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@@ -1,7 +1,40 @@ Updating Information for FreeBSD current users This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries -to him. See end of file for further details. +directly to him. See end of file for further details. + +19990416: + new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were + initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a + new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that + GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when + upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the + breakage to current@freebsd.org). + + As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are + + o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, + but the new pccard code needs to be completed. + o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems + inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. + o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously + they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common + duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people + that wired their scsi disk entries. + o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the + isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. + o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not + probe the second pci bus. + o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change + with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double + check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true + for cards on different buses. + o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when + it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. + o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not + guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this + in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well + as scripts that parse dmesg output. 19990414: cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g @@ -10,6 +43,12 @@ to him. See end of file for further details. cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. + Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do + make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around + this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a + pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you + the rest of the way with a -current source base. + 19990413: Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting @@ -18,9 +57,9 @@ to him. See end of file for further details. 19990413: Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to - egcs, not supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like + egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or - things (including netscape) will not work. + progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 19990409: NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from @@ -208,4 +247,4 @@ version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. -$Id: UPDATING,v 1.28 1999/04/13 06:10:53 imp Exp $ +$Id: UPDATING,v 1.29 1999/04/15 04:36:45 imp Exp $ |
