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 67eedd934SWarner Losh19990801: 77eedd934SWarner Losh Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 87eedd934SWarner Losh pccardd for new kernel. 97eedd934SWarner Losh 10e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704: 11e5bd655aSWarner Losh src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 1295d18cfcSWarner Losh src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 13e5bd655aSWarner Losh 14e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702: 15e5bd655aSWarner Losh Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 16e5bd655aSWarner Losh the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 17e5bd655aSWarner Losh mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 18e5bd655aSWarner Losh CONFIGURATION section. 19e5bd655aSWarner Losh 20e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628: 21e5bd655aSWarner Losh Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 22e5bd655aSWarner Losh change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 23e5bd655aSWarner Losh user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 24e5bd655aSWarner Losh 25e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627: 26e5bd655aSWarner Losh Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 27e5bd655aSWarner Losh man page for details. 28e5bd655aSWarner Losh 29ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 30ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 31ed478e7cSWarner Losh 32075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 33075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 34075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 35075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 366ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 376ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 38075eeff2SWarner Losh 39a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 40a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 41a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 42a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 43a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 44a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 45a883e9d3SWarner Losh 46a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 47a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 48a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 49a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 50a883e9d3SWarner Losh 5107b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 5207b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 5307b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 5407b72539SWarner Losh 5507b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 5607b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 5707b72539SWarner Losh 5809fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 5909fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 6009fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 6109fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 6209fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 6309fcf3f9SWarner Losh 6409fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 6509fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 6609fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 6709fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 6809fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 6909fcf3f9SWarner Losh 70ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 71ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 72ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 73ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 74ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 75ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 76ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 77ea31d04dSWarner Losh 78ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 79ea31d04dSWarner Losh 80ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 81ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 82ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 83ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 84ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 85ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 86ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 87ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 88ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 89ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 90ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 91ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 92ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 93ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 94ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 95ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 96ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 97ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 98ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 99ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 100ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 101ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 102f8c77507SWarner Losh 103d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 104d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 105d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 106d24adca8SWarner Losh 107d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 108d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 109d24adca8SWarner Losh 110ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 111ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 112ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 113ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 114ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 115ea31d04dSWarner Losh 116d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 117d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 118d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 119d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 120d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 121d24adca8SWarner Losh 122d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 123d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 124ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 125d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 126ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 127d5ca0636SWarner Losh 1281f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 1291f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 1301f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 1311f692d40SWarner Losh 1321f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 13381725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 13481725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 13581725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 13681725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 13781725689SWarner Losh 13881725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 13981725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 14081725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 14181725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 14281725689SWarner Losh undefined. 14381725689SWarner Losh 14481725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 14581725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 146420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 14781725689SWarner Losh make clean 14881725689SWarner Losh make all 14981725689SWarner Losh make install 15081725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 15181725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 15281725689SWarner Losh 15381725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 15481725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 15581725689SWarner Losh 156ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 157ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 158ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 159ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 160ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 161fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 162fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 163fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 164fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 165fe9af953SWarner Losh 166fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 167fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 168fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 169fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 170fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 171fe9af953SWarner Losh 172ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 173fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 174fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 175ce32355fSWarner Losh 176f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 177f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 178f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 1791fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 1800edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 1810edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 1827dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 1837dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 1840edeb9e7SWarner Losh 1851fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 1861fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 1870edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 18857199806SWarner Losh 1897dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 1907dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 1917dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 1927dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 1937dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 1947dd38e55SWarner Losh 1959a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 1969a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 1979a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 1989a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 1999a3105eeSWarner Losh 2009a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 2019a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 2029a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 2039a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 2049a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 2059a3105eeSWarner Losh 2069a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 2078cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 2088cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 2093652181cSWarner Losh 2108cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 2113652181cSWarner Losh 2128cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 2138cd37f69SWarner Losh 2148cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 2158cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 2163652181cSWarner Losh 2178cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 2188cd37f69SWarner Losh or 2198cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 2203652181cSWarner Losh 2218cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 2228cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 2238cd37f69SWarner Losh 2248cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 2258cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 2268cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 2278cd37f69SWarner Losh 228ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 229ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 230ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 231ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 232ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 233ad56ea87SWarner Losh 23457199806SWarner Losh19990111: 235a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 236a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 237a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 238a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 239a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 24057199806SWarner Losh 2417dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 24257199806SWarner Losh 243a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 24457199806SWarner Losh 24557199806SWarner Losh19990106: 2469857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 247db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 24857199806SWarner Losh 2497dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 25057199806SWarner Losh 2519ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 2529ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 2539ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 2549857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 2559857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 2569857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 2579857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 25857199806SWarner Losh 25957199806SWarner Losh19990104: 2602c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 26157199806SWarner Losh 2627dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 26357199806SWarner Losh 2642c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 2652c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 26657199806SWarner Losh 26757199806SWarner Losh19981230: 268d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 269e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 270e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 271e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 272e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 273e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 274e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 27557199806SWarner Losh 27657199806SWarner Losh19981224: 277355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 278355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 279355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 28057199806SWarner Losh 281355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 282355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 28357199806SWarner Losh 284355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 285355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 28657199806SWarner Losh 28757199806SWarner Losh19981202: 288ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 289ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 29057199806SWarner Losh 29157199806SWarner Losh19981201: 292ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 293ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 294ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 295ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 296ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 297ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 298ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 299ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 30057199806SWarner Losh 30157199806SWarner Losh19981118: 30253dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 30353dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 30453dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 30557199806SWarner Losh 3061fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 3071fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 3081fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 3091fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 3101fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 311f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 312f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 313f8c77507SWarner Losh 3147eedd934SWarner Losh$Id: UPDATING,v 1.38 1999/07/07 04:28:48 imp Exp $ 315