HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

[Søren Schmidt]

On 27/10/2005, at 21:12, Marcin Jessa wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:09:36 +0200
> Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well
>>> enough that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to
>>> 6.0-RELEASE.  Everyone that we have talked to has applauded the
>>> stability and functionality of the system, so we are really pleased
>>> and really eager to wrap it up and get it out to everyone.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, I've been using 6.0 since BETA1 for a very long time and it
>> seems stable like a rock. Congratulations!
>>
>
> One thing I noticed with the ata code on 6.x.
> Put in a CF to your PCMCIA to CF adaptor and try to boot your laptop.
> The kernel will immidiately core dump. This never happened on 5.x.
>
> #uname -a
> FreeBSD lapdance.yazzy.net 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #12: Wed Oct 12
> 09:06:40 UTC 2005
> root at lapdance.yazzy.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPDANCE  i386

I've just committed a fix for this a few hours ago..

Søren Schmidt
sos at FreeBSD.org