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| author | Sean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-05-17 14:55:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Sean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-05-17 14:55:41 +0000 |
| commit | 6f78fad3b102965147e6e15a8422bd157b699993 (patch) | |
| tree | 7886c75999f854a69d559437e1f8719f87fc4922 /UPDATING | |
| parent | 0c5ce04d824cc6e8b0174d0a48c79841eb779efa (diff) | |
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Retire vxge(4).
This driver was merged to HEAD one week prior to Exar publicly announcing they
had left the Ethernet market. It is not known to be used and has various code
quality issues spotted by Brooks and Hiren. Retire it in preparation for
FreeBSD 12.0.
Submitted by: kbowling
Reviewed by: brooks imp
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15442
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=333717
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index e8234d0093594..9cad594fac133 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** +20180517: + The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into + HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not + known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file + it must be removed. + 20180510: The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default |