o soren updated the ata driver. Please use 1213 or newer if
you have problems with the old stuff.
o Enshrine the night of bared axes against wd. Strongly push
users to move to ata driver.
o Alpha users need to recompile klds after 11/29.
o Mention the sound driver bridge code commit of 11/22.
o change examples in 1205 entry from wd to ad.
o Talk about new dc driver replacing all of the drivers that
Bill Paul has ever written.[*]
Corrections to these entries welcome.
[*] Well, at least those based on tulip clones...
didn't document the couple day window when the units were in terms of
ticks rather than ms.
Also add note about libreadline major version retrograde motion.
people with this upgrade. Lemme know what you think, or any
corrections that should be made to it.
Corrected a few typos based on submissions from various people.
Add note that make aout-to-elf is currently broken and what to do to
work around it. This is implied by make -DWANT_AOUT being broken, but
that isn't obvious to many people.
problems discussed in -current up through approx april 7th. Those
more in the know please read these changes and send me corrections.
I've only hit a few of the cases, not all of them, so my reporting is
second hand at best.
man page, but I take what I can get)
Submitted by: chuckr
Add warning that vn can't be a loadable module for a while
Submitted by: dillon
Add name change for old atapi cd driver
Submitted by: sos
Add better text for the ppbus changes
Add note about libdevstat changing forcing a recompile of some
things in the tree as well as ports that use devstat.
Thanks to those people that used HEADS UP in their message. Large,
rabid mammals to those that wanted to beat the /etc/rc* horse with the
phrase "heads up" in the subject line.
Submitted by: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG>
P.S. Forgive the delay on committing this. I've been out of town at
a funeral until just a few minutes ago.
3.something. We were getting a lot of URL links in this file and it
seemed like a good idea to convert this file to html so people can
follow them easily.
This does not use the doc tools to generate. I'm doing it all by hand
at the moment.
Update /etc/rc* if you are going to run a system with aout
libraries, otherwise ldconfig won't know what to do and all dynamic
aout binaries will fail.
note of this in the updating file. Put it under the 19981224 date
rather than today's date, since that was when the change was.
Submitted by: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Also added note about floppy tape driver. Didn't add note about
voxware or pcvt as they have been restored to the kernel.
day when the elves sail accross the sea to a new home, which happens
to be in your computer. They will sing glorious songs for the Eldar
days. You machine will shun the darkness that is upon the world.
Errrm, well actually you won't even notice...
Submitted by: peter
Appologies to: tokien
kernel forced migration happening soon.
While still incomplete, and there may be showstoppers along the way,
the advise given here is not incorrect.
Submitted indirectly by: jdk, peter wemm
update their systems from prior versions of FreeBSD. It is only for
November 18, 1998 and newer systems. If you have an older system, you
are on your own.
I'll update this from time to time, and if it shows signs of bitrot
I'll kill it.
