svn commit: r327787 - head

[Ed Maste]

Author: emaste
Date: Wed Jan 10 20:49:01 2018
New Revision: 327787
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327787

Log:
  Mention switch to ld.lld for amd64 in UPDATING
  
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Wed Jan 10 20:48:21 2018	(r327786)
+++ head/UPDATING	Wed Jan 10 20:49:01 2018	(r327787)
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
 ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
 
 20180110:
+	LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker.
+	This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and
+	executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default.
+
+	To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set
+        WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes
+
+20180110:
 	On i386, pmtimer has been removed. It's functionality has been folded
 	into apm. It was a nop on ACPI in current for a while now (but was still
 	needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to remove it