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 method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more
10 acceptible to the binutils maintainers. You will need to
11 rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem
12 binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but
13 before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue:
14 brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
15 if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine.
18 If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
19 don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to
20 cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
21 /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
22 to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
25 The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the
26 options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old
27 style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must
28 include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers
29 using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with
30 5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001.
33 We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party.
34 Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the
35 works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel
36 in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing.
37 Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules
38 that you are loading are up to date.
41 If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you
42 need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0'
43 will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your
44 wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not
48 4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
49 to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.
55 Update config, genassym and go:
56 config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
57 cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
67 This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
68 breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here,
69 and it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in
70 previous releases if your system is older than this.
72 Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so
73 that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.