UPDATING revision 60636 
1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
2
3This file is maintained by imp@village.org.  Please send new entries
4directly to him.  See end of file for further details.  For commonly
5done items, please see the end of the file.  Search for 'COMMON
6ITEMS:'
7
820000513:
9	The ethernet drivers were all updated to clean up the BPF handling.
10
112000510:
12	The problems with boot blocks on the alphas have been corrected.
13	This will require some care in updating alphas.  A new libstand
14	is requires for the boot blocks to build properly.
15
1620000502:
17	Modules have been disconnected from the buildworld tree and 
18	connected to the kernel building instead.
19
2020000503:
21	Recompile all kld modules.  Proper version dependency info
22	is now available.
23
242000427:
25	You may need to build gperf
26		cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf &&make depend all install
27	when upgrading from 4.0 -> current.  The build system now uses
28	an option only in -current.
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30
3120000417:
32	The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more
33	acceptible to the binutils maintainers.  You will need to
34	rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native.  One problem
35	binary is the Linux ldconfig.  After your make world, but
36	before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue:
37		brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
38	if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine.
39
4020000320:
41	If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
42	don't work well.  Use pio mode instead.  The easiest way to
43	cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
44		/sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
45	to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
46
4720000319:
48	The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the
49	options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI.  If you are using old
50	style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must
51	include the appropriate option in your kernel config.  Drivers
52	using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with
53	5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001.
54
5520000318:
56	We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party.
57	Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the
58	works.  It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel
59	in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing.
60	Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules
61	that you are loading are up to date.
62
6320000315:
64	If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you
65	need to update your boot blocks as well.  'disklabel -B ad0'
66	will do the trick.  This isn't critical until you remove your
67	wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not
68	boot.
69
7020000315:
71	4.0 RELEASE shipped.  Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
72	to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.
73
74COMMON ITEMS:
75
76	To build a kernel
77	-----------------
78	Update config, genassym and go:
79		config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
80		cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
81		make depend && make
82		make install
83
84	To rebuild everything
85	---------------------
86	make world
87
88FORMAT:
89
90This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
91breakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
92and it only starts on March 15, 2000.  Updating files can found in
93previous releases if your system is older than this.
94
95Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so
96that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
97
98$FreeBSD: head/UPDATING 60636 2000-05-16 07:48:18Z imp $
99