Add entry for newbus. It is rather long, but lots of nits can shoot

people with this upgrade.  Lemme know what you think, or any
corrections that should be made to it.

Corrected a few typos based on submissions from various people.

Add note that make aout-to-elf is currently broken and what to do to
work around it.  This is implied by make -DWANT_AOUT being broken, but
that isn't obvious to many people.
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Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
to him. See end of file for further details.
directly to him. See end of file for further details.
19990416:
new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were
initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a
new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that
GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when
upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the
breakage to current@freebsd.org).
As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are
o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected,
but the new pccard code needs to be completed.
o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems
inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke.
o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously
they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common
duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people
that wired their scsi disk entries.
o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the
isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details.
o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not
probe the second pci bus.
o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change
with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double
check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true
for cards on different buses.
o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when
it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this.
o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not
guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this
in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well
as scripts that parse dmesg output.
19990414:
cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g
@ -10,6 +43,12 @@ to him. See end of file for further details.
cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries,
so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time.
Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do
make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around
this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a
pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you
the rest of the way with a -current source base.
19990413:
Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with
care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting
@ -18,9 +57,9 @@ to him. See end of file for further details.
19990413:
Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to
egcs, not supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like
egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like
XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or
things (including netscape) will not work.
progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work.
19990409:
NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from
@ -208,4 +247,4 @@ version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.
Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that
the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
$Id: UPDATING,v 1.28 1999/04/13 06:10:53 imp Exp $
$Id: UPDATING,v 1.29 1999/04/15 04:36:45 imp Exp $