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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:47:16 GMT
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 94e94d2dddfa - main - UPDATING: Add a notes for iwm(4) firmware and pkgbase users
Message-ID:  <202412160947.4BG9lG3Z092493@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by manu:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=94e94d2dddfa43aa0aa3ad8aa3ab6d72363e4bd0

commit 94e94d2dddfa43aa0aa3ad8aa3ab6d72363e4bd0
Author:     Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-12-16 09:46:05 +0000
Commit:     Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-12-16 09:46:05 +0000

    UPDATING: Add a notes for iwm(4) firmware and pkgbase users
    
    Sponsored by:   Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
---
 UPDATING | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 2a67a65a92ed..4fef13073431 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20241216:
+	The iwm(4) firmwares are no longer compiled as kernel modules but instead
+	shipped as raw files. For pkgbase users if you use iwm(4) you will need
+	to install the FreeBSD-firmware-iwm package.
+
 20241124:
 	The OpenBSD derived bc and dc implementations and the WITHOUT_GH_BC
 	option that allowed building them instead of the advanced version



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