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Alan Somers
47cc9ee1b1 Switch the default pager for most commands to less
Finally, a pager for the nineties.

MFC after:	Never
Relnotes:	Yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13465
Poll:		https://reviews.freebsd.org/V7
2018-08-08 19:24:20 +00:00
Ravi Pokala
b598845049 Remove jedec_ts(4)
The jedec_ts(4) driver has been marked as deprecated in stable/11, and is
now being removed from -HEAD. Add a notice in UPDATING, and update the few
remaining references (regarding jedec_dimm(4)'s compatibility and history)
to reflect the fact that jedec_ts(4) is now deleted.

Reviewed by:	avg
Relnotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16537
2018-08-01 08:24:34 +00:00
Kyle Evans
1ddc8a8e68 Follow up to r336919 and r336921: s/efi.rt_disabled/efi.rt.disabled/
The latter matches the rest of the tree better [0]. The UPDATING entry has
been updated to reflect this, and the new tunable is now documented in
loader(8) [1].

Reported by:	imp [0], Shawn Webb [1]
2018-07-30 18:13:20 +00:00
Kyle Evans
dfa6eec2b1 Correct typo from r336921; BIOS/legacy boot... 2018-07-30 17:59:18 +00:00
Kyle Evans
164138e7d8 amd64/GENERIC: Enable EFIRT by default
As noted in UDPATING, the new loader tunable efi.rt_disabled may be used to
disable EFIRT at runtime. It should have no effect if you are not booted via
UEFI boot.

MFC after:	6 weeks
2018-07-30 17:54:18 +00:00
Ed Maste
5f9d7aafd8 Correct typo and whitespace in UPDATING
PR:		230124
Submitted by:	Samy Mahmoudi
2018-07-30 00:04:42 +00:00
Emmanuel Vadot
c59a544e09 UPDATING: Add note about efifb support and serial output 2018-07-28 20:33:08 +00:00
Warner Losh
411e421961 Note ARM Atmel, Cavlium and XScale removal. 2018-07-27 21:40:05 +00:00
Warner Losh
07a522da1c Re-remove these empty directories 2018-07-27 21:36:29 +00:00
Warner Losh
663472df5a Say a little more about the new protocol.
Requested by: emaste@
2018-07-23 22:15:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
b43c6042c3 Finalize the boot manager protocol support for next-stage boot
loading.

If we are booting in a conforming UEFI Boot Manager Environment, then
use the BootCurrent variable to find the BootXXXX we're using. Once we
find that, then if it contains more than one EFI_DEVICE_PATH in its
what to boot section, try to use the last one as the kernel to
load. This will also set the default root partition as well. If
there's only one path, or if there's an error along the way, assume
that nothing specific was specified and revert to the old
algorithm. If something was specified, but not found, then fail the
boot. Otherwise you that, specific thing. On FreeBSD, this can be set
using efibootmgr -l <loader> -k <kernel>. We try a few variations of
kernel to cope with the fact that UEFI comes from a DOS world where
paths might be upper case and/or contain back-slashes.

Note: In an ideal world, we'd work out where we are in chain loading
by looking at the passed-in image handle and doing name
matching. However, that's unreliable since at least boot1.efi booted
images don't have that, hence the assumption that loader.efi needs to
load the last thing on the list, if possible.

The reason we fail for something specific is so that we can fully
participate in the UEFI Boot Manager Protocol and fail over to the
next item in the list of BootOrder choices when something goes wrong
at this stage.

This implements was was talked about in freebsd-arch@ last year
https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3576+0+archive/2017/freebsd-arch/20171022.freebsd-arch
and documented in full (after changed resulting from the discussion) in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aK9IqF-60JPEbUeSAUAkYjF2W_8EnmczFs6RqCT90Jg/edit#
although one or two minor details may have been modified in this
implementation to make it work, and the ZFS MEDIA PATH extension isn't
implemented. This does not yet move things to ESP:\efi\freebsd\loader.efi.

RelNotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16403
2018-07-23 20:36:59 +00:00
Ulrich Spörlein
2dc17d149e Remove duplicated entry 2018-07-23 08:52:57 +00:00
Warner Losh
3b74102205 Older zfs boot blocks don't support symlinks. install the link to
zfsloader as a hard link. While newer ones do, the whole point of the
link was to transition to the new world order smoothly. A hard link is
less flexible, but it works and will result in fewer bumps. Adjust
UPDATING entry to match.
2018-07-23 06:04:05 +00:00
Ian Lepore
d0e46652c1 Add a note about the new 'ntpd' userid, and the fact that rc.d/ntpd now
automatically runs the daemon as that user if it can.
2018-07-20 18:02:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
d397afa37d Mention zfsloader being folded into loader in UPDATING. 2018-07-20 05:26:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
dbe8ed38bf Note big endian arm removal. 2018-07-19 23:54:18 +00:00
Peter Jeremy
7bca8056ad Retrospectively document SVN branch point for stable-11
Approved by:	jhb (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16262
2018-07-17 11:35:40 +00:00
Kyle Evans
44314c3509 kern_environment: Give the static environment a chance to disable MD env
This variable has been given the name "loader_env.disabled" as it's the
primary way most people will have an MD environment. This restores the
previously-default behavior of ignoring the loader(8) environment, which may
be useful for vendor distributions or other scenarios where inheriting the
loader environment may be considered a security issue or potentially
breaking of a more locked-down environment.

As the change to config(5) indicates, disabling the loader environment
should not be a choice made lightly since it may provide ACPI hints and
other useful things that the system can rely on to boot.

An UPDATING entry has been added to mention an upgrade path for those that
may have relied on the previous behavior.

Discussed with:	bde
Relnotes:	yes (maybe)
2018-07-12 02:51:50 +00:00
Warner Losh
f06b6fdcb1 Mention the need to update devmatch.conf 2018-07-07 15:25:06 +00:00
Brooks Davis
f38b68ae8a Make struct xinpcb and friends word-size independent.
Replace size_t members with ksize_t (uint64_t) and pointer members
(never used as pointers in userspace, but instead as unique
idenitifiers) with kvaddr_t (uint64_t). This makes the structs
identical between 32-bit and 64-bit ABIs.

On 64-bit bit systems, the ABI is maintained. On 32-bit systems,
this is an ABI breaking change. The ABI of most of these structs
was previously broken in r315662.  This also imposes a small API
change on userspace consumers who must handle kernel pointers
becoming virtual addresses.

PR:		228301 (exp-run by antoine)
Reviewed by:	jtl, kib, rwatson (various versions)
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15386
2018-07-05 13:13:48 +00:00
Matt Macy
f4b3640475 inline atomics and allow tied modules to inline locks
- inline atomics in modules on i386 and amd64 (they were always
  inline on other arches)
- allow modules to opt in to inlining locks by specifying
  MODULE_TIED=1 in the makefile

Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16079
2018-07-02 19:48:38 +00:00
Mariusz Zaborski
0dea6e3c98 core(5): overwrite the oldest core dump
The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.

Reviewed by:	kib(code), bcr (updating)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15991
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16084
2018-07-01 17:28:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
2fd8cef47f Mention, belatedly, the need to run mergemaster. This somehow
wasn't committed with the other changes.
2018-07-01 01:45:41 +00:00
Dimitry Andric
55458465af More follow-up to r335799 (llvm/clang 6.0.1 update), where I forgot to
update mtree files, ObsoleteFiles and a number of other paths.  Sorry
about all the breakage.

Pointy hat to:	me
MFC after:	2 weeks
X-MFC-With:	r335799
2018-06-30 15:03:22 +00:00
Glen Barber
197b832fbc Use the 'Updating from Source' Handbook section in UPDATING.
PR:		229345 (related)
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2018-06-26 14:30:33 +00:00
Rick Macklem
fa986e33be Explain why a __FreeBSD_version bump was done for r334930. 2018-06-12 22:52:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
37d6a8f458 Revert size limits.
The size limits came from a flawed understanding of dump records.
The real issue was that dump was bogusly interpreting c_count
sometimes. r334978 fixes that.
2018-06-11 20:38:30 +00:00
Warner Losh
3bb3aaf6c1 Document the dump issue in UPDATING so people understand when they
get a new diagnostic.
2018-06-11 19:32:40 +00:00
Warner Losh
0bf7cdd502 Note the need for a new kernel / userland for devinfo to work
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15628
2018-05-31 02:58:08 +00:00
Warner Losh
212967ff26 We've removed the special case code for upgrading from FreeBSD 9 so
remove the special warning. It's in svn if we need it.
2018-05-30 05:00:30 +00:00
Ed Maste
0b979e7e8e UPDATING: remove EOL whitespace in 20180523 entry 2018-05-24 17:08:55 +00:00
Matt Macy
7e1a13f4b4 UPDATING: note that the pmc callchain ABI has changed 2018-05-23 17:30:23 +00:00
Sean Bruno
6f78fad3b1 Retire vxge(4).
This driver was merged to HEAD one week prior to Exar publicly announcing they
had left the Ethernet market. It is not known to be used and has various code
quality issues spotted by Brooks and Hiren. Retire it in preparation for
FreeBSD 12.0.

Submitted by:	kbowling
Reviewed by:	brooks imp
Relnotes:	yes
Sponsored by:	Limelight Networks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15442
2018-05-17 14:55:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
6e258ed363 2018 this time. 2018-05-16 21:07:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
eb8831b95c Add note about LD=ld.lld being a temporary requirement when building
the kernel the traditional way.
2018-05-16 13:52:24 +00:00
Sean Bruno
57b4936514 nxge(4):
Remove nxge(4) and associated man page and tools in FreeBSD 12.0.

Submitted by:	kbowling
Reviewed by:	brooks
Relnotes:	yes
Sponsored by:	Limelight Networks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1529
2018-05-08 21:14:29 +00:00
Philip Paeps
ba3833a8c4 Point out that the tzdata 2018e update brings in negative DST for certain time
zones.  This does not affect the vast majority of users who do not care about
(or even know about) the tm_isdst flag but may be slightly surprising to those
with a more specialised interest in time zone arcana.

MFC after:	3 days
2018-05-04 10:52:17 +00:00
Sean Bruno
2695c9c109 Retire ixgb(4)
This driver was for an early and uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single
ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family.

Submitted by:	kbowling
Reviewed by:	brooks imp jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com
Relnotes:	yes
Sponsored by:	Limelight Networks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15234
2018-05-02 15:59:15 +00:00
Ed Maste
e6a376d196 Retire lmc(4)
This driver supports legacy, 32-bit PCI devices, and had an ambiguous
license.  Supported devices were already reported to be rare in 2003
(when an earlier version of the driver was removed in r123201).

Reviewed by:	rgrimes
Relnotes:	Yes
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15245
2018-05-01 16:30:48 +00:00
Ed Maste
796c03e9e4 Retire UPDATING entries prior to the stable/10 branch
We do not support building from FreeBSD 9.x releases.

Approved by:	imp
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2018-04-27 20:20:57 +00:00
Brooks Davis
3a4fc8a8a1 Remove support for the Arcnet protocol.
While Arcnet has some continued deployment in industrial controls, the
lack of drivers for any of the PCI, USB, or PCIe NICs on the market
suggests such users aren't running FreeBSD.

Evidence in the PR database suggests that the cm(4) driver (our sole
Arcnet NIC) was broken in 5.0 and has not worked since.

PR:		182297
Reviewed by:	jhibbits, vangyzen
Relnotes:	yes
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15057
2018-04-13 21:18:04 +00:00
Brooks Davis
0437c8e3b1 Remove support for FDDI networks.
Defines in net/if_media.h remain in case code copied from ifconfig is in
use elsewere (supporting non-existant media type is harmless).

Reviewed by:	kib, jhb
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15017
2018-04-11 17:28:24 +00:00
Ed Schouten
8129693e78 Let syslog(3) use RFC 5424.
With r332099 changing syslogd(8) to parse RFC 5424 formatted syslog
messages, go ahead and also change the syslog(3) libc function to
generate them. Compared to RFC 3164, RFC 5424 has various advantages,
such as sub-second precision for log entry timestamps.

As this change could have adverse effects when not updating syslogd(8)
or using a different system logging daemon, add a notice to UPDATING and
increase __FreeBSD_version.

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14926
2018-04-06 13:00:45 +00:00
Brooks Davis
c53b0251ac It is March not May.
Reported by:	jkim
2018-03-29 17:44:55 +00:00
Brooks Davis
69f0fecbd6 Remove infrastructure for token-ring networks.
Reviewed by:	cem, imp, jhb, jmallett
Relnotes:	yes
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14875
2018-03-28 23:33:26 +00:00
John Baldwin
779f392b84 Expand remaining instances of 'make kernel' to buildkernel + installkernel.
The 'kernel' target is a bit more obscure compared to buildkernel and
installkernel.  One instance was already expanded previously in r325097.
2018-03-28 16:51:05 +00:00
Benno Rice
72bf324ced Add an entry dealing with the makefs ISO9660 EFI tagging changes.
If you're building -CURRENT releases and it fails when building ISO images on
amd64 you'll need to update makefs.

Reported by:	dch
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
2018-03-25 21:07:59 +00:00
Andrew Turner
f6d1be1789 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
2018-03-20 13:39:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
4e78443262 Note: this isn't a general thing. It only affects u-boot-based arm64
systems. Make sure the note says that specific case only. Also,
provide a recipe to do it.

Sponsored by: Netflix
2018-03-20 03:36:51 +00:00
Kyle Evans
d3cf0e0c00 Add note to UPDATING about UEFI changes requiring loader(8) update
These problems have only been observed with boards using U-Boot (e.g. ARM)
where virtual addresses are already set in the memory map by the firmware
and the firmware is expecting a call to SetVirtualAddressMap to be made.
I refrain from mentioning this in the note because this could also be the
case on some not-yet-tested firmware on amd64 and it's not a bad
recommendation for the general case.
2018-03-19 15:27:53 +00:00