From 92593573d5c654570de38609434de74c906640b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ed Maste Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:49:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention switch to ld.lld for amd64 in UPDATING Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- UPDATING | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index ad30ed2b3506..c65431ce29f1 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** +20180110: + LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. + This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and + executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. + + To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set + WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes + 20180110: On i386, pmtimer has been removed. It's functionality has been folded into apm. It was a nop on ACPI in current for a while now (but was still