Just a short *WARNING*: do *NOT* activate the loading of any sound modules in loader.conf: it'll cause a panic, probably due to a bug in the kernel linker.
Cheers, Alex Hornung 2009/8/4 Matthew Dillon <[email protected]>: > Alex's GSOC project, DEVFS is now on master and active. Some care must > be taken when upgrading. > > * A full buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld sequence > is needed. No changes to fstab are needed, /dev will be mounted > from devfs automatically by the kernel. > > * If you run a new kernel with an old world (without devfs) you will > not be able to login as root, but you will still be able to login > as a user and su, and you should still be able to boot single-user. > > In otherwords, things will be messed up but in a fixable way, until > both the world and the kernel are in sync. > > * A great deal of testing of basic functions has been done, but > there is still a very good chance of breakage. Please test and > report any issues. Very few GUI components have been tested, > so if X or sound stops working it may be a day or two before we > can get it whacked back into shape. > > * The master branch may be unstable for a week as wider testing is > done. > > * PEOPLE RUNNING CHROOTS: Character and block devices in the filesystem > NO LONGER WORK. If you have chrooted or jailed areas with their own > /dev, you have to use mount_devfs in those areas. > > Many features are now working. We have auto-cloning support for > numerous devices but only a few userland utilities have been adjusted > to use it. To reduce issues DEVFS will pre-create a bunch of units for > numerous devices so the non-cloning userland utilities still work. > > In addition, fully automatic slice and partition probing and reprobing > is now operational. When you fdisk a drive the slices will pop up > in /dev, and when you disklabel a slice the partitinos will pop up > as well. MBR and disklabel edits will properly and automatically > reprobe the drive. IMHO this is a very, very cool feature. > > The nrelease build still has a few issues. It will work and the intaller > will come up, but the installer may have trouble seeing newly created > partitions (a 'retry' usually solves the problem). This is a known > issue and will be fixed. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[email protected]> >
