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Mention that i386 and amd64 GENERIC kernels now require

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installed kernel modules and the latest bootloader.
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$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.178 2008/09/02 07:34:15 lukem Exp $
$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.179 2008/11/25 14:27:43 tsutsui Exp $
This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent
changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
20081122:
On i386 and amd64, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
file-system have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare
following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
- build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
- install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
for a file system where the kernel is loaded from automatically
If you have to load your kernel from file system which is not
the same type with the root file system, you have to load a necessary
file system module manually on the boot prompt or in boot.cfg file.
20080827:
If you built and installed a libc from sources between
2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)