UPDATING revision 61057
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 820000522: 9 A new set up binutils went into the tree today. Anybdoy 10 building a kernel after this point is advised that they need 11 to rebuild their binutils (or better yet do a 12 buildworld/installworld) before building a new kernel. 13 14 Due to bugs in binutils, using malloc options (eg /etc/malloc.conf 15 or MALLOC_OPTIONS env var) J will cause ld to dump core. It 16 is recommended that you don't set this option until the problem 17 is resolved. 18 1920000513: 20 The ethernet drivers were all updated to clean up the BPF handling. 21 2220000510: 23 The problems with boot blocks on the alphas have been corrected. 24 This will require some care in updating alphas. A new libstand 25 is requires for the boot blocks to build properly. 26 2720000503: 28 Recompile all kld modules. Proper version dependency info 29 is now available. 30 3120000502: 32 Modules have been disconnected from the buildworld tree and 33 connected to the kernel building instead. 34 352000427: 36 You may need to build gperf 37 cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf && make depend all install 38 when upgrading from 4.0 -> current. The build system now uses 39 an option only in -current. 40 4120000417: 42 The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more 43 acceptible to the binutils maintainers. You will need to 44 rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem 45 binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but 46 before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue: 47 brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig 48 if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine. 49 5020000320: 51 If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they 52 don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to 53 cope if you have a problem combination is to add: 54 /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio 55 to the start of /etc/rc.conf. 56 5720000319: 58 The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the 59 options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old 60 style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must 61 include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers 62 using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with 63 5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001. 64 6520000318: 66 We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party. 67 Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the 68 works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel 69 in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing. 70 Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules 71 that you are loading are up to date. 72 7320000315: 74 If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you 75 need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0' 76 will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your 77 wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not 78 boot. 79 8020000315: 81 4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how 82 to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x. 83 84COMMON ITEMS: 85 86 To build a kernel 87 ----------------- 88 Update config, genassym and go: 89 config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 90 cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 91 make depend && make 92 make install 93 94 To rebuild everything 95 --------------------- 96 make world 97 98FORMAT: 99 100This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 101breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 102and it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in 103previous releases if your system is older than this. 104 105Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so 106that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 107 108$FreeBSD: head/UPDATING 61057 2000-05-29 01:49:56Z imp $ 109