bsd15 on real hardware
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:27:25 UTC
I did a pre-run on upgrading my 14.3/stable system to 15 today. It was an in-place from-source upgrade (main-n279819-6ea7e1f92882). I ran into the IPv[46] addresses on interfaces vs bridge issue (I use bhyve) I'd seen people talking about it in email but didn't appreciate how it might get me, but new where to start digging. IPv4 was easy, IPv6 took more digging (auto_linklocal). I transitioned from BIOS to UEFI, which was a little unexpected (not sure why I didn't start UEFI), so I had to fix resolution/font/etc. (efi_max_resolution="1280x1024", screen.font="8x16") Most of the time was spent trying to figure out what was "wrong" with vidcontrol (no modes); "sysctl machdep.bootmethod" got me on the right track. I have a trackpad-mouse on the console, and the mouse device changed. Looks like event-devices aren't supported by stock moused so I resorted to using the older drivers. Seems like that would be something you'd want to have a good solution for, otherwise there will be a lot of questions and people will get stuck on old code. (hw.usb.usbhid.enable="0"; ums_load="YES") I had to blow away the old object tree (cleanuniverse) because it wasn't totally happy. But compiled kernel, rebooted, made a new poudriere jail and compiled my whole local repo, then upgraded world, then force-upgraded all packages.