157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 253dfde79SWarner Losh 3f8c77507SWarner LoshThis file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4ea31d04dSWarner Loshdirectly to him. See end of file for further details. 5ea31d04dSWarner Losh 60a3f3aa2SWarner Losh19991223: 70a3f3aa2SWarner Losh Building linux and svr4 compatibility into the kernel now 80a3f3aa2SWarner Losh requires /usr/bin/genassym. Go to /usr/src/usr.bin/genassym, 90a3f3aa2SWarner Losh do "make obj ; make clean depend all install" before building 100a3f3aa2SWarner Losh your kernel. 110a3f3aa2SWarner Losh 125525aae6SWarner Losh19991218: 135525aae6SWarner Losh sendmail.cf has moved from /etc/sendmail.cf to 140a3f3aa2SWarner Losh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. You may need to adjust /etc/rc.conf 150a3f3aa2SWarner Losh and /etc/rc to cope as well as moving sendmail.cf. 165525aae6SWarner Losh 175525aae6SWarner Losh19991216: 180a3f3aa2SWarner Losh ntp 4.0.98 has replaced the ancient xntpd. The daemon name 195525aae6SWarner Losh changed from xntpd to ntpd, so you may need to update your 205525aae6SWarner Losh /etc/rc.conf file. The ntp.conf files are compatible with the 215525aae6SWarner Losh old release, unless you are using a local reference clock. 225525aae6SWarner Losh Details about ntp4 can be found at http://www.ntp.org/. 235525aae6SWarner Losh 245525aae6SWarner Losh xntpd will be cvs removed from the repo in about a week. 255525aae6SWarner Losh 26fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991213: 27fda36f2fSWarner Losh Soren updated the ata driver. Please update to at least this 28fda36f2fSWarner Losh version before submitting bug reports. 29fda36f2fSWarner Losh 30fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991210: 31fda36f2fSWarner Losh The ata driver has become the primary ata/ide/atapi driver in 32fda36f2fSWarner Losh the kernel. The wd driver is obsolete. You should upgrade your 33fda36f2fSWarner Losh machine to the new ata driver. You will need to follow the 34fda36f2fSWarner Losh directions for updating the devices in the 19991205 entry. You 35fda36f2fSWarner Losh will need to update all occurances of wd to ad in your config files 36fda36f2fSWarner Losh (/etc/rc.conf, /etc/fstab, etc). A compatibility device exists 37fda36f2fSWarner Losh for wd for the time being, but once you have determined that 38fda36f2fSWarner Losh ata is working for you, transition to the new ad devices. 39fda36f2fSWarner Losh 40e306923fSPoul-Henning Kamp19991205: 41eeef0dd1SWarner Losh Block devices are going away. You will need to update your /dev 42a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh tree with a fresh copy of MAKEDEV for things to always work in 43a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh the future. fsck is unable to cope with dirty file systems 44a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh after this change, so it may work for you or it may not. 45a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 46a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before 47a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh starting the following: 48a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 49a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh For N in the list of disks 50fda36f2fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV N # eg ad0 51a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh for M in the list of slices 52fda36f2fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a 53a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 54a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh *** All uses of block devices must be converted to char devices. 55a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh *** Likely the only thing impacted is dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf 56a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 57a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh19991204: 58fda36f2fSWarner Losh The dc interface has replaced al, ax, dm, pn and mx. The former 59fda36f2fSWarner Losh have been removed. 60fda36f2fSWarner Losh 61fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991204: 62a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh Support for the old 'sd' device names has been removed in 63a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh favor of 'da'. Please update your /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.conf 64a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh and any other places you might have sd names cached. 65a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh Generally these changes are as simple as s=/dev/sd=/dev/da=g, 66a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh but be careful to make sure that things are really that 67a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh simple. You may also need to create /dev entries for the da 68a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh devices as well. 69a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 70a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before 71a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh starting the following: 72a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 73a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh For N in the list of da disks on your system 74a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV daN 75a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh for M in the list of slices 76a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV daNsMa 77a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh19991203: 78a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh BAD144 support has been removed. Cope or replace the hardware. 79e306923fSPoul-Henning Kamp 80fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991129: 81fda36f2fSWarner Losh ALPHA users take note. All klds will need to be recompiled for 82fda36f2fSWarner Losh kernels build after this date. It is a good time to update since 83fda36f2fSWarner Losh pal.s will be going away soon. 84fda36f2fSWarner Losh 857a92b31cSWarner Losh19991126: 867a92b31cSWarner Losh MFS_ROOT and MFS_ROOT_SIZE are gone, replaced by MD_ROOT and 877a92b31cSWarner Losh MD_ROOT_SIZE options in the md driver. md driver now deals with 887a92b31cSWarner Losh the hacks. You should add md driver to kerneles that have 897a92b31cSWarner Losh MFS_ROOT, et al. See GENERIC or LINT for details. 907a92b31cSWarner Losh 9163f52da7SWarner Losh19991125: 9263f52da7SWarner Losh The ep changed a while ago and can no longer be used with hard 9363f52da7SWarner Losh wired addresses in the config file. 9463f52da7SWarner Losh 95fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991122: 96fda36f2fSWarner Losh The bridge drivers for sound cards have been committed. Please 97fda36f2fSWarner Losh see LINT for instructions for your card, if it still works at 98fda36f2fSWarner Losh all. 99fda36f2fSWarner Losh 1001a50e0c7SWarner Losh19991113: 1011a50e0c7SWarner Losh Gcc 2.95.2 is now the default compiler. 1021a50e0c7SWarner Losh 1030a3f3aa2SWarner Losh19991030: 1040a3f3aa2SWarner Losh /etc/radius.conf file format has changed.The format change is 1050a3f3aa2SWarner Losh as follows. Each server line in the file should now begin 1060a3f3aa2SWarner Losh with a new field containing either "auth" for RADIUS 1070a3f3aa2SWarner Losh authentication, or "acct" for RADIUS accounting. Formerly 1080a3f3aa2SWarner Losh only authentication was supported. If the first field isn't 1090a3f3aa2SWarner Losh "auth" or "acct" then the code assumes that "auth" is 1100a3f3aa2SWarner Losh intended. (That's the compatibility hack.) 1110a3f3aa2SWarner Losh 11225c3f405SWarner Losh19991015: 11325c3f405SWarner Losh PCCARD has been updated to attach pcic to the isa bus. Therefore 11425c3f405SWarner Losh you will need to modify kernel config files that have pcic/card 11525c3f405SWarner Losh in them as follows: 11625c3f405SWarner Losh controller pcic0 at isa? 11725c3f405SWarner Losh controller pcic1 at isa? 11825c3f405SWarner Losh controller card0 11925c3f405SWarner Losh 12073c86a1fSWarner Losh19990929: 12173c86a1fSWarner Losh The sigset_t datatype has been changed from an integral type 12273c86a1fSWarner Losh to a compound type and can hold 128 signals. Syscalls directly 12373c86a1fSWarner Losh or indirectly using the new sigset_t have been added as to 12420d1019bSChris Costello maintain compatibility with existing binaries. A new kernel must 12573c86a1fSWarner Losh be made and installed and booted with before a make world can 12673c86a1fSWarner Losh be done. 12773c86a1fSWarner Losh 12860dbe536SWarner Losh19990919: 12960dbe536SWarner Losh New jail syscall format requires recompilation of jail(8) with 13060dbe536SWarner Losh fresh headers installed (or a make world will do it for you). 13160dbe536SWarner Losh 13260dbe536SWarner Losh19990914: 13360dbe536SWarner Losh Matt Dillon checked in many vm related things and sent a heads up 13460dbe536SWarner Losh to -current urging caution and to report vm problems to him. 13560dbe536SWarner Losh As of the 19th, no killer problems have been reported, but you 13660dbe536SWarner Losh have been warned. 13760dbe536SWarner Losh 1385f83e348SWarner Losh19990908: 1395f83e348SWarner Losh The new miibus has been added to the system. If you are using 1405f83e348SWarner Losh the dm, rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, wb or xl drivers, you need to 1415f83e348SWarner Losh add "controller miibus0" to your config file. 1425f83e348SWarner Losh 143d9806965SNick Hibma19990905: 144d9806965SNick Hibma /var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the 145d9806965SNick Hibma log files in one place. 1465f83e348SWarner Losh 14730e90e8bSWarner Losh19990831: 14863f52da7SWarner Losh tn3270 has been removed from the base system and added as a port. 14930e90e8bSWarner Losh 150f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990830: 151f8a59eaeSWarner Losh User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead 152f8a59eaeSWarner Losh of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under 153f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior. 154f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 15530e90e8bSWarner Losh19990828: 15630e90e8bSWarner Losh RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD. This will cause huge cvsup 15730e90e8bSWarner Losh updates. 15830e90e8bSWarner Losh 159f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990821: 160f8a59eaeSWarner Losh On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to 161f8a59eaeSWarner Losh readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version 162f8a59eaeSWarner Losh number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that 163f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was 16478bcb44aSBill Fumerola not sufficient to warrant the version number bump. 165f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 166f8a59eaeSWarner Losh Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform 167f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the below immediately before your next ``make world'': 168f8a59eaeSWarner Losh cd /usr/lib 169f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ls -l libreadline.so.4 170f8a59eaeSWarner Losh (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4) 171f8a59eaeSWarner Losh mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3 172f8a59eaeSWarner Losh rm -f libreadline.so 173f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so 174f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 1757eedd934SWarner Losh19990801: 1767eedd934SWarner Losh Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 1777eedd934SWarner Losh pccardd for new kernel. 1787eedd934SWarner Losh 179882984b3SWarner Losh19980725: 180882984b3SWarner Losh The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to 181882984b3SWarner Losh recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel. 182882984b3SWarner Losh 183882984b3SWarner Losh19990715: 184882984b3SWarner Losh The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to 185882984b3SWarner Losh change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels. 186882984b3SWarner Losh 187e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704: 188e5bd655aSWarner Losh src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 18995d18cfcSWarner Losh src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 190e5bd655aSWarner Losh 191e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702: 192e5bd655aSWarner Losh Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 193e5bd655aSWarner Losh the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 194e5bd655aSWarner Losh mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 195e5bd655aSWarner Losh CONFIGURATION section. 196e5bd655aSWarner Losh 197e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628: 198e5bd655aSWarner Losh Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 199e5bd655aSWarner Losh change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 200e5bd655aSWarner Losh user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 201e5bd655aSWarner Losh 202e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627: 203e5bd655aSWarner Losh Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 204e5bd655aSWarner Losh man page for details. 205e5bd655aSWarner Losh 206ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 207ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 208ed478e7cSWarner Losh 209075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 210075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 211075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 212075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 2136ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 2146ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 215075eeff2SWarner Losh 216a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 217a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 218a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 219a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 220a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 221a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 222a883e9d3SWarner Losh 223a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 224a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 225a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 226a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 227a883e9d3SWarner Losh 22807b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 22907b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 23007b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 23107b72539SWarner Losh 23207b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 23307b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 23407b72539SWarner Losh 23509fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 23609fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 23709fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 23809fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 23909fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 24009fcf3f9SWarner Losh 24109fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 24209fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 24309fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 24409fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 24509fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 24609fcf3f9SWarner Losh 247ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 248ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 249ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 250ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 251ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 252ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 253ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 254ea31d04dSWarner Losh 255ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 256ea31d04dSWarner Losh 257ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 258ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 259ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 260ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 261ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 262ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 263ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 264ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 265ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 266ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 267ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 268ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 269ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 270ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 271ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 272ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 273ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 274ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 275ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 276ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 277ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 278ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 279f8c77507SWarner Losh 280d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 281d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 282d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 283d24adca8SWarner Losh 284d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 285d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 286d24adca8SWarner Losh 287ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 288ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 289ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 290ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 291ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 292ea31d04dSWarner Losh 293d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 294d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 295d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 296d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 297d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 298d24adca8SWarner Losh 299d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 300d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 301ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 302d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 303ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 304d5ca0636SWarner Losh 3051f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 3061f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 3071f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 3081f692d40SWarner Losh 3091f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 31081725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 31181725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 31281725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 31381725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 31481725689SWarner Losh 31581725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 31681725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 31781725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 31881725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 31981725689SWarner Losh undefined. 32081725689SWarner Losh 32181725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 32281725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 323420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 32481725689SWarner Losh make clean 32581725689SWarner Losh make all 32681725689SWarner Losh make install 32781725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 32881725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 32981725689SWarner Losh 33081725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 33181725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 33281725689SWarner Losh 333ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 334ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 335ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 336ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 337ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 338fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 339fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 340fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 341fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 342fe9af953SWarner Losh 343fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 344fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 345fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 346fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 347fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 348fe9af953SWarner Losh 349ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 350fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 351fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 352ce32355fSWarner Losh 353f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 354f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 355f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 3561fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 3570edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 3580edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 3597dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 3607dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 3610edeb9e7SWarner Losh 3621fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 3631fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 3640edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 36557199806SWarner Losh 3667dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 3677dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 3687dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 3697dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 3707dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 3717dd38e55SWarner Losh 3729a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 3739a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 3749a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 3759a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 3769a3105eeSWarner Losh 3779a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 3789a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 3799a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 3809a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 3819a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 3829a3105eeSWarner Losh 3839a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 3848cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 3858cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 3863652181cSWarner Losh 3878cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 3883652181cSWarner Losh 3898cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 3908cd37f69SWarner Losh 3918cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 3928cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 3933652181cSWarner Losh 3948cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 3958cd37f69SWarner Losh or 3968cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 3973652181cSWarner Losh 3988cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 3998cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 4008cd37f69SWarner Losh 4018cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 4028cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 4038cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 4048cd37f69SWarner Losh 405ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 406ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 407ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 408ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 409ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 410ad56ea87SWarner Losh 41157199806SWarner Losh19990111: 412a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 413a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 414a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 415a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 416a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 41757199806SWarner Losh 4187dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 41957199806SWarner Losh 420a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 42157199806SWarner Losh 42257199806SWarner Losh19990106: 4239857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 424db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 42557199806SWarner Losh 4267dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 42757199806SWarner Losh 4289ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 4299ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 4309ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 4319857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 4329857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 4339857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 4349857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 43557199806SWarner Losh 43657199806SWarner Losh19990104: 4372c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 43857199806SWarner Losh 4397dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 44057199806SWarner Losh 4412c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 4422c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 44357199806SWarner Losh 44457199806SWarner Losh19981230: 445d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 446e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 447e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 448e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 449e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 450e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 451e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 45257199806SWarner Losh 45357199806SWarner Losh19981224: 454355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 455355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 456355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 45757199806SWarner Losh 458355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 459355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 46057199806SWarner Losh 461355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 462355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 46357199806SWarner Losh 46457199806SWarner Losh19981202: 465ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 466ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 46757199806SWarner Losh 46857199806SWarner Losh19981201: 469ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 470ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 471ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 472ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 473ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 474ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 475ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 476ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 47757199806SWarner Losh 47857199806SWarner Losh19981118: 47953dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 48053dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 48153dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 48257199806SWarner Losh 4831fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 4841fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 48560dbe536SWarner Loshand it only starts on November 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 4861fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 4871fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 488f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 489f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 490f8c77507SWarner Losh 49197d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 492