From f6d1be178981716122e4ad4cea13a696b819ccc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Turner Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:39:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove the entry about loader.efi needing to be updated before the kernel. The kernel now handles the situation it's warning against as of r331241. Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL --- UPDATING | 18 ------------------ 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 6f3eb8a4a214..56da3c70a638 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -51,24 +51,6 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** -20180319: - For u-boot based arm64 UEFI systems: the UEFI loader(8), loader.efi, - should be updated in conjunction with installing a new kernel after - r330868. The kernel, after this revision, will be more lenient when - mapping addresses for UEFI Runtime Services and this may result in a - kernel panic without the corresponding loader(8) update. If you have a - recent kernel, you can do a installkernel / installworld and then reboot - as there's no recent syscall changes. If you have an older kernel and/or - a 11.x system, the following sequence is safe: - % make buildworld - % make buildkernel - % sudo make installkernel - % cd stand - % sudo make install - % sudo reboot - ... - % sudo make installworld - 20180212: FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf.