Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 20:33:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r336844 - head Message-ID: <201807282033.w6SKX8Nr037766@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: manu Date: Sat Jul 28 20:33:08 2018 New Revision: 336844 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336844 Log: UPDATING: Add note about efifb support and serial output Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Sat Jul 28 20:31:03 2018 (r336843) +++ head/UPDATING Sat Jul 28 20:33:08 2018 (r336844) @@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 20180719: + ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console + on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader + setup a frambuffer for us to use, just add : + boot_serial=YES + boot_multicons=YES + in /boot/loader.conf + For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have + an screen connected as the firmware will setup a framebuffer are that + u-boot will expose as an EFI framebuffer. + +20180719: New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on existing systems. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd
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