The port for acpitools may not work; if you want to take advantage of the new ACPI support, Hiten Pandya pointed at http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/
1.0RC1 Announcement + ACPI
Matt Dillon posted an announcement about 1.0RC1 last night on the kernel mailing list; it contins some important notes about ACPI.
1.0RC1 is released!
Mirror list:
http://home.hackerheaven.org/~coolvibe/mirrors
Devon O’Dell San Jose California, 100Mbit
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Torrent:
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org/files/dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz.torrent
LiveCD at 0.3
The DragonFlyBSD LiveCD is at version 0.3. It was 1.2 previously, so I assume the major number was dropped to emphasize that it’s not released yet. What’s new? I don’t know, as I haven’t been in #dfinstaller (on EFNet) this weekend.
Libtool is … finicky
‘walt’ found out that if you switch from GCC 2 to GCC 3 (and probably vice versa), libtool needs to be rebuilt.
ACPI in
Mat Dillon has committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s extensive ACPI changes.
High-speed twiddle
Matt Dillon has enabled the SIO FIFO (1655x) (don’t ask me what that is…) to reduce latency when that little spinning / | \ – bar thing runs during inital boot.
I note this just so I can say: “DragonFly – we even twiddle fast.”
Pruning and creating
If you’re building world and you see errors on named, do these steps as described by Matt Dillon:
Run cvsup
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin
rm -rf named
cvs update named
Matt describes in a separate post how the -Pd options to cvs updates can prune and create directories as needed.
Rebuildworld
As Erik P. Skaalerud pointed out in the bugs list, there’s been a lot of source changes lately. If you encounter an error when doing a buildworld/buildkernel, update your sources and try again. A number of people have managed to fall right inbetween updates lately.
Debug directory
Hiten Pandya and Matt Dillon have put together a debug script area for the kernel. Pasted here is Hiten’s commit message.
Continue reading “Debug directory”
Handbook (re)started
I’ve committed the initial “port” of the FreeBSD Handbook into the doc repository. It’s not yet built into the site, but you can see a test version at http://forknibbler.com/guide/. Anyone who wants to add/rewrite a section is strongly encouraged – send it to the submit ‘at’ dragonflybsd.org mailing list.
Flee, GCC 3.3
David Rhodus has removed GCC 3.3 from the tree, since GCC 3.4 is in. ‘make upgrade‘ during upgrade will clean it out.
20040625 ISO
The ISO on the DragonFly download page has been updated. This version has an an updated ATA driver, and some other patches that are not yet part of the normal codebase, in an effort to help out some folks that have been reporting installation difficulty.
Installer ISO 1.2a
Beta 1.2a, released as of Fri Jun 23 13:30:40 GMT 2004.
Powered by teeny little buttons
Andre Nathan made some nice “Powered By DragonFly” buttons.
PFIL_HOOKS unhooked
PFIL_HOOKS is now on by default, so it can be removed from kernel configuration files. It’s not in by default normally, so if it’s unfamiliar, ignore it.
New ISO
The Download page has a new ‘known stable’ ISO image. The Threads page has been updated too.
Dual-console default
Matt Dillon committed code that makes DragonFly computers boot in dual mode – i.e. both the serial console and the video console are active. Use -h at boot to get just serial, and -V to get just video.
Sing of good things, not bad
Someone wrote a DragonFly BSD song. Don’t worry, it’s just the lyrics, not a crazy sound file. More usefully, that site has some notes on installation and using LDAP.
Yet more Installer
The DragonFly Installer page now has a spiffy text scroller which mentions, among other things, the Installer Wiki and Installer Scripts.