Re: FreeBSD 14 Kernel changes

After a hint I have found uaudio & the firmware below sys/modules and 
sys/dev. Probably way back I have added them manually to my kernel 
config and forgott about it.

Thanks

Leaves just the question about numa and ffs open. In case, anyone knows. 
For FFS I'll give it a run in virtualbox.


Am 29.09.23 um 14:54 schrieb Ede Wolf:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to make the jump from 12.4 to 14, and am wondering about 
> some changes to GENERIC.
> 
> For some reason, iwm has been renamed to iwn, fine. But in 12.4 I've 
> also had a required firmare:
> 
> device          iwm3168fw
> 
> That seems to be lacking in GENERIC 14.
> 
> In addition, 12.4 had an usb audio device:
> device            snd_uaudio
> 
> That I am heavily reliant on. That seems to be missing in 14 as well.
> 
> Neither is mentioned in UPDATING. Any information or further reading on 
> this? Since it is a headless box, I'd like it to come up again with 
> (wireless) network.
> 
> 
> Finally, two more general questions:
> 
> options         NUMA
> 
> is generally not needed? I am not up to date wether newer cpus make 
> somewhat use of that internally.
> 
> Further, if going root on zfs, is ffs for some reasons still requred?
> 
> As for some other, more obsuce partitions, like for boot/efi (even 
> though those are msdos, but you never know the crosslinks) or for 
> bootloader related stuff?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ede
>