UPDATING revision 43981
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 619990210: 7 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 8 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination (rev 1.147 of 9 src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.) 10 1119990125: 12 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 13 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 14 is in order (or better yet a make world). 15 1619990122: 17 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 18 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 19 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 20 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 21 2219990121: 23 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 24 updates, please see 25 26http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 27 28 for details. 29 30 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 31 information please see 32 33http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 34 or 35http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 36 37 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 38 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 39 4019990120: 41 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 42 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 43 4419990119: 45 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 46 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 47 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 48 config file changes are needed. 49 5019990111: 51 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 52 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 53 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 54 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 55 The instruction can be found in 56 57 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 58 59 It has notes on splash screen too. 60 6119990106: 62 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 63 install the new bootblocks: 64 65 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 66 67 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 68 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 69 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 70 messages about being unable to find library files. The 71 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 72 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 73 recommended. 74 7519990104: 76 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 77 78 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 79 80 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 81 for doing the upgrade. 82 8319981230: 84 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 85 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 86 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 87 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 88 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 89 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 90 for more details. 91 9219981224: 93 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 94 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 95 this in your configuration files. 96 97 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 98 configured" at boot time. 99 100 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 101 with no replacement driver. 102 10319981202: 104 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 105 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 106 10719981201: 108 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 109 src/etc/group: 110 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 111 bind:*:53: 112 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 113 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 114 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 115 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 116 11719981118: 118 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 119 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 120 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 121 122This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 123breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 124and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 125version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 126 127$Id: UPDATING,v 1.17 1999/01/26 03:13:22 imp Exp $ 128