157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 253dfde79SWarner Losh 3f8c77507SWarner LoshThis file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4dc0dbf5cSWarner Loshdirectly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly 516de1a07SWarner Loshdone items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON 616de1a07SWarner LoshITEMS:' 716de1a07SWarner Losh 8f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh20000319: 9f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the 10f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old 11f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must 12f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers 13f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with 14f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh 5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001. 15f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh 1619cada77SWarner Losh20000318: 1719cada77SWarner Losh We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party. 1819cada77SWarner Losh Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the 1919cada77SWarner Losh works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel 2019cada77SWarner Losh in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing. 2119cada77SWarner Losh Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules 2219cada77SWarner Losh that you are loading are up to date. 23ba228352SWarner Losh 2419cada77SWarner Losh20000315: 25*6d23c382SWarner Losh If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you 26*6d23c382SWarner Losh need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0' 27*6d23c382SWarner Losh will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your 28*6d23c382SWarner Losh wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not 29*6d23c382SWarner Losh boot. 30*6d23c382SWarner Losh 31*6d23c382SWarner Losh20000315: 3219cada77SWarner Losh 4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how 3319cada77SWarner Losh to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x. 3457199806SWarner Losh 35dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS: 36dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh 37dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh To build a kernel 38dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh ----------------- 39dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh Update config, genassym and go: 40dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 41dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 42dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh make depend && make 433645fc1cSWarner Losh make install 44dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh 4516de1a07SWarner Losh To rebuild everything 4616de1a07SWarner Losh --------------------- 47759f0aefSWarner Losh make world 48759f0aefSWarner Losh 49dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT: 50dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh 511fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 521fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 53f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshand it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in 54f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshprevious releases if your system is older than this. 551fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 563645fc1cSWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so 573645fc1cSWarner Loshthat the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 58f8c77507SWarner Losh 5997d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 60