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Author SHA1 Message Date
gjb
5f085a7e8f 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
rmacklem
f6a3fac20c Explain why a __FreeBSD_version bump was done for r334930. 2018-06-12 22:52:27 +00:00
imp
290ff202b2 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
imp
0f8f20ac15 Document the dump issue in UPDATING so people understand when they
get a new diagnostic.
2018-06-11 19:32:40 +00:00
imp
8ea8b20920 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
imp
cb57471b80 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
emaste
76a215ba73 UPDATING: remove EOL whitespace in 20180523 entry 2018-05-24 17:08:55 +00:00
mmacy
2ad29cce86 UPDATING: note that the pmc callchain ABI has changed 2018-05-23 17:30:23 +00:00
sbruno
ff192f8aa2 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
imp
8fdd8a3f7d 2018 this time. 2018-05-16 21:07:12 +00:00
imp
c8a1a7b4ff 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
sbruno
9e75a9c23d 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
ec792471b7 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
sbruno
3bb0eb8b79 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
emaste
a3eb1e9afb 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
emaste
b6c896182c 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
26c165ead9 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
6dcf9514b3 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
591ef7c807 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
754d2605a6 It is March not May.
Reported by:	jkim
2018-03-29 17:44:55 +00:00
brooks
a45d44647f 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
jhb
4f60bcf1fc 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
72e038b027 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
11ab5efdb9 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
imp
230fec746a 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
kevans
dfdfdc183e 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
imp
974e9d9ccc Add Lua as a scripting langauge to /boot/loader
liblua glues the lua run time into the boot loader. It implements all
the runtime routines that lua expects. In addition, it has a few
standard 'C' headers that nueter various aspects of the LUA build that
are too specific to lua to be in libsa. Many refinements from the
original code to improve implementation and the number of included lua
libraries. Use int64_t for lua_Number. Have "/boot/lua" be the default
module path. Numerous cleanups from the original GSoC project,
including hacking libsa to allow lua to be built with only one change
outside luaconf.h.

Add the final bit of lua glue to bring in liblua and plug into the
multiple interpreter framework, previously committed.

Add LOADER_LUA option, currently off by default.

Presently, this is an experimental option. One must opt-in to using
this by defining WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH. It's been
lightly tested, so keep a backup copy of your old loader handy.
The menu code, coming in the next commit, hasn't been exhaustively
tested. A LUA boot loader is 60k larger than a FORTH one, which is
80k larger than a no-interpreter one. Subtle changes in size
may tip things past some subtle limit (the binary is ~430k now
when built with LUA). A future version may offer coexistance.

Bump FreeBSD version to 1200058 to mark the milestone.

Pedro Souza's 2014 Summer of Code project. Rui Paulo, Pedro Arthur,
Zakary Nafziger and Wojciech A. Koszek also contributed. Warner Losh
reworked it extensively into its current form.

Obtained from: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code
Relnotes: Yes
MFC After: 1 month
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14295
2018-02-12 15:31:53 +00:00
imp
c0ed339548 Add usb.conf to ObsoleteFiles.
Add a note to UPDATING.
Fix a missing tab.

Relnotes: Yes
2018-02-12 06:42:38 +00:00
dim
7dcc49151a Upgrade our copies of clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ to
6.0.0 (branches/release_60 r321788).  Upstream has branched for the
6.0.0 release, which should be in about 6 weeks.  Please report bugs and
regressions, so we can get them into the release.

Please note that from 3.5.0 onwards, clang, llvm and lldb require C++11
support to build; see UPDATING for more information.

MFC after:	3 months
2018-01-14 00:08:34 +00:00
schweikh
31677458a7 Correct a couple of typos. 2018-01-12 17:33:20 +00:00
emaste
38cb658f9e Mention switch to ld.lld for amd64 in UPDATING
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2018-01-10 20:49:01 +00:00
imp
6d4bb5fab7 inittodr(0) actually sets the time, so there's no need to call
tc_setclock(). It's redundant. Tweak UPDATING based on code review of
past releases.

Relnotes: yes (for the removal of pmtimer)
2018-01-10 17:25:08 +00:00
imp
39e6986c73 Docuent pmtimer driver removal. 2018-01-10 16:52:00 +00:00
smh
a74104797b Disabled the use of flowid for lagg by default
Disabled the use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid for
lagg(4) interfaces by default as it's currently incompatible with
the lacp and loadbalance protocols.

The incompatibility is due to the fact that the flowid isn't know
for the first packet of a new outbound stream which can result in
the hash calculation method changing and hence a stream being
incorrectly split across multiple interfaces during normal
operation.

This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"

Discussed with: kmacy
Sponsored by:	Multiplay
2018-01-04 20:05:47 +00:00
karels
dcba6e6bd0 Add info about SW_WATCHDOG change to be dynamic in the common case. 2018-01-03 06:41:39 +00:00
eadler
a2cad14ef1 other: Fix several typos and minor errors
- duplicate words
- typos
- references to old versions of FreeBSD

Reviewed by:	imp, benno
2017-12-27 03:23:58 +00:00
schweikh
0a07a3cb76 Correct a typo; remove white space at EOL. 2017-12-16 11:49:30 +00:00
imp
c8a7cf7b6a Note GELI-enabled zfsboot issues have been solved. Flip the switch
back to enabling GELI in boot and loader builds.

Sponsored by: Netflix
2017-12-15 23:19:49 +00:00
imp
c923d73c72 Turn loader GELI support in the boot loaders off by default as a
temporary workaround. This fixes zfs booting generally, but breaks all
GELI booting by default. Add note to UPDATING to this effect. When the
GELI issues are resolved, this will be reverted.
2017-12-14 17:00:24 +00:00
delphij
d11134208e Fill in date. 2017-11-26 04:55:23 +00:00
nwhitehorn
095d277cd8 Use the cookie now set by loader to determine whether the value passed to
PowerPC kernels in r6 is actually metadata from loader(8) or gibberish
left in r6, which is not required to be anything under the
PAPR/ePAPR/CHRP/OF standards, by another boot loader.

Note that, as a result, systems need a new boot loader to boot PPC kernels
after this revision without ending up at a mountroot prompt. New boot
loaders are backwards compatible and can boot older kernels.

Reviewed by:	jhibbits
MFC after:	2 months
2017-11-26 03:53:20 +00:00
gordon
98527635e0 Correct grammar nit. 2017-11-17 15:46:19 +00:00
imp
163d88e9d8 Move LOADER_{NO,}_GELI_SUPPORT to MK_LOADER_GELI
Transition to WITH/WITHOUT_LOADER_GELI to flag support or not of GELI
in the boot loaders. Add HAVE_GELI so components can flag they need
support (since it's too large to include everywhere). Add temporary
warnings for the old forms to ease transition.

Also, update test script to build without GELI on x86.

Sponsored by: Netflix
2017-11-10 23:54:48 +00:00
imp
e5dc9a3196 Replace LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT variable
Rename LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT to MK_LOADER_FIREWIRE. Only build
libfirewire when this is "yes". Add note to updating. Fix build script
to build this for x86 so the option doesn't decay. sparc64 supports
ZFS, so also build it MK_ZFS=no.

Sponsored by: Netflix
2017-11-10 23:54:41 +00:00
avg
71078f0a85 Add an UPDATING entry for the posix_fallocate/ZFS change, r325320 2017-11-06 15:29:33 +00:00
bdrewery
70c391eee8 Enable AUTO_OBJ by default if the OBJDIR is writable, only for in-tree builds.
This can be disabled by putting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, not
/etc/src.conf, or passing it in the environment.

The purpose of this rather than simply flipping the default of AUTO_OBJ to yes
is to avoid hassling users with auto.obj.mk failures if the wanted OBJDIR is
not writable. It will fallback to writing to the source directory like it does
today if MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is not writable.

The act of enabling MK_AUTO_OBJ disables all 'make obj' treewalks since
previous work has made those not run if MK_AUTO_OBJ==yes in Makefile.inc1.

Relnotes:	yes
Reviewed by:	sjg
Discussed at:	https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2016-May/017805.html
Sponsored by:	Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12841
2017-11-02 18:09:07 +00:00
bdrewery
8800d532d3 Add option UNIFIED_OBJDIR, on by default, which moves the default build OBJDIR.
This changes the build OBJDIR from the older style of /usr/obj/<srcdir> for
native builds, and /usr/obj/<target>.<target_arch>/<srcdir> for cross builds to
a new simpler format of /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<target>.<target_arch>.  This
new format is used regardless of cross or native build.  It allows
easier management of multiple source tree object directories.

The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option will be removed and its feature made permanent
for the 12.0 release.

Relnotes:	yes (don't note UNIFIED_OBJDIR option since it will be removed)
Prior work:	D3711 D874
Reviewed by:	gjb, sjg
Discussed at:	https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2016-May/017805.html
Discussed with:	emaste
Sponsored by:	Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12840
2017-11-01 21:22:05 +00:00
eadler
5fe4de56da Revert removal of 9.x references in UPDATING
Requested by: imp
2017-10-29 21:25:58 +00:00
eadler
ca08165f6d Update the updating URL in UPDATING
Also remove references to 9.x
2017-10-29 20:40:56 +00:00
eadler
b59ef3ed9e Update UPDATING
- Remove FreeBSD 4.x of building the kernel.
While it might technically work, it is better to
document the 'correct' way than how to shoot oneself
in the foot

- Remove reference to CVS -P for src.
2017-10-29 08:25:31 +00:00