linker.hints not being update for ARMs

Peter Jeremy peter at rulingia.com
Tue Nov 12 09:33:35 UTC 2019


On 2019-Nov-12 10:30:21 +0200, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>	warning: KLD '/boot/kernel/wlan.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file
>	warning: KLD '/boot/kernel/rtwn.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file
...
>the link.hints is indeed very old :
>neo-000# ls -ls /boot/kernel/linker.hints 
>224 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  228972 Jan  1  2010 /boot/kernel/linker.hints

Well, that's a nonsense timestamp because FreeBSD didn't support AllWinner
in 2010.  My guess is that your system clock was wrong.

>how can this be fixed?

Try rerunning kldxref (with the clock set correctly).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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