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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)
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Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
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This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
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directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly
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done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON
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ITEMS:'
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20000417:
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The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more
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acceptible to the binutils maintainers. You will need to
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rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem
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binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but
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before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue:
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brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
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if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine.
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20000320:
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If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
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don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to
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cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
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/sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
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to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
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20000319:
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The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the
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options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old
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style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must
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include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers
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using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with
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5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001.
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20000318:
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We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party.
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Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the
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works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel
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in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing.
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Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules
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that you are loading are up to date.
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20000315:
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If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you
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need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0'
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will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your
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wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not
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boot.
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20000315:
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4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
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to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.
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COMMON ITEMS:
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To build a kernel
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-----------------
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Update config, genassym and go:
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config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
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cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
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make depend && make
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make install
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To rebuild everything
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---------------------
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make world
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FORMAT:
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This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
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breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here,
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and it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in
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previous releases if your system is older than this.
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Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so
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that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
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$FreeBSD$
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