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UPDATING: Add note about efifb support and serial output

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Emmanuel Vadot 2018-07-28 20:33:08 +00:00
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@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
20180719:
ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console
on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader
setup a frambuffer for us to use, just add :
boot_serial=YES
boot_multicons=YES
in /boot/loader.conf
For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have
an screen connected as the firmware will setup a framebuffer are that
u-boot will expose as an EFI framebuffer.
20180719:
New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster
or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on