Author: imp
Date: Tue Mar 20 03:36:51 2018
New Revision: 331236
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331236
Log:
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
Modified:
head/UPDATING
Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING Tue Mar 20 02:54:32 2018 (r331235)
+++ head/UPDATING Tue Mar 20 03:36:51 2018 (r331236)
@@ -52,11 +52,22 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
20180319:
- For UEFI systems: the UEFI loader(8), loader.efi, should be updated in
- conjunction with installing a new kernel after r330868. The kernel,
- after this revision, will be more lenient when mapping addresses for
- UEFI Runtime Services and this may result in a kernel panic without the
- corresponding loader(8) update.
+ For u-boot based arm64 UEFI systems: the UEFI loader(8), loader.efi,
+ should be updated in conjunction with installing a new kernel after
+ r330868. The kernel, after this revision, will be more lenient when
+ mapping addresses for UEFI Runtime Services and this may result in a
+ kernel panic without the corresponding loader(8) update. If you have a
+ recent kernel, you can do a installkernel / installworld and then reboot
+ as there's no recent syscall changes. If you have an older kernel and/or
+ a 11.x system, the following sequence is safe:
+ % make buildworld
+ % make buildkernel
+ % sudo make installkernel
+ % cd stand
+ % sudo make install
+ % sudo reboot
+ ...
+ % sudo make installworld
20180212:
FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for
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