svn commit: r336844 - head

[Emmanuel Vadot]

Author: manu
Date: Sat Jul 28 20:33:08 2018
New Revision: 336844
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336844

Log:
  UPDATING: Add note about efifb support and serial output

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Sat Jul 28 20:31:03 2018	(r336843)
+++ head/UPDATING	Sat Jul 28 20:33:08 2018	(r336844)
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
 	zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
 
 20180719:
+	ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console
+	on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader
+	setup a frambuffer for us to use, just add :
+	boot_serial=YES
+	boot_multicons=YES
+	in /boot/loader.conf
+	For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have
+	an screen connected as the firmware will setup a framebuffer are that
+	u-boot will expose as an EFI framebuffer.
+
+20180719:
 	New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123).  Be sure to run mergemaster
 	or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on
 	existing systems.  Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd