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 8*8d9f1945SWarner Losh20000320: 9*8d9f1945SWarner Losh * * * W A R N I N G * * * 10*8d9f1945SWarner Losh The ata driver has some issues with the Apollo MVP3 chipset. 11*8d9f1945SWarner Losh Drives work only in pio mode and must be set to pio mode early 12*8d9f1945SWarner Losh int the boot process. Do not upgrade. If you must upgrade 13*8d9f1945SWarner Losh in the face of this, add 14*8d9f1945SWarner Losh /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio 15*8d9f1945SWarner Losh to the start of /etc/rc.conf. Even if you do this, any and 16*8d9f1945SWarner Losh all damage to your system is at your own risk. You have been 17*8d9f1945SWarner Losh warned. 18*8d9f1945SWarner Losh * * * W A R N I N G * * * 19*8d9f1945SWarner Losh 20f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh20000319: 21f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the 22f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old 23f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must 24f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers 25f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with 26f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh 5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001. 27f8ab1dd6SWarner Losh 2819cada77SWarner Losh20000318: 2919cada77SWarner Losh We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party. 3019cada77SWarner Losh Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the 3119cada77SWarner Losh works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel 3219cada77SWarner Losh in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing. 3319cada77SWarner Losh Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules 3419cada77SWarner Losh that you are loading are up to date. 35ba228352SWarner Losh 3619cada77SWarner Losh20000315: 376d23c382SWarner Losh If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you 386d23c382SWarner Losh need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0' 396d23c382SWarner Losh will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your 406d23c382SWarner Losh wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not 416d23c382SWarner Losh boot. 426d23c382SWarner Losh 436d23c382SWarner Losh20000315: 4419cada77SWarner Losh 4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how 4519cada77SWarner Losh to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x. 4657199806SWarner Losh 47dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS: 48dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh 49dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh To build a kernel 50dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh ----------------- 51dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh Update config, genassym and go: 52dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 53dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 54dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh make depend && make 553645fc1cSWarner Losh make install 56dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh 5716de1a07SWarner Losh To rebuild everything 5816de1a07SWarner Losh --------------------- 59759f0aefSWarner Losh make world 60759f0aefSWarner Losh 61dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT: 62dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh 631fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 641fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 65f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshand it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in 66f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshprevious releases if your system is older than this. 671fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 683645fc1cSWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so 693645fc1cSWarner Loshthat the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 70f8c77507SWarner Losh 7197d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 72