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document that a recent linker is needed to link the i386 and xen kernels

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after the changes to the ldscript.
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$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.145 2006/01/31 22:54:22 martin Exp $
$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.146 2006/06/02 19:01:00 pavel 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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Recent changes:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
20060526:
the kernel links script for i386 and xen was changed to set the
load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
(like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug, and you will
have to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile the
linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest way is with a
"build.sh tools" command, with any other options that you use
normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is installed as
${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
20060131:
the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,