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@@ -5,17 +5,21 @@ directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly
done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON
ITEMS:'
+20000417:
+ The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more
+ acceptible to the binutils maintainers. You will need to
+ rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem
+ binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but
+ before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue:
+ brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
+ if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine.
+
20000320:
- * * * W A R N I N G * * *
- The ata driver has some issues with the Apollo MVP3 chipset.
- Drives work only in pio mode and must be set to pio mode early
- int the boot process. Do not upgrade. If you must upgrade
- in the face of this, add
+ If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
+ don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to
+ cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
/sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
- to the start of /etc/rc.conf. Even if you do this, any and
- all damage to your system is at your own risk. You have been
- warned.
- * * * W A R N I N G * * *
+ to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
20000319:
The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the
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