g/c

Tweak the port maintainers list a bit. Remove the dedication; it has
served its purpose.

fix current composition of 'core'

Updated the staff list.

Add my self to releng list

Sort the developers' name correctly: me, msaitoh and tsugutomo.

Note that NFS now requires reserved ports by default.

Add Heiko W. Rupp and Christoph Toshok to the supporting cast.

Add notes about steps to do after installation that are common to all
platforms; Thanks to Colin Wood and Simon Burge for their comments.

Update supporting cast: Eric Haszlakiewicz, ITOH Yasufumi, Dante Profeta,
Tim Rightnour.

Add Eduardo Horvath to port-masters list.

Fixed my name.

Long-needed update of supporting-cast list: Robert V. Baron,
Aidan Cully, MINOURA Makoto, Greg Oster, Ty Sarna, Kim Suominen,
Nathan Williams.

More edits to make these instructions apply to snapshots as well as
releases. There is now a #if _FOR_RELEASE that selects text blocks.

#if 0 the 1.3-specific release notes so this can be used for snapshots.
Rework the preamble of the dedication slightly; it now refers simply to
"the current release".

Delete someone listed in "supporting cast" purely by mistake.

Add Tim Shepard to the supporting cast.

Update Steve Allen's e-mail address.

Add Thomas Gerner and Ken Hornstein to Supporting Cast.

Move Herb's name from Supporting Cast to Core.

Make a note of the new Alpha port maintainer, Ross Harvey.

Sync port-maintainers w/ www pages.

Update for a slew of new developers.

remove outdated paragraph -- moots pr 4702 (from Simon J. Gerraty)

RCS Id Police.

some last fixes from Ted Lemon

fix up information on source distribution sets

fix Koji Imada dedication slightly

A bunch of changes intended as final fixes for 1.3:
Fix Typos.
Fix the "Compatibility Issues" section to be a bit cleaner
linguistically, and move it to a better spot in the document.
Add lines dedicating the 1.3 release to the late Koji Imada.

Added a paragraph to distrib/notes/INSTALL about the moved binaries
(dumpfs, dumplfs, quotacheck), plus added mountd to Frank's remark on
changed NFS daemons.

mention the releng team

Mention move of NFS daemons in "compatibility issues" section.

fix numerous typos, from Brian Baird <brb@brig.com>

Fix several tyops, some spotted by Thorsten Frueauf.

clarify and expand swap config.

move compat issues section after the "what's new" section. add swap compat note.

note amanda 2.4.0 isn't compatable with earlier versions

add COMPATIBILITY ISSUES section. first item; AMANDA vs dump(8)

Mention r4000 based DECstations in the "significant changes" section.

fix couple typos

Add Todd Vierling to supporting cast.

Add Simon Burge to supporting cast.

clean up a bit.

Add Wilfredo Sanchez to supporting cast.

Add SAITOH Masanobu to supporting cast.

Add Bill Studenmund to supporting cast.

branches: 1.27.2;
Update for 1.3

Added Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj to supporting cast, and change to use NetBSD.ORG
e-mail addresses where possible.

Add Kazuki Sakamoto, update Hubert Feyrer's e-mail address.

Reword the `domestic' items a bit so they do not state an explicit legal
opinion regarding ITAR/EAR.

move me out of port maintainer list, into supporting cast list

Mass update of Supporting Cast (I need to remember to do this
when I create the accounts!):

Erik Fair, Matt Thomas, Juergen Hannken-Illjes, Matthias Drochner,
Manuel Bouyer, Klaus Klein, Rob Deker, Alistair Crooks, Steve Woodford,
Matthew Jacob, Marc Horowitz, Kevin Lahey, Paul Vixie, Darren Reed,
Dave Carrel, Colin Wood, and John Birrell.

Also, update Port Masters:

Jeremy Cooper and Gordon Ross (sun3x)

Update Lennart Augustsson's e-mail address (the NetBSD.ORG address should
be listed, if possible).

Add Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> to supporting cast.
Closes PR4106.

Add Christoph Badura, David Brownlee, Enami Tsugutomo.

add support for automatically inserting the NetBSD version, using the
version number from /sys/conf/osrelease.sh.
replace MACHINE symbol with _MACH, and define _VER for version number.
fileset names must still be updated by hand; this is a bit harder to
fix unless GNU cpp's -traditional-cpp flag is used.

1.2E -> 1.2G (someone should automate this)

We're at 1.2E, currently.

eliminate dangling references to config.old;
from Klaus Klein in PR misc/3295.

Sync up INSTALL and supporting cast WWW page, adding some missing names.

merge in 1.2 branch

Sync up wtih WWW pages.

Note that Frank van der Linden is co-maintainer of port-i386, and add
Karl Schilke (rAT) to "Supporting Cast".

branches: 1.10.4;
Update "core" list and fix a couple of minor typos.

Add a section called "Using online NetBSD documentation" from
Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com> (PR #974), with the intent of making
it easier for new-comers to UN*X go get up-to-speed.

merge in changes from 1.1 release branch

branches: 1.7.2;
Mail addr update.

branches: 1.6.2;
add a file, light clean

fill in sizes

add list of mirrors.

branches: 1.3.2;
some clarifications.

Remove duplicate "are."
Suggested by Futoshi Miyamori/JH1AFN <futoshi@sramhb.sra.co.jp>.
I attempted to send this to cgd instead of committing it myself,
but he wasn't reachable.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

Remove leftovers from the separate xen port (which is now part of i386
and amd64)

branches: 1.45.2; 1.45.4;
Remove port-acorn26

OK core@

Rename NetBSD/hp700 to NetBSD/hppa.

Unfortunately our VCS isn't very helpful here.

branches: 1.43.6;
Introduce some initial documentation for NetBSD/ofppc.

branches: 1.42.4;
Add support for the Extensible MIPS ("eMIPS") platform. The
NetBSD/emips port runs on Xilinx and Beecube FPGA systems and the
Giano system simulator.

eMIPS is a platform developed at Microsoft Research for researching
reconfigurable computing. eMIPS allows dynamic loading and scheduling
of application-specific circuits for the purpose of accelerating
computations based on the current workload.

NetBSD eMIPS support for NetBSD 4.x was written at Microsoft Research
by Alessandro Forin and Neil Pittman. Microsoft Corporation has
donated full copyright to The NetBSD Foundation.

Platform support for eMIPS is the first part of Microsoft's
contribution. The second part includes the hardware accelerator
framework and will be proposed on tech-kern soon.

branches: 1.41.2;
Add INSTALL.{html,more,ps,txt} for bebox.

First cut at INSTALL notes for NetBSD/arc.
Finally we could close another ancient PR port-arc/11443.

After several years, we got the native bootloader and then had
sysinst which would do apprpriate partitioning for the bootloader,
so I've noted the last difficult part, how to specify boot commands
on the ARC BIOS.

I still wonder how many possible users of NetBSD/arc are there
who will need this topic though... ;-p

branches: 1.39.2; 1.39.6; 1.39.10;
Remove support for NetBSD/pc532.

Part 1 of pmppc removal as a port. (the machine is still supported, but
now under the evbppc port)
Note, have not touched the set lists yet, as I would like to preserve the
manpages.

branches: 1.37.4;
Descend into landisk for ALLNOTES.

branches: 1.36.4;
Add an initial set of install notes for the prep port.

Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

branches: 1.34.2;
Initial import of iyonix port.

The Iyonix is a desktop machine from Castle Technology, based on a 600MHz
XScale[tm] 80321 processor.

* Uses the bootloader from NetBSD/acorn32, which is now 32-bit compatible.
* Currently boots multiuser with a serial console.
* Device support is not yet complete.

With help from abs.

``build.sh -m xen-i386 release'' now builds a release for NetBSD/xen
for i386. The resulting release consists of:
- NetBSD/xen for i386 kernel, loader and docuemntation
- NetBSD/i386 userland sets

branches: 1.32.4;
add hp700 to list of INSTALL notes to create

The walnut port has been subsumed by the new evbppc port.

XXX: There is some work to do here to allow for different
installation notes for different eval boards...

remove obsolete arm32. comment out incomplete arc

Add (bare bone) installation instructions.

Add walnut installation notes.
Information to fill them mostly provided by eeh and simonb.

Fix some random buglets I stumbled over.

add arc and arm32

add newsmips

add mmeye and hpcsh to "ALLNOTES" build

branches: 1.24.2;
add sgimips

yet another distrib overhaul:
- move guts of distrib/Makefile.inc to distrib/common/Makefile.distrib
(fixes problem caused by implicit include of ../Makefile.inc in certain
submake conditions triggered by makefiles not yet in tree)
- removed mkdir of ${RELEASEDIR}/*; rely upon "snap_pre" target of
etc/Makefile to create all the release directories
- renamed RELINSTALL to RELEASE_INSTALL
- renamed FLOPPYINSTDIR to FLOPPY_RELEASEDIR
- renamed MDSETDIR to MDSET_RELEASEDIR
- removed ITARGET
- move release target from top level to appropriate subdirectory
- ensure release target has correct depends
- replace miniroot's IMAGE_MD_POST with common/Makefile.image IMAGEPOSTBUILD
- Makefile.image: add realall: ${IMAGE}

Updates for the ALLNOTES case:

- add cats and shark
- remove arc (it doesn't have a Makefile)

Update the "list of all ports' install notes".

Rename arm26 -> acorn26.

Use the install notes for Acorn32 ... the arm32 has to go but i'll leave it
here for Jason to use for shark

Added sun2 content to the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Add "tocs" target to TARGETS so all tables of contents may be regenerated
at once.

add: arm26 hpcmips macppc news68k next68k sparc64

branches: 1.14.4;
Make this traverse into subdirectories properly.

Stop this make from descending into directories that don't exist yet.

Add release targets, intended for use by the src/etc/Makefile `make release'.

* Delete sun3x from SUBDIR
* The merged contents file didn't work out, so nuke it and put it back
into each port directory. Most still have the now-pointless conditionals;
these now should be deleted.
* fix alpha, amiga, and arm32 to delete the maze of twisty little conditionals

branches: 1.10.2;
Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

Add notes about steps to do after installation that are common to all
platforms; Thanks to Colin Wood and Simon Burge for their comments.

slightly improve RCSid nuking

Add a sed expression to nuke $NetBSD:.*$'s from the source files. This
way, we can safely add them to all the document source files in the
repository without changing the INSTALL document output. Long term we
are going to have to decide on a better document generation mechanism
-- this one is really on its last legs and too ad hoc for words.

use bsd.prog.mk so that objdirs and other niceties work

Create _S_VERS to hold output of `osversion.sh -s`
Replace all explicit version numbers with _VER or _SVER_S
for automagic expansion

branches: 1.4.2;
add support for automatically inserting the NetBSD version, using the
version number from /sys/conf/osrelease.sh.
replace MACHINE symbol with _MACH, and define _VER for version number.
fileset names must still be updated by hand; this is a bit harder to
fix unless GNU cpp's -traditional-cpp flag is used.

Add another undef

branches: 1.2.2;
oops!

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

specify the paper size for PostScript

Set the timezone too when invoking date with a timestamp because it can
be affected too:
$ env TZ=UTC date -r 1700157305
Thu Nov 16 17:55:05 UTC 2023
$ env TZ=UTC24:24:24 date -r 1700157305
Wed Nov 15 17:30:41 UTC 2023

Use TOOL_DATE (Jan-Benedict Glaw)

Make .Nx \*V happy for current builds.

I'm not sure why mdoc complains here (not the technical reason, but
the pragmatic purpose). My best guess is that it wants to catch
mistakes like .Fx 1.6.1 (instead of .Nx 1.6.1). I'm not entirely
convinced this doesn't create more problems that it solves.

No objections in the 15 years since this was proposed netbsd-docs.

Pass the name of the compressor actually used for sets to groff and use
it in the content description (XXX need to adapt a few more copies in,
as of now, unaffected architectures)

For MKREPRO builds:
1. compute cur_date from the timestamp
2. pass the date to groff so that it can set its registers

Use -mdoc2html to generate HTML TOC to avoids warnings.

PR install/54836: fix broken conditional, passing the wrong set name suffix
to groff.

Improve table of contents.

For .txt and .more drop meaningless page numbers, those formats are
not paginated (with all due respect to line printers, 80s are over).

For .ps use actual formatting with proportional font and properly
aligned page numbers. Thanks to kre@ for his help with some of the
darker corners of troff (with all due respect to my 80s self, he/I
should have paid more attention).

Use .open/.write instead of .tm to emit TOC.

Do not pass common/macros on the command line as input.

common/main already sources them, so there's no point to process the
file again *after* the document has been formatted. Put it to SRCS so
that we still depend on it.

Don't lose groff's stderr when creating TOC.

Divert only the .Ti lines to the TOC file. Keep the rest, it may
contain useful messages (like the empty line bug in macros that was
messing up page numbers).

TODO: Since we already depend on groff extensions, we should just use
.open/.write to emit the TOC directly. But commit this for now in
case I run out of round tuits.

Make .Te and .To also emit .Ti with quoted arguments.

I missed them b/c I tested on sparc notes and sparc/install is stuck
in the 90s and doesn't include common/sysinst. Now that all emitted
.Ti have properly quoted arguments we can revert TOCPROC to simple
grep.

While here convert .Te and .To to also use $* so we we can also drop
quoting from their calls in common/sysinst now. Don't actually drop
those quotes yet though, as we probably can further simplify the call
sites by emitting the headings automatically instead of duplicating
them.

When creating the TOC file, strip all incoming double quotes, but output
quotes around the third arg of the generated Ti macro invocation.
This fixes the TOC in non-html output. Pointed out by kre.

More cleanup:
- simplify TOC handling and remove arg limit (from uwe)
- use Lk with explicit anchor text in some places
- do not allow official release builds when we can not derive the
proper date from the buildid

Modernize release notes:
- use https where possible
- adapt to cdn/nycdn and our current auto-build conventions
- automate where possible
Many thanks to uwe for lots of *roff help.

Pass the set suffix (either .tgz or .tar.xz) from the makefile.
Document the rescue set.

branches: 1.43.16; 1.43.18;
merge port-specific legal sections into the common file. most of these
entries were already in the common file, and it's a pain to maintain
them separately.

branches: 1.42.4;
For MKREPRO, remove the "%%CreationDate:" comment line from
PostScript output files.

branches: 1.41.18; 1.41.24;
Use ${TOOL_SED} instead if plain sed in Makefiles.

branches: 1.40.2; 1.40.6;
add common/sysinst to SRCS

add common/netboot to SRCS

branches: 1.38.4; 1.38.8;
Make the port-specific changelog ($MACHINE/whatis) optional by using .pso
to call a shell script which outputs nothing if the file is not present.

Remove the "whatis" file for ports where it does not contain anything
useful and hasn't been updated for years. OK tsutsui@, hubertf@.

Remove the list of donations, which was not updated since 2004. We have
up-to-date lists at http://www.NetBSD.org/donations, so add this link
to the release notes. OK by Christos.

branches: 1.36.4; 1.36.6;
Install notes into ${RELEASEDIR}/${RELEASEMACHINEDIR}, not
${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE}. The former is the blessed way as it's
defined as a "subdirectory used below ${RELEASEDIR} when building a
release" and defaults to MACHINE in bsd.own.mk.

Make sure that ${RELEASEDIR}/${RELEASEMACHINEDIR} exists before
installing notes in to it. It only ever worked because ~all ports
build at least one kernel as part of make release, and so the release
directory was created when kernel sets are installed.

XXX: Why don't we create ${RELEASEDIR}/${RELEASEMACHINEDIR} from the
top-level makefile before running make release?

Add a list of files which determine the kernel version as
DISTRIBVERDEP in Makefile.distrib, and make both sysinst and
distribution notes use that information so that they rebuild
if the kernel version changes.

Distribution notes didn't have this before, sysinst had a private
(now outdated, since sys/sys/param.h now determines version) copy
of this.

netbsd.org->NetBSD.org

Rename a large chunk of the make(1) variables which refer to a
program/tool from "FOO" to "TOOL_FOO". The new variables are:
TOOL_ASN1_COMPILE TOOL_CAP_MKDB TOOL_CAT TOOL_CKSUM TOOL_COMPILE_ET
TOOL_CONFIG TOOL_CRUNCHGEN TOOL_CTAGS TOOL_DB TOOL_EQN TOOL_FGEN
TOOL_GENCAT TOOL_GROFF TOOL_HEXDUMP TOOL_INDXBIB TOOL_INSTALLBOOT
TOOL_INSTALL_INFO TOOL_M4 TOOL_MAKEFS TOOL_MAKEINFO TOOL_MAKEWHATIS
TOOL_MDSETIMAGE TOOL_MENUC TOOL_MKCSMAPPER TOOL_MKESDB
TOOL_MKLOCALE TOOL_MKMAGIC TOOL_MKTEMP TOOL_MSGC TOOL_MTREE
TOOL_PAX TOOL_PIC TOOL_PREPMKBOOTIMAGE TOOL_PWD_MKDB TOOL_REFER
TOOL_ROFF_ASCII TOOL_ROFF_DVI TOOL_ROFF_HTML TOOL_ROFF_PS
TOOL_ROFF_RAW TOOL_RPCGEN TOOL_SOELIM TOOL_SUNLABEL TOOL_TBL
TOOL_UUDECODE TOOL_VGRIND TOOL_ZIC

For each, provide default in <bsd.sys.mk> of the form:
TOOL_FOO?= foo
and for the ${USETOOLS}=="yes" case in <bsd.own.mk>, provide override:
TOOL_FOO= ${TOOLDIR}/bin/${_TOOL_PREFIX}foo

Document all of these in bsd.README.

This cleans up a chunk of potential (and actual) namespace collision
within our build infrastructure, as well as improves consistency in
the share/mk documentation and provision of appropriate defaults for
each of these variables.

Install release files under "${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE}/..." instead of
"${RELEASEDIR}/...".

${RELEASEDIR} is never cleaned , and ${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE} is only
cleaned if UPDATE is not defined.

- define COMMON as "${.CURDIR}/../common", and use appropriately
- remove .PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../common
- update the various MERGED_SRCS lines to reflect reality

add back comment lost in previous revision

- Explicitly reference "install" as "${.CURDIR}/install" as our <bsd.own.mk>
does a ".PHONY" on "install", and this prevents .PATH lookups working for
that target, so "make" unnecessarily considered the files out of date and
rebuilt them every time. (make(1) needs a .NOTPHONY)
- Separate out the TOC dependencies so that a given ${TARG}.type only
depends upon the appropriate ${TARGET}.type.toc. Prevents unnecessary
rebuilding of all the TOCs when you're only generating one target type.
- Remove *.toc.tmp in cleannotes.

Add a comment why the more.toc needs to be generated twice.
XXX: Why do the other TOCs get generated twice? We don't need correct
page numbers there...

remove now-unused targets

branches: 1.26.2;
yet another distrib overhaul:
- move guts of distrib/Makefile.inc to distrib/common/Makefile.distrib
(fixes problem caused by implicit include of ../Makefile.inc in certain
submake conditions triggered by makefiles not yet in tree)
- removed mkdir of ${RELEASEDIR}/*; rely upon "snap_pre" target of
etc/Makefile to create all the release directories
- renamed RELINSTALL to RELEASE_INSTALL
- renamed FLOPPYINSTDIR to FLOPPY_RELEASEDIR
- renamed MDSETDIR to MDSET_RELEASEDIR
- removed ITARGET
- move release target from top level to appropriate subdirectory
- ensure release target has correct depends
- replace miniroot's IMAGE_MD_POST with common/Makefile.image IMAGEPOSTBUILD
- Makefile.image: add realall: ${IMAGE}

replace _SRC_TOP_ with NETBSDSRCDIR, since the latter is the "public" version

simplify by using stuff from ../Makefile.inc

don't set the owner or group when installing into $RELEASEDIR

Clean this up for a proper cross-build setup.

1. Replace all "groff"'s with $GROFF so the right binary is picked up depending
on new or old toolchain setups and USETOOLS
2. Remove the DESTDIR check where it adds -M. This is pointless as some of the
file in share/tmac have hard coded references to /usr/share/tmac so using the
new ones in $DESTDIR will just point you back into /usr/share anyways...
(the new toolchain has no issue here as it's tmac files all point into
$TOOLDIR. Any old setups should just depend on the local setup instead of
some mix of DESTDIR and old files the -M would have produced).

s/MAKETOCS/MKTOCS/

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Add a table of contents (TOC) to the release notes.
This makes it _much_ more user-friendly, as it allows users
to skip to the parts they want easily.
At present, the TOCs are generated files, and can be regenerated
with "make tocs" (probably has to be run twice to account for
the size of the table itself).
TOCs are named INSTALL.{PostScript,ASCII,HTML,more}.toc instead of
INSTALL.{ps,txt,html,more}.toc because that's what \*[format]
expands to.

Nuke gratuitous usage of .for.

Use bsd.man.mk (maybe should be something else) instead of bsd.prog.mk, and
do the cleaning differently.

Use bsd.own.mk, not bsd.obj.mk.

When making the release notes, use the macros in ${DESTDIR}

- depend upon ../common/macros as well
- call groff with -dM instead of -dMACHINE, and change the macro use
accordingly. remove -dV_S since nothing used it.

add dinky .pdf target which runs ps2pdf on the .ps source

When output device is ascii, load tmac.tty-char explicity as nroff does,
so that some developer's names are translated saner way.

branches: 1.11.4;
Include bsd.obj.mk so we can have RELEASEDIR in /etc/mk.conf.

- Replace inline mirrors list with a link to
http://www.netbsd.org/Sites/net.html
It's probably safe to assume that a user wanting access to a mirror
site can access this URL...
- Highlight that with the latest BIND code you need to now use
options { version "newfoo"; }
to change the infoleak string. (1.3.3 didn't have the infoleak,
but it crept back into 1.4)

Fix pasto.

Use 7-bit ASCII for INSTALL.txt.

Use -Tlatin1 for output.

branches: 1.6.4;
Add release targets, intended for use by the src/etc/Makefile `make release'.

Add target used when importing INSTALL.more to sysinst images.

branches: 1.4.2;
workaround to make "make depend" succeed

remove NOPROG (nothing uses it). however, set MKOBJ=no if appropriate

Also clean up ${TARG}.more.

Give the common install notes components their own subdirectory.
Also, alpha and i386 now use a single merged common/sysinst,
and arm32 and sparc have a single merged common/xfer.

g/c

RCS Id Police.

Add myself to donations list

Change previous at request of contributor.

Add Allan 'Norm' Crain for his contribution of a Sun3/E, per gwr.

branches: 1.8.2;
Add "Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility, NASA Ames Research Center",
per request of NAS management personnel.

Add the following individuals for their dontations of money and/or
equipment to the NetBSD Project:

David Brownlee
Ralph Campbell
Christopher G. Demetriou
Scott Ellis
Perry E. Metzger

merge in 1.2 branch

Add the Free Hardware Foundation.

Acknowledge a donation from James Chacon.

Sync with WWW server.

branches: 1.2.4;
Update from www page.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

g/c

Fix Thorsten Lockert's attribution.

RCS Id Police.

Fix up my attribution, and and realphabetize Ted's last add.

Credit me and the ISC

remove my name from here now that it is not needed.

fix numerous typos, from Brian Baird <brb@brig.com>

A requirement from sysinst.

branches: 1.8.2;
Update.

I found one file where I used the Bezerkeley advertising clause, oh well

Update to add Matthias Drochner and yours truly.

Update, and correct a couple of entries.

merge in changes from 1.1 release branch

Redo alphabetization to an actually well-known alphabet..

Update based on current sources.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

g/c

regen

regen

regen

regen

regen

regen

Regen.

regen

regen

regenerate (with #l info)

regen

regen

regenerate

regen

regen

regen

add sup.owl.de

regenerate

regenerate

add ftp.dk.netbsd.org (sunsite.auc.dk)

regenerate. PS: the rcsid gets nuked, but it's not necessary IMHO

RCS Id Police.

regenerate

branches: 1.9.2;
regenerated by localsrc/admin/mirrors/fmt.pl

merge in 1.2 branch

branches: 1.7.4;
merge in changes from 1.1 release branch

branches: 1.6.2;
add another mirror

add a mirror

note another.

branches: 1.3.2;
case the joint...

add list of mirrors.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

g/c

Add notes about steps to do after installation that are common to all
platforms; Thanks to Colin Wood and Simon Burge for their comments.

- remove rarely maintained whatis files
- wipe out changes lists for 4.0 (newer ones might be pulled from doc/CHANGES)
- list some updated 3rd party programs

branches: 1.1.6; 1.1.8; 1.1.16; 1.1.22;
Make the port-specific changelog ($MACHINE/whatis) optional by using .pso
to call a shell script which outputs nothing if the file is not present.

Remove the "whatis" file for ports where it does not contain anything
useful and hasn't been updated for years. OK tsutsui@, hubertf@.

branches: 1.2.32;
- define COMMON as "${.CURDIR}/../common", and use appropriately
- remove .PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../common
- update the various MERGED_SRCS lines to reflect reality

branches: 1.1.2;
Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

Various style fixes (and some of VAX related errors and copy&pastos),
from Mouse on tech-install.

branches: 1.7.6;
s/developement/development/

Modernize release notes:
- use https where possible
- adapt to cdn/nycdn and our current auto-build conventions
- automate where possible
Many thanks to uwe for lots of *roff help.

Pass the set suffix (either .tgz or .tar.xz) from the makefile.
Document the rescue set.

branches: 1.4.2; 1.4.4;
Fix a typo

Document debug sets and kernel module directory.

branches: 1.2.8; 1.2.14;
- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes

branches: 1.1.24;
Move common/contents file into MD dirs again.
I know it isn't a good thing to have many copy-and-pasted contents
(set file descriptions etc) in all MD files, but it's much more annoying
to maintain a bunch of .if \n [${MACHINE}] conditionals for all ports
and maintainers rarely notice that they also have to prepare or update
MD contents in MI content file with messy ifdefs.

XXX: of course common text should be shared by mdoc macro etc.
but I doubt playing mdoc(7) is really worth...

- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes

branches: 1.2.26;
Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.

branches: 1.1.34; 1.1.42; 1.1.44;
Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

branches: 1.2.32;
use ../common/sysinst

branches: 1.1.2;
Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

merge port-specific legal sections into the common file. most of these
entries were already in the common file, and it's a pain to maintain
them separately.

first pass de-suckification for 2015. modernize content a bit, fix dirty
rotten lies, improve wording, sync legalese with reality, yada yada yada.

branches: 1.3.26;
Neil Carson's ad clause is no more.

branches: 1.2.34;
use .It for formatting legal section.

Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

first pass de-suckification for 2015. modernize content a bit, fix dirty
rotten lies, improve wording, sync legalese with reality, yada yada yada.

branches: 1.14.26;
Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.

branches: 1.13.2; 1.13.4;
Update an URL for David Pilling's !SparkPlug. From prep.RISCOS rev 1.19.

Use \*[Lt] and \*[Gt] rather than '<' and '>' directly.

branches: 1.11.20;
It's possible to launch the installation kernel by double-clicking it now.

Fix a couple of .Pa that should have been .Pp.

Correct another reference to BtNetBSD.zip.
Also spell "RISC OS" consistently and correctly throughout.

BtNetBSD is shipped as a Spark archive complete with RISC OS file types now,
which simplifies things considerably.

Fix sources of software.

boot32 can boot gzipped kernels (when it works at all), so there's no need
to require a standalone gunzip.

Fix a couple of error flagged by mdoc.

formatting and whitespace cleanups

Correct the URL for David Pilling's Web site.

branches: 1.2.2;
Convert the bulk of the prep.RISCOS file into -mdoc. This is a purely
syntactic conversion -- the semantics should be exactly the same.

I haven't yet converted section 5 (advanced stuff), appendix A (device
naming) or appendix B (credits), and mdoc, even the souped-up version used
for INSTALL, seems to be lacking a fourth-level header macro, which this
wants.

Of course, the presence of fourth-level headers does somewhat indicate that
this whole area wants cleaning up lots.

Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

first pass de-suckification for 2015. modernize content a bit, fix dirty
rotten lies, improve wording, sync legalese with reality, yada yada yada.

branches: 1.22.26;
Fix a lot more grammatical errors and inconsistencies (e.g. RiscOS -> RISC
OS).

!SparkPlug, not !SparcPlug

Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.

branches: 1.19.6; 1.19.8;
Update urls for David Pilling's !SparkPlug and Sergio Monesi's fsck suite.
The old urls were dead.

branches: 1.18.2; 1.18.6;
Update URLs after website reorganization. patch by OKANO Takayoshi, from
PR 37070.

branches: 1.17.4;
Add missing apostrophe.

Spell "separate" correctly. From Zafer Aydogan.

branches: 1.15.4; 1.15.6;
Fix some URLs. From OKANO Takayoshi in PR 33001.

netbsd.org->NetBSD.org

Fix typos

Reflect the changes to the installation process on RISC OS. The
installation process has been simplified a great deal.

whitespace cleanup

Correct the URL for David Pilling's Web site.

branches: 1.9.2;
Some extra comments

Add a comment about the unpacking and settyping of the archive.

Some more typo and punctuation fixes.

The patches must have been missed... so i re-aplied the patches wiz made on
this document .,... thanks wiz for proofreading ! :)

Update this allmost ancient prep.RISCOS file ... would like ppl. to proof
read it.

Typo, grammar and punctuation fixes.

Make clear where the included gzip program is.

Update this ancient prep document to refect the new bootloader... it still
needs heaps of work and needs proofreading but its something to start with.

Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

branches: 1.1.34;
Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

- remove rarely maintained whatis files
- wipe out changes lists for 4.0 (newer ones might be pulled from doc/CHANGES)
- list some updated 3rd party programs

branches: 1.3.18;
Document a couple of significant changes in 4.0. This should perhaps go
in "upgrade" rather than "whatis", but I'm not sure.

branches: 1.2.6;
update MD "whatis" to closer to what 1.6 provides

branches: 1.1.2;
Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

- move "MD instructions on setting up boot media"
from common/xfer with messy mdoc .if conditionals
into MD xfer files so that developers can see
what contents are missing or obsolete and should be
written or updated
- remove some useless MD description for maintainability

XXX: still a bunch of unmaintained .if \n [${MACHINE}] in common files

branches: 1.1.34;
Copy the arm32 INSTALL notes, removing references to CATS, DNARD and RC7500
along the way.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

branches: 1.4.32;
- define COMMON as "${.CURDIR}/../common", and use appropriately
- remove .PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../common
- update the various MERGED_SRCS lines to reflect reality

branches: 1.3.2;
Use bsd.man.mk (maybe should be something else) instead of bsd.prog.mk, and
do the cleaning differently.

Update dependancies to include common/sysinst and common/upgrade
(where appropriate).

branches: 1.1.10;
Makefiles for notes.

Various style fixes (and some of VAX related errors and copy&pastos),
from Mouse on tech-install.

branches: 1.25.4;
Document netbsd-GENERIC.QEMU.gz

branches: 1.24.2;
alpha: GENERIC.MP is no more

s/developement/development/

Pass the name of the compressor actually used for sets to groff and use
it in the content description (XXX need to adapt a few more copies in,
as of now, unaffected architectures)

Mention that USE_XZ_SETS are either always xzipped, and in evbarm might
be xzipped or gzipped.

Modernize release notes:
- use https where possible
- adapt to cdn/nycdn and our current auto-build conventions
- automate where possible
Many thanks to uwe for lots of *roff help.

Pass the set suffix (either .tgz or .tar.xz) from the makefile.
Document the rescue set.

branches: 1.18.2; 1.18.4;
Fix a typo

Document debug sets and kernel module directory.

branches: 1.16.8; 1.16.14;
- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes

branches: 1.15.24;
Move common/contents file into MD dirs again.
I know it isn't a good thing to have many copy-and-pasted contents
(set file descriptions etc) in all MD files, but it's much more annoying
to maintain a bunch of .if \n [${MACHINE}] conditionals for all ports
and maintainers rarely notice that they also have to prepare or update
MD contents in MI content file with messy ifdefs.

XXX: of course common text should be shared by mdoc macro etc.
but I doubt playing mdoc(7) is really worth...

migrate */contents -> common/contents, as there was *way* too much
unnecessary duplication. wrap the MD stuff in .if r_foo \{\ ... .\}

update copyright date

We ship XFree 3.3.6 these days, not 3.3.3.1.

Remove paragraph about secr set.

branches: 1.10.8;
* Delete sun3x from SUBDIR
* The merged contents file didn't work out, so nuke it and put it back
into each port directory. Most still have the now-pointless conditionals;
these now should be deleted.
* fix alpha, amiga, and arm32 to delete the maze of twisty little conditionals

Remove these before someone changes them. There is a common contents file
in distrib/notes/common/contents, conditionalized for the differences
between platform distributions.

1) Remove all vestiges of tar from src/distrib. Use pax and appropriate
commandlines for all tar operations. (work supplied by Matt Green)
2) Update arch/*/md.c to deal with new sysinst/run.c. Special case
anything that needs to do a redirect or a pipe.
3) #if 0 some unused code in target.c. This code will need to be updated,
or special cased with do_system.

Big thank you to Matt for all his work on this.

More edits to make these instructions apply to snapshots as well as
releases. There is now a #if _FOR_RELEASE that selects text blocks.

Edits for toolchain installation.

Insert edits suggested by cgd@netbsd.org and fix the cpp alpha/*.tgz
unclosed-comment error. (sigh)

Modify ./contents + ./install;
* no more binary toolchain tarball
* source toolchain tarball still present
* some english
* add bs=18k on the floppy dd(1) example, just to be safe on systems
that don't like to cross cylinder boundaries (and it's faster)
Modify ./upgrade:
* untangle the first pp

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

some srm firmware (including legacy platforms) still available at hp ftp.
not sure if HPE selling firmware CDs, but it is definitely not Compaq anymore.

branches: 1.19.8;
spelling (DEC called it "TURBOchannel")

- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes

branches: 1.17.26;
Final round of INSTALL cleanups for 5.0.

Yet another round of INSTALL fixes.

branches: 1.15.2; 1.15.4;
Use \*[Gt].

branches: 1.14.16; 1.14.18; 1.14.26; 1.14.32; 1.14.36;
netbsd.org->NetBSD.org

clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights

branches: 1.12.2;
Kill ncr(4), mention esiop(4).

more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups

major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

branches: 1.9.4;
sync with i386 about ahc.

Be more precise about which of Adaptec's AIC chips we support.
Fixes PR kern/7011 by Olaf Seibert.

Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

#if 0 the entire supported hardware section and add a #else note explaining
its absence from the snapshot instructions.

Document the support of LEMAC and DEPCA type ISA cards.

Insert edits suggested by cgd@netbsd.org and fix the cpp alpha/*.tgz
unclosed-comment error. (sigh)

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

fix a/an grammar in obvious cases

branches: 1.38.18;
spelling (DEC called it "TURBOchannel")

Final round of INSTALL cleanups for 5.0.

Yet another round of INSTALL fixes.

Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.

branches: 1.34.2; 1.34.4;
Use \*[Lt] and \*[Gt] rather than \*< and \*> .

branches: 1.33.2;
Convert TNF licenses to new 2 clause variant

branches: 1.32.2; 1.32.6; 1.32.8;
Update URLs after website reorganization. patch by OKANO Takayoshi, from
PR 37070.

branches: 1.31.2; 1.31.4; 1.31.8;
PR/13749 - Incorrect options specified for dd(1) in tape installs.

Cleanup dd options accordingly to the following policy:
1) put if, of, bs, conv in this order
2) for reading/writing from/to disk don't use sync
4) reading from tape - use sync
3) writing to tape - use osync

Noted by Don Yuniskis (auryn at gci-net.com) via install/13749. Thanks!
Reviewed by <martin>. Thank you!

Fix some URLs. From OKANO Takayoshi in PR 33001.

Updated URL for list of NetBSD mirrors.

branches: 1.28.2;
Update text since there are now three install floppies. It's
written to cover the 2-floppy case as well, so if this file is
updated later with delta's needed on netbsd-2-0, this one revision
does not need to be excluded.

branches: 1.27.2;
- fix some typos (netsbd.org -> NetBSD.org)
- add trailing slashes to URLs where appropriate
- netbsd.org -> NetBSD.org

netbsd.org->NetBSD.org

consistently use Ic for sysinst

clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights

branches: 1.23.2;
Replace tabs with spaces in two places inside .(disp, so that the
bootptab and dhcpd.conf entries are not brought flush against the
right margin, but instead get sane formatting.

Quote > and < characters with \*> and \*< in order to get semi-correct
HTML as one of the results.

Minor spelling fix. s/necesary/necessary/

more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups

major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

update copyright date

branches: 1.17.2;
Fix netboot link - noted by ADAM Sulmicki

Discuss netboot on 3000/xxx and other old SRM systems. Reported by Charles.

branches: 1.15.2;
Describe all six ways of loading the installer.

Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

s/tar xpfz/tar xpzf/

Add notes about steps to do after installation that are common to all
platforms; Thanks to Colin Wood and Simon Burge for their comments.

Keep trying to make this amount to something.

Improve the alternate unpacking shellcode.

Edits for toolchain installation.

Insert edits suggested by cgd@netbsd.org and fix the cpp alpha/*.tgz
unclosed-comment error. (sigh)

Note that a ./MAKEDEV all is needed, document the install script
functions, briefly describe a manual install, fix section cross
references, and other misc edits.

Correct spelling in */upgrade. More general editing in alpha/install.

Getting closer.

Modify ./contents + ./install;
* no more binary toolchain tarball
* source toolchain tarball still present
* some english
* add bs=18k on the floppy dd(1) example, just to be safe on systems
that don't like to cross cylinder boundaries (and it's faster)
Modify ./upgrade:
* untangle the first pp

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

merge port-specific legal sections into the common file. most of these
entries were already in the common file, and it's a pain to maintain
them separately.

branches: 1.9.32; 1.9.78;
avoid empty lines between advert clause

branches: 1.8.2;
use .It for formatting legal section.

more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups

major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

indent paragraph following "in the following statement, This software [...]"

branches: 1.4.10;
Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

branches: 1.6.32;
clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights

branches: 1.5.2;
major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

branches: 1.4.10;
Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

branches: 1.9.34;
major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

branches: 1.8.10;
Merge the alpha and i386 upgrade sections: .so ../common/upgrade

Note that a ./MAKEDEV all is needed, document the install script
functions, briefly describe a manual install, fix section cross
references, and other misc edits.

Correct spelling in */upgrade. More general editing in alpha/install.

s-/usr/mdec/install-&boot-

Modify ./contents + ./install;
* no more binary toolchain tarball
* source toolchain tarball still present
* some english
* add bs=18k on the floppy dd(1) example, just to be safe on systems
that don't like to cross cylinder boundaries (and it's faster)
Modify ./upgrade:
* untangle the first pp

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

Make the port-specific changelog ($MACHINE/whatis) optional by using .pso
to call a shell script which outputs nothing if the file is not present.

Remove the "whatis" file for ports where it does not contain anything
useful and hasn't been updated for years. OK tsutsui@, hubertf@.

Clear the old list of changes (between NetBSD 2.0 and 3.0 releases) as a
preparation for filling the list of changes between NetBSD 3.0 and 4.0
releases. In some obsolete claims like "this is the n-th major releae of
NetBSD for the xyz platform" replace n by XXX.

branches: 1.10.6; 1.10.12; 1.10.14;
remove unnecessary .It

update MD "whatis" to closer to what 1.6 provides

clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights

branches: 1.7.2;
more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups

major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

branches: 1.5.8;
Document some of the 1.3 -> 1.4 features.

branches: 1.4.2;
Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

- move "MD instructions on setting up boot media"
from common/xfer with messy mdoc .if conditionals
into MD xfer files so that developers can see
what contents are missing or obsolete and should be
written or updated
- remove some useless MD description for maintainability

XXX: still a bunch of unmaintained .if \n [${MACHINE}] in common files

branches: 1.7.34;
major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

branches: 1.6.4;
Fix doubled 'the's.

Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

Keep trying to make this amount to something.

RCS Id Police.

Various corrections, additions and reformatting.

branches: 1.1.2;
First go at alpha install notes.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

Various style fixes (and some of VAX related errors and copy&pastos),
from Mouse on tech-install.

branches: 1.13.2;
Move DRM-driver firmware from base to its own set, gpufw

This set is only installed on amd64,i386,evbarm.
This set is installed on minimal installs and on install media, in
case someone needs it for basic driver functionality.

Comments:
Switched to a single MK tunable for it - that is probably unneeded.

An upcoming DRM update will include even fatter firmware, and we'd
like to minimize the impact of it.

s/developement/development/

Pass the name of the compressor actually used for sets to groff and use
it in the content description (XXX need to adapt a few more copies in,
as of now, unaffected architectures)

Mention that USE_XZ_SETS are either always xzipped, and in evbarm might
be xzipped or gzipped.

Modernize release notes:
- use https where possible
- adapt to cdn/nycdn and our current auto-build conventions
- automate where possible
Many thanks to uwe for lots of *roff help.

Pass the set suffix (either .tgz or .tar.xz) from the makefile.
Document the rescue set.

branches: 1.7.2; 1.7.4;
Fix a typo

Document debug sets and kernel module directory.

branches: 1.5.8; 1.5.14;
- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes

first pass de-suckification for 2015. modernize content a bit, fix dirty
rotten lies, improve wording, sync legalese with reality, yada yada yada.

Nuke the five(!) install floppies. Welcome to 2015. Approved by
dsl@, Master of Port.

branches: 1.2.12;
Add a description of the 'modules' set for all arches which have
MODULAR somewhere in the configs.

branches: 1.1.4; 1.1.6;
Move common/contents file into MD dirs again.
I know it isn't a good thing to have many copy-and-pasted contents
(set file descriptions etc) in all MD files, but it's much more annoying
to maintain a bunch of .if \n [${MACHINE}] conditionals for all ports
and maintainers rarely notice that they also have to prepare or update
MD contents in MI content file with messy ifdefs.

XXX: of course common text should be shared by mdoc macro etc.
but I doubt playing mdoc(7) is really worth...

PR 55413: 64-bit and OK police; grammar improvements.
From Michael Siegel.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24; 1.1.98;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

merge port-specific legal sections into the common file. most of these
entries were already in the common file, and it's a pain to maintain
them separately.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24; 1.1.70;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

branches: 1.2.40;
Final round of INSTALL cleanups for 5.0.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24; 1.1.32; 1.1.34;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

Make the port-specific changelog ($MACHINE/whatis) optional by using .pso
to call a shell script which outputs nothing if the file is not present.

Remove the "whatis" file for ports where it does not contain anything
useful and hasn't been updated for years. OK tsutsui@, hubertf@.

Add infos about ACPI (now enabled by default) and cdrom images.

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.8; 1.1.10;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

- move "MD instructions on setting up boot media"
from common/xfer with messy mdoc .if conditionals
into MD xfer files so that developers can see
what contents are missing or obsolete and should be
written or updated
- remove some useless MD description for maintainability

XXX: still a bunch of unmaintained .if \n [${MACHINE}] in common files

branches: 1.1.2; 1.1.4; 1.1.24;
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are,
for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document
to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff.

The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform
to add them.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

Based on feedback (various), remove the .toc files from CVS,
and instead generate them each and every time (twice!).
Based on a suggestion from Alan Barrett, allow setting MAKETOC=no
to permit rebuilding the install notes without regenerating the
.toc files, to allow more speedy debugging of markup changes.

Initial generation of table of contents for each version of the release notes.

branches: 1.3.32;
- define COMMON as "${.CURDIR}/../common", and use appropriately
- remove .PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../common
- update the various MERGED_SRCS lines to reflect reality

branches: 1.2.2;
Use bsd.man.mk (maybe should be something else) instead of bsd.prog.mk, and
do the cleaning differently.

branches: 1.1.10;
Makefiles for notes.

Various style fixes (and some of VAX related errors and copy&pastos),
from Mouse on tech-install.

branches: 1.25.6;
s/developement/development/

Modernize release notes:
- use https where possible
- adapt to cdn/nycdn and our current auto-build conventions
- automate where possible
Many thanks to uwe for lots of *roff help.

Pass the set suffix (either .tgz or .tar.xz) from the makefile.
Document the rescue set.

branches: 1.22.2; 1.22.4;
Fix a typo

Document debug sets and kernel module directory.

branches: 1.20.8; 1.20.14;
- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes

branches: 1.19.24;
Move common/contents file into MD dirs again.
I know it isn't a good thing to have many copy-and-pasted contents
(set file descriptions etc) in all MD files, but it's much more annoying
to maintain a bunch of .if \n [${MACHINE}] conditionals for all ports
and maintainers rarely notice that they also have to prepare or update
MD contents in MI content file with messy ifdefs.

XXX: of course common text should be shared by mdoc macro etc.
but I doubt playing mdoc(7) is really worth...

migrate */contents -> common/contents, as there was *way* too much
unnecessary duplication. wrap the MD stuff in .if r_foo \{\ ... .\}

- use "press" instead of "hit"
- update copyright date

We ship XFree 3.3.6 these days, not 3.3.3.1.

Remove paragraph about secr set.

branches: 1.14.8;
* Delete sun3x from SUBDIR
* The merged contents file didn't work out, so nuke it and put it back
into each port directory. Most still have the now-pointless conditionals;
these now should be deleted.
* fix alpha, amiga, and arm32 to delete the maze of twisty little conditionals

Remove these before someone changes them. There is a common contents file
in distrib/notes/common/contents, conditionalized for the differences
between platform distributions.

1) Remove all vestiges of tar from src/distrib. Use pax and appropriate
commandlines for all tar operations. (work supplied by Matt Green)
2) Update arch/*/md.c to deal with new sysinst/run.c. Special case
anything that needs to do a redirect or a pipe.
3) #if 0 some unused code in target.c. This code will need to be updated,
or special cased with do_system.

Big thank you to Matt for all his work on this.

We don't ship with a FORTRAN compiler... point this out (the old text was
misguiding).
We do ship, however, with an Objective C compiler.

RCS Id Police.

Update to newer layout grabbing suitable stuff from i386 notes.
Apply fixes from Thorsten Frueauf from pr 4745.

Remove the 13 from sets13 and correct the file sizes.

Initial updates to document install and upgrades using the MI miniroot.

Update revision numbers for 1.3.

branches: 1.6.2;
Reword the `domestic' items a bit so they do not state an explicit legal
opinion regarding ITAR/EAR.

update notes from release branch and clean up a little

branches: 1.4.4;
merge in changes from 1.1 release branch

branches: 1.3.2;
update from osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)

various small fixes.

branches: 1.1.2;
install document parts for amiga arch.

Note ACA500 support.

Note X-Surf 100 support.

Note Mediator PCI 4000 support.

Add X-Surf IDE.

branches: 1.52.2;
Update minimal requirements. Note Mediator PCI 1200 support.

Fix markup, sort SilverSurfer

Note clockport support and SilverSurfer driver.

branches: 1.49.2;
Add info about FastATA 1200

Add mppb man page to distrib lists, mention the new driver in install notes.

Mention Amiga PCI support in CHANGES and installation notes. Approved by phx.

Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.

branches: 1.45.26; 1.45.34; 1.45.36;
Clarify Apollo-accelerator-modifed-mainboard-SCSI vs.
Apollo-accelerator-provided-SCSI support status.

branches: 1.44.2;
clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights

branches: 1.43.2;
remove extraneous ".bullet)" which prevented compilation.

Added repulse audio board.

Minor spelling fix. s/accellerator/accelerator/

Add some omissions.

We really need a MMU. Tell people what models don't have any out of the box.

more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups

major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

My src tree wasn't completely up-to-date when I measured the current
syssrc size. Correct it.

Adapt size table to bigger /usr and /usr/src.

branches: 1.34.4;
Mention initial support of X-surf boards (Ethernet port).

branches: 1.33.4;
- we support the parallel HyperCom[34]+ ports now.
- while we're here, fix table formatting.

Adapt minimum memory and disk requirements to reality:
- due to a pmap bug, really low memory booting doesn't work
- NetBSD-1.4 needs much more disk than earlier releases.

Add the HyperCom 3+ and 4+ Zorro bus boards to the list of supported devices.

new version number syntax due to new formatting;
yet another release...

branches: 1.29.2;
Update: CS MK III/PPC scsi, ATAPI; mention no-Xserver for Retina Z2 and
A2410.

Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

Add the Ariadne II to the supported device list.

Mention that Apollo3060-reworked Amiga 3000 SCSI is supported now.

It's "HyperCOM 3Z", not "HyperCom Z3".

Clarify description of FPU emulation and A2232 support, the latter on
request of PR 5226 by Eric Delcamp.

Remove the comment about a know problem with the Ariadne ethernet card,
because the problem is fixed.

Warn about possible Ariadne problem.

RCS Id Police.

Add some missing devices:
- cv64/3d in ZorroII mode
- Melody, HyperCom in the HTML file

Increase the recommended size of the /usr partition and rewrite the
comment for the CyberVision64/3D after the Console mode works now.

update for the cv64/3d and the hypercom 3 and 4.

branches: 1.17.2;
Mention Melody board.

Update the supported hardware.

Update.

Note the addition of FPU emulation.

Note the addition of Amiga audio and DraCo RTC, and the availability (although
since long time) of A2000/A3000/A4000 RTC.

Updates; from my recent netbsd-1.2D snapshooting efforts.

Updated for new cirrus and et4000 boards and increase the /usr size.

Some corrections (mostly typos) by Thorsten Frueauf (PR 3315).

- increase the / and /usr recommended partition sizes by 5 MB for
crash dumps and the increased kernel source size, respectively
- mention the newly available IBM (720/1440k) floppy encoding and the
floppy driver write-protect bug.

Mention 4 graphics boards which we forgot. (Twice Mea Culpa --- I
integrated the drivers long time ago, and I was supposed to check the
INSTALL few days ago)

update notes from release branch and clean up a little

branches: 1.6.4;
We don't support 68060 cpu's yet, so explicitly talk about 020+030+040.

Fixed typo. Closes PR #2000.

merge in changes from 1.1 release branch

branches: 1.3.2;
update from osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)

various small fixes.

branches: 1.1.2;
install document parts for amiga arch.

Pass the set suffix (either .tgz or .tar.xz) from the makefile.
Document the rescue set.

branches: 1.36.4; 1.36.6;
Mention the installer question for the boot command.

branches: 1.35.40;
Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.

branches: 1.34.2; 1.34.4;
Fix warning which makes html version a bit mangled.

branches: 1.33.2;
Convert TNF licenses to new 2 clause variant

branches: 1.32.16; 1.32.18; 1.32.26; 1.32.32; 1.32.34;
IDE drives are no longer configured as sdN

loadbsd doesn't work for ELF kernels.

clean up whitespace, formatting, copyrights

branches: 1.29.2;
Remove INSTWDCPCM, because for a while now, GENERIC (and INSTALL) have
included both pcmcia support, and wdc instead of idesc as the driver for
the Amiga internal ATA connector.

Clarifications suggested by lugosi@online.de and hubertf.

Cosmetics.

more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups

major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...

- use "press" instead of "hit"
- update copyright date

branches: 1.23.4;
Fix doubled 'the'.

Fix doubled 'the's.

.em->.Em

Warn people to add at least a /usr when asked (whoever really knows better
will know how to ignore that advice).
Warn people not to use the c partitions for anything.
Advice people to use the look-at-disklabel option to find out about the
NetBSD names of their partitions.

Warn users to quite their PPC co-CPU before booting NetBSD from AmigaOS.

Remove comments about additional bootblock remarks, and add additional
remarks about bootblock limitations where they were missing.

branches: 1.17.2;
Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.

s,upgrade,install,

Add missing pieces in boot procedure description.

RCS Id Police.

Update to newer layout grabbing suitable stuff from i386 notes.
Apply fixes from Thorsten Frueauf from pr 4745.

- add device nodes for explicit high/middle/low density modes of tape
drives, as some drives (like ARCHIVE VIPER 150S) refuse to work with the
default.
- add a hint about this to the INSTALL document.

OS 3.1 ROMs are (usually) 40.68 or 40.70, but never 41.xxx

Initial updates to document install and upgrades using the MI miniroot.

Update revision numbers for 1.3.

branches: 1.9.2;
We dont need to mention 'sd0*' any longer.

Updates; from my recent netbsd-1.2D snapshooting efforts.

update notes from release branch and clean up a little

branches: 1.6.4;
fix option and add info on disable sync. fixes pr#1802

update trunk with recent change that fixes mount_ados mistake.

merge in changes from 1.1 release branch