From 2b8dd5f402fa0f944631ed34b833477b5414ab97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warner Losh Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:02:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] o Make note of brandelf change (obrien) o Make the ata warning less dire based on more experience. It seems that marginal disks cause more problems than that chipset singled out. (sos) --- UPDATING | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index f47ef2fa5943..65f1a27bbc14 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -5,17 +5,21 @@ directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON ITEMS:' +20000417: + The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more + acceptible to the binutils maintainers. You will need to + rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem + binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but + before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue: + brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig + if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine. + 20000320: - * * * W A R N I N G * * * - The ata driver has some issues with the Apollo MVP3 chipset. - Drives work only in pio mode and must be set to pio mode early - int the boot process. Do not upgrade. If you must upgrade - in the face of this, add + If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they + don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to + cope if you have a problem combination is to add: /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio - to the start of /etc/rc.conf. Even if you do this, any and - all damage to your system is at your own risk. You have been - warned. - * * * W A R N I N G * * * + to the start of /etc/rc.conf. 20000319: The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the