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authorEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2018-01-10 20:49:01 +0000
committerEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2018-01-10 20:49:01 +0000
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Mention switch to ld.lld for amd64 in UPDATING
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=327787
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@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
20180110:
+ LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker.
+ This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and
+ executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default.
+
+ To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set
+ WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes
+
+20180110:
On i386, pmtimer has been removed. It's functionality has been folded
into apm. It was a nop on ACPI in current for a while now (but was still
needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to remove it