UPDATING: Add a notes for iwm(4) firmware and pkgbase users

Sponsored by: Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG

usr.bin/bc: remove OpenBSD derived bc and dc commands

In 2020, an improved implementation of the bc and dc commands
developed by Gavin D. Howard has been imported into FreeBSD.
It has replaced the O

usr.bin/bc: remove OpenBSD derived bc and dc commands

In 2020, an improved implementation of the bc and dc commands
developed by Gavin D. Howard has been imported into FreeBSD.
It has replaced the OpenBSD-derived versions of these commands
in all currently supported FreeBSD releases.

The OpenBSD versions could still be built using the WITHOUT_GH_BC
option. There have been no reports of problems or unexpected
deviations from the OpenBSD version for some time, therefore
keeping the OpenBSD version is no longer required in FreeBSD.

This commit removes the option to build the OpenBSD version and
corresponding source files from -CURRENT. No MFC is planned, all
currently released FreeBSD versions should retain the build option.

The WITHOUT_GH_BC option is no longer accepted and will cause
make buildworld to fail.

Reviewed by: des, emaste
Approved by: des
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D46876

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rc: Remove rc_fast_and_loose

The rc_fast_and_loose variable allowed rc(8) to start services
by sourcing them into rc's own shell environment. Normally, each rc
service script is started by being sou

rc: Remove rc_fast_and_loose

The rc_fast_and_loose variable allowed rc(8) to start services
by sourcing them into rc's own shell environment. Normally, each rc
service script is started by being sourced into its own subshell
instead. The feature was meant to speed up rc(8) by avoiding the extra
forking necessary to spawn subshells.

In practice, the feature has been broken for a long time now. One of the
reasons is that some rc service scripts call the exit builtin to return
non-zero error codes, which not only terminates the service subshell
but also rc(8) when rc_fast_and_loose is enabled. For example,
a system running any of the supported FreeBSD releases
with rc_fast_and_loose=yes would abort rc(8) as early as rc.d/hostid,
due to an "exit 0".

Fixing rc_fast_and_loose support would require rewriting some rc scripts
to support being sourced directly into rc(8) process. This would muddy
the code base and also would prove difficult to maintain long term
as this is simply not how rc(8) users write scripts. The potential
performance benefits are unlikely to be significant even for use cases
such as Morello under qemu.

Instead, remove support for rc_fast_and_loose completely from rc(8)
and inform users about the change.

PR: 282255
Reviewed by: brooks, christos, mhorne
Approved by: christos (mentor), markj (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47264

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UPDATING: Note higher-risk than I'd like ciss changes

UPDATING: Add belated note about hints for old-school ISA devices

Back in July, jhb started a cleanup of our hints. We've removed several
that have been a problem for a long time (including some tha

UPDATING: Add belated note about hints for old-school ISA devices

Back in July, jhb started a cleanup of our hints. We've removed several
that have been a problem for a long time (including some that had
workarounds for VM images). We've also moved uarts to ACPI only, so they
act more like wiring than enumeration hints. Add a note about this and
ways you can find if your system is affected. Old APU1 routers with
coreboot are affected, but newer APU2 devices are not. Others likely are
as well. The affected systems will be primarily very ancient systems
that pre-date ACPI (i586 arch pentium and older typically), as well as
some older coreboot and similar non-conventional boot firmware setups
(primarily in the embedded space). FreeBSD 15 will require ACPI or
PNPBIOS enumeration for everything by default, so any non-enumerated
devices via these means will require hints. Add notes on how to grep
for affected systems before upgrading.

Sponsored by: Netflix

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UPDATING: increase visibility of footnotes

MFC after: 3 days

Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1382

Add UPDATING note about running make delete-old after libc++ 18 upgrade

PR: 279692
MFC after: 3 days

UPDATING: remove 20240813 DMAR entry

The associated commit has been reverted and DMAR is not enabled by
default any longer.

Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revisi

UPDATING: remove 20240813 DMAR entry

The associated commit has been reverted and DMAR is not enabled by
default any longer.

Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D46474

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UPDATING: Add note about DMAR

DMAR crashes my laptop on boot, I had to disable it in the boot
laoder. Add a note until this is handled more gracefully.

Sponsored by: Netflix

Do not clean (in buildworld/buildkernel) by default

As discussed on the freebsd-arch mailing list[1]. For historical
reasons FreeBSD's buildworld and buildkernel targets started by cleaning
the obj

Do not clean (in buildworld/buildkernel) by default

As discussed on the freebsd-arch mailing list[1]. For historical
reasons FreeBSD's buildworld and buildkernel targets started by cleaning
the object tree, for traditional (non-metamode) builds.

Cleaning is not necessary when dependencies are properly tracked, and we
have a somewhat kludgey script[2] to handle some known cases where deps
were mishandled by traditional builds. Be consistent with the vast
majority of open source build systems by default, and do not clean at
the beginning of buildworld or buildkernel.

Users may set WITH_CLEAN in src.conf(5) to restore the previous
behaviour, or run `make cleanworld` and/or `make cleankernel` before
starting a build.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2024-July/000727.html
[2] tools/build/depend-cleanup.sh

Reviewed by: jhb, imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D46172

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armv6: Remove support for building armv6

With it planned that armv7 will be the only 32-bit kernel when 15.0 is
released remove support for armv6.

Remove the top level build infrastructure. It was

armv6: Remove support for building armv6

With it planned that armv7 will be the only 32-bit kernel when 15.0 is
released remove support for armv6.

Remove the top level build infrastructure. It was already removed from
universe, this just stops it from being built directly.

Reviewed by: mmel, emaste
Sponsored by: Arm Ltd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45634

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ifconfig: make interface address without mask an error

In commit d8237b955528, as part of the deprecation of IPv4 address
classes, Mike Karels introduced a warning in ifconfig for setting an
address

ifconfig: make interface address without mask an error

In commit d8237b955528, as part of the deprecation of IPv4 address
classes, Mike Karels introduced a warning in ifconfig for setting an
address without a width or mask. The commit message says "This will
hopefully be an error in the future."

As the warning has been included in releases from FreeBSD 13.1 on, and
sufficient time has passed, turn this into an error.

Reviewed by: allanjude, olce, grembo, philip, gordon
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45585

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package: move OpenBSM auditing into its own package

Move auditing runtime (auditd, etc.) into the new FreeBSD-audit package.
Also move the runtime OpenBSM manual pages from libbsm into auditd so
the

package: move OpenBSM auditing into its own package

Move auditing runtime (auditd, etc.) into the new FreeBSD-audit package.
Also move the runtime OpenBSM manual pages from libbsm into auditd so
they get installed with the right package.

Add an UPDATING entry noting the new packages.

Reviewed by: imp, manu
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1197

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UPDATING: add entry for recent pkgbase changes

Reviewed by: imp, manu
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1196

libc: link libsys as a auxiliary filter library

At runtime, when rtld loads libc it will also load libsys. For each
symbol that is present in both, the libsys one will override the libc
one. It co

libc: link libsys as a auxiliary filter library

At runtime, when rtld loads libc it will also load libsys. For each
symbol that is present in both, the libsys one will override the libc
one. It continues to be the case that program need only link against
libc (usually implicitly). The linkage to libsys is automatic.

Reviewed by: kib, emaste, imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/908

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stand/lua: always allow overriding with local config files

Loader now also read configuration files listed in local_loader_conf_files.
Files listed here are the last ones read. And /boot/loader.conf

stand/lua: always allow overriding with local config files

Loader now also read configuration files listed in local_loader_conf_files.
Files listed here are the last ones read. And /boot/loader.conf.local was
moved from loader_conf_files to local_loader_conf_files leaving only
loader.conf and device.hints in loader_conf_files by default.

The idea is to ensure local_loader_conf_files, i.e., /boot/loader.conf.local,
can always be used to override other user defined settings.

So the sequencing is now as follow:

1. Bootstrap:
/boot/defaults/loader.conf

2. Read loader_conf_files files:
/boot/device.hints
/boot/loader.conf

3. Read loader_conf_dirs files:
/boot/loader.conf.d/*.conf

4. And finally, rread local_loader_conf_files files:
/boot/loader.conf.local

Reviewed by: imp, kevans
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/759

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Revert "stand/lua: always allow overriding with local config files"

This reverts commit d3d0b735571d9562812ce5b343a6e91f7a795dbe. no mail
sent out, and the commit message was wrong.

Sponsored by:

Revert "stand/lua: always allow overriding with local config files"

This reverts commit d3d0b735571d9562812ce5b343a6e91f7a795dbe. no mail
sent out, and the commit message was wrong.

Sponsored by: Netflix

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stand/lua: always allow overriding with local config files

Loader now also read configuration files listed in local_loader_conf_files.
Files listed here are the last ones read. And /boot/loader.conf

stand/lua: always allow overriding with local config files

Loader now also read configuration files listed in local_loader_conf_files.
Files listed here are the last ones read. And /boot/loader.conf.local was
moved from loader_conf_files to local_loader_conf_files leaving only
loader.conf and device.hints in loader_conf_files by default.

The idea is to ensure local_loader_conf_files, i.e., /boot/loader.conf.local,
can always be used to override other user defined settings.

So the sequencing is now as follow:

1. Bootstrap:
/boot/defaults/loader.conf

2. Read loader_conf_files files:
/boot/device.hints
/boot/loader.conf

3. Read loader_conf_dirs files:
/boot/loader.conf.d/*.conf

4. And finally, rread local_loader_conf_files files:
/boot/loader.conf.local

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Add a note about sendmail 8.18.1's stricter SMTP protocol enforcement

UPDATING: Add an entry for the __FreeBSD_version bump to 1500010

UPDATING: Add unset hint.acpi.0.disabled as workaround for no ACPI

Explicitly add the 'unset hint.acpi.0.disabled' command to work around
this problem.

Sponsored by: Netflix

stand: bandaide for acpi

Old binaries do not set acpi.rsdp early enough. So when we boot with an
older loader.efi from an ESP that's not been updated, we assume there's
no ACPI on this system. This

stand: bandaide for acpi

Old binaries do not set acpi.rsdp early enough. So when we boot with an
older loader.efi from an ESP that's not been updated, we assume there's
no ACPI on this system. This is unwise. Put a band-aide on this until we
can implement a proper 'feature' variable that the binary reports so we
can do conditionals for things like this in the future.

This is at best a rapid-response stop-gap.

Glanced at by: kevans
Sponsored by: Netflix

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Revert "awk: Merge upstream 2nd Edition Awk Book"

The pre-push testing I did turned out to be testing the old version with
the old testsuite (for reasons I don't understnad). There's issues with
the

Revert "awk: Merge upstream 2nd Edition Awk Book"

The pre-push testing I did turned out to be testing the old version with
the old testsuite (for reasons I don't understnad). There's issues with
the new version, the new test in the suite or (likely) both. Revert
until they can be chased down.

This should also fix the github CI that's gone red since this commit.

This reverts commit 3fd60a6b73ac01a72df89751f173970fae4cae73, reversing
changes made to 194df014feebd8b169b41ecd75ae73d63a792d6b.

Sponsored by: Netflix

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awk: Merge upstream 2nd Edition Awk Book

Merge in the November 2nd, 2023 version of one true awk.

This brings in Unicode support, CSV support and a number of bug fixes.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Revi

awk: Merge upstream 2nd Edition Awk Book

Merge in the November 2nd, 2023 version of one true awk.

This brings in Unicode support, CSV support and a number of bug fixes.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: delphij
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42447

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Retire LLD_IS_LD option

The option was added to parallel the CLANG_IS_CC which was removed in
commit 20a66ab4bf8511e51e11321b775d36c92e77fa69.

Reviewed by: imp, dim, emaste
Differential Revision: h

Retire LLD_IS_LD option

The option was added to parallel the CLANG_IS_CC which was removed in
commit 20a66ab4bf8511e51e11321b775d36c92e77fa69.

Reviewed by: imp, dim, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42575

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