Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v rcsdiff: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.170.6.1 retrieving revision 1.179 diff -u -p -r1.170.6.1 -r1.179 --- src/UPDATING 2008/06/23 04:26:44 1.170.6.1 +++ src/UPDATING 2008/11/25 14:27:43 1.179 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.170.6.1 2008/06/23 04:26:44 wrstuden Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.179 2008/11/25 14:27:43 tsutsui Exp $ 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 @@ -16,6 +16,47 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +20081122: + On i386 and amd64, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including + file-system have been disabled and moved into kernel modules. + Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare + following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel: + + - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules + + - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module + for a file system where the kernel is loaded from automatically + + If you have to load your kernel from file system which is not + the same type with the root file system, you have to load a necessary + file system module manually on the boot prompt or in boot.cfg file. + +20080827: + If you built and installed a libc from sources between + 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3) + which results in false errors reported by lint(1). + Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is + needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g: + $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install) + +20080813: + MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know + about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild. + +20080731: + WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this + time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels + and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you + don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland, + especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL + also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You + can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format. + +20080721: + Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR + isn't defined. + 20080531: The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8) @@ -39,6 +80,9 @@ Recent changes: If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file, remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/, and re-run the build. +20080303: + Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0. + 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