Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:39:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Andrew Turner <andrew@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r331242 - head Message-ID: <201803201339.w2KDdfbe029566@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: andrew Date: Tue Mar 20 13:39:41 2018 New Revision: 331242 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331242 Log: 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 Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Tue Mar 20 13:35:20 2018 (r331241) +++ head/UPDATING Tue Mar 20 13:39:41 2018 (r331242) @@ -51,24 +51,6 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** -20180319: - 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 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf.
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