1 Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
3 This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
4 directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly
5 done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON
9 The ethernet drivers were all updated to clean up the BPF handling.
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.
17 Modules have been disconnected from the buildworld tree and
18 connected to the kernel building instead.
21 Recompile all kld modules. Proper version dependency info
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
71 4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
72 to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.
78 Update config, genassym and go:
79 config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
80 cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
90 This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
91 breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here,
92 and it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in
93 previous releases if your system is older than this.
95 Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so
96 that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.