92 install the new bootblocks: 93 94 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 95 96 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 97 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 98 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 99 messages about being unable to find library files. The 100 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 101 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 102 recommended. 103 10419990104: 105 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 106 107 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 108 109 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 110 for doing the upgrade. 111 11219981230: 113 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 114 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 115 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 116 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 117 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 118 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 119 for more details. 120 12119981224: 122 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 123 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 124 this in your configuration files. 125 126 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 127 configured" at boot time. 128 129 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 130 with no replacement driver. 131 13219981202: 133 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 134 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 135 13619981201: 137 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 138 src/etc/group: 139 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 140 bind:*:53: 141 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 142 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 143 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 144 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 145 14619981118: 147 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 148 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 149 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 150 151This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 152breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 153and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 154version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 155 156Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 157the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 158 159$Id: UPDATING,v 1.22 1999/03/10 06:21:28 imp Exp $ 160