Re: svn commit: r344418 - stable/11
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:20 AM Rodney W. Grimes
wrote:
>
> > Author: kevans
> > Date: Thu Feb 21 03:48:39 2019
> > New Revision: 344418
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/344418
> >
> > Log:
> > Direct commit for post-mortem UPDATING update regarding lualoader
> >
> > Indicate that it's been merged (after some delay since lua came back to
> > this
> > branch) and how one can test lua, both by swapping build knobs and
> > creating
> > links in /boot.
> >
> > Modified:
> > stable/11/UPDATING
> >
> > Modified: stable/11/UPDATING
> > ==
> > --- stable/11/UPDATINGThu Feb 21 03:39:51 2019(r344417)
> > +++ stable/11/UPDATINGThu Feb 21 03:48:39 2019(r344418)
> > @@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option.
> > from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit
> > fragile.
> >
> > 20190220:
> > + Co-existance for Forth and Lua interpreters in bootloaders has now
> > been
> > + merged to ease testing of lualoader. LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP,
> > documented
> > + in build(7), may be used to control which interpreter flavor is used
> > in
> > + the default loader to be installed. For systems where Lua and Forth
> > + coexist, this switch can also be made on a running system by creating
> > a
> > + link from /boot/loader_${flavor}{,efi} to /boot/loader{,.efi} rather
> ^. missing
> And is not the direction of that link reversed?
> /boot/loader_${,.efi} -> /boot/loader_${flavor}{,.efi}
> is what I would expect the link to be for this.
>
Whoops. Will fix shortly, thanks!
Kyle Evans
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Re: svn commit: r344418 - stable/11
> Author: kevans
> Date: Thu Feb 21 03:48:39 2019
> New Revision: 344418
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/344418
>
> Log:
> Direct commit for post-mortem UPDATING update regarding lualoader
>
> Indicate that it's been merged (after some delay since lua came back to this
> branch) and how one can test lua, both by swapping build knobs and creating
> links in /boot.
>
> Modified:
> stable/11/UPDATING
>
> Modified: stable/11/UPDATING
> ==
> --- stable/11/UPDATINGThu Feb 21 03:39:51 2019(r344417)
> +++ stable/11/UPDATINGThu Feb 21 03:48:39 2019(r344418)
> @@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option.
> from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
>
> 20190220:
> + Co-existance for Forth and Lua interpreters in bootloaders has now been
> + merged to ease testing of lualoader. LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented
> + in build(7), may be used to control which interpreter flavor is used in
> + the default loader to be installed. For systems where Lua and Forth
> + coexist, this switch can also be made on a running system by creating a
> + link from /boot/loader_${flavor}{,efi} to /boot/loader{,.efi} rather
^. missing
And is not the direction of that link reversed?
/boot/loader_${,.efi} -> /boot/loader_${flavor}{,.efi}
is what I would expect the link to be for this.
> + than requiring a rebuild.
> +
> + The default flavor in this branch will remain Forth. As indicated in
> + the 20190216 UPDATING entry, booting is a complex environment; it would
> + be prudent to assume that lualoader may not work for your setup and make
> + provisions for backup boot methods.
> +
> +20190220:
> zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
> zfsloader is no longer necesasary once you've updated your
> boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
>
>
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Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org
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