Mention switch to ld.lld for amd64 in UPDATING

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Ed Maste 2018-01-10 20:49:01 +00:00
parent 737afa08a4
commit 92593573d5

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@ -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