svn commit: r214199 - stable/8

[Ronald Klop]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:05:00 +0200, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
>> +20101022:
>> +	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
>> +	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
>> +	revision 211583 (r210245 if building stable/8 kernel on head,
>> +	r211584 for stable/7).  A symptom of incorrect ld version is
>> +	different addresses for set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu
>> +	symbol in kernel and/or modules.
>
> Since many of our users still rely on cvsup to update FreeBSD source, it  
> might be useful to provide rough date thresholds for the branches in  
> addition to the Subversion changeset numbers (which are less easy to  
> deal with when checking out with cvsup/cvs).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Robert

As a non-freebsd developer is there an advantage to do svn checkout in  
stead of c(v)sup?

Ronald.