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UPDATING,v 1.163.4.2 2008/01/09 01:19:18 matt Exp

$NetBSD$

This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent

changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for

Line 16 See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile.

Recent changes:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

20080126:

The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly

stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to

'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to

avoid using the old assembly stub.

20071209:

The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you

get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel

configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.

20071115:

The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port

argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid

anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port

rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel

configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.

configuration file appropiately or see GENERIC for more details.

20071028:

The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.

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has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back

to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation

root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated

root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they

root filesytem will be relative to that filesystem - unless they

start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install

that has such links.

This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside