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 6ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 7ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 8ed478e7cSWarner Losh 9075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 10075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 11075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 12075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 136ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 146ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 15075eeff2SWarner Losh 16a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 17a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 18a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 19a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 20a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 21a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 22a883e9d3SWarner Losh 23a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 24a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 25a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 26a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 27a883e9d3SWarner Losh 2807b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 2907b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 3007b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 3107b72539SWarner Losh 3207b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 3307b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 3407b72539SWarner Losh 3509fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 3609fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 3709fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 3809fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 3909fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 4009fcf3f9SWarner Losh 4109fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 4209fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 4309fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 4409fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 4509fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 4609fcf3f9SWarner Losh 47ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 48ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 49ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 50ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 51ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 52ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 53ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 54ea31d04dSWarner Losh 55ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 56ea31d04dSWarner Losh 57ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 58ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 59ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 60ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 61ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 62ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 63ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 64ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 65ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 66ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 67ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 68ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 69ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 70ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 71ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 72ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 73ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 74ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 75ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 76ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 77ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 78ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 79f8c77507SWarner Losh 80d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 81d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 82d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 83d24adca8SWarner Losh 84d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 85d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 86d24adca8SWarner Losh 87ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 88ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 89ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 90ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 91ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 92ea31d04dSWarner Losh 93d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 94d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 95d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 96d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 97d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 98d24adca8SWarner Losh 99d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 100d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 101ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 102d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 103ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 104d5ca0636SWarner Losh 1051f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 1061f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 1071f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 1081f692d40SWarner Losh 1091f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 11081725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 11181725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 11281725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 11381725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 11481725689SWarner Losh 11581725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 11681725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 11781725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 11881725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 11981725689SWarner Losh undefined. 12081725689SWarner Losh 12181725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 12281725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 123420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 12481725689SWarner Losh make clean 12581725689SWarner Losh make all 12681725689SWarner Losh make install 12781725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 12881725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 12981725689SWarner Losh 13081725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 13181725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 13281725689SWarner Losh 133ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 134ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 135ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 136ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 137ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 138fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 139fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 140fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 141fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 142fe9af953SWarner Losh 143fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 144fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 145fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 146fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 147fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 148fe9af953SWarner Losh 149ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 150fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 151fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 152ce32355fSWarner Losh 153f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 154f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 155f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 1561fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 1570edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 1580edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 1597dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 1607dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 1610edeb9e7SWarner Losh 1621fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 1631fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 1640edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 16557199806SWarner Losh 1667dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 1677dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 1687dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 1697dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 1707dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 1717dd38e55SWarner Losh 1729a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 1739a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 1749a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 1759a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 1769a3105eeSWarner Losh 1779a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 1789a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 1799a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 1809a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 1819a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 1829a3105eeSWarner Losh 1839a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 1848cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 1858cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 1863652181cSWarner Losh 1878cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 1883652181cSWarner Losh 1898cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 1908cd37f69SWarner Losh 1918cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 1928cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 1933652181cSWarner Losh 1948cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 1958cd37f69SWarner Losh or 1968cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 1973652181cSWarner Losh 1988cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 1998cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 2008cd37f69SWarner Losh 2018cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 2028cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 2038cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 2048cd37f69SWarner Losh 205ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 206ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 207ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 208ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 209ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 210ad56ea87SWarner Losh 21157199806SWarner Losh19990111: 212a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 213a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 214a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 215a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 216a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 21757199806SWarner Losh 2187dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 21957199806SWarner Losh 220a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 22157199806SWarner Losh 22257199806SWarner Losh19990106: 2239857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 224db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 22557199806SWarner Losh 2267dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 22757199806SWarner Losh 2289ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 2299ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 2309ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 2319857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 2329857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 2339857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 2349857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 23557199806SWarner Losh 23657199806SWarner Losh19990104: 2372c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 23857199806SWarner Losh 2397dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 24057199806SWarner Losh 2412c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 2422c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 24357199806SWarner Losh 24457199806SWarner Losh19981230: 245d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 246e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 247e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 248e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 249e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 250e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 251e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 25257199806SWarner Losh 25357199806SWarner Losh19981224: 254355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 255355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 256355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 25757199806SWarner Losh 258355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 259355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 26057199806SWarner Losh 261355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 262355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 26357199806SWarner Losh 26457199806SWarner Losh19981202: 265ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 266ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 26757199806SWarner Losh 26857199806SWarner Losh19981201: 269ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 270ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 271ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 272ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 273ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 274ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 275ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 276ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 27757199806SWarner Losh 27857199806SWarner Losh19981118: 27953dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 28053dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 28153dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 28257199806SWarner Losh 2831fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 2841fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 2851fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 2861fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 2871fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 288f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 289f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 290f8c77507SWarner Losh 291ed478e7cSWarner Losh$Id: UPDATING,v 1.35 1999/06/23 06:39:07 imp Exp $ 292