Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:36:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r331236 - head Message-ID: <201803200336.w2K3ap6k028353@repo.freebsd.org>
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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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