Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 12:43:04 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: Possible upgrade problem? Message-ID: <19990508124304.M76212@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <3733DCDA.6A72EC54@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:42:34PM %2B0900 References: <3733DCDA.6A72EC54@newsguy.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:42:34PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > After a recent report on a difference between 2.2.x and 3.1 GENERIC > kernel, I confirmed that the following change never went into > 2.2.x-stable. Furthermore, the upgrade target *does not* deal with > it. Further furthermore, nor does UPDATING mention it (it's newer > than the change). It seems kernels without this can boot, but are > unstable. Comments? Work-arounds? Is a comment in Errata in order? There shouldn't be a difference between kernels with and without this at this time. The change was introduced in 3.x in order to make it a smooth transition from 3.x to 4.x possible when I did the described changes in 4.x. It was not supposed to be activated in 3.x, as that would make an upgrade from 2.2.x to 3.x painful. I've since then learned more about the interactions in the kernel, and it looks like I can implement better ways of handling this, so I've not activated the change this was in preparation for in 4.x, either. > src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC: > > 1.105 Sat Jan 24 2:54:09 1998 UTC by eivind > Diffs to 1.104 > > Make all file-system (MFS, FFS, NFS, LFS, DEVFS) related option > new-style. > > This introduce an xxxFS_BOOT for each of the rootable filesystems. > (Presently not required, but encouraged to allow a smooth move of > option *FS to opt_dontuse.h later.) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990508124304.M76212>