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Authored by emaste on Nov 20 2019, 7:37 PM.
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The man page has claimed that (built-in) amd is obsolete. Add a warning emitted by amd itself on startup as well.

% usr.sbin/amd/amd/obj/amd              
Nov 20 14:37:34 unknown amd[-1]/warn:  built-in amd in FreeBSD is deprecated
Amd configuration file (/etc/amd.conf): No such file or directory

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emaste added a reviewer: cy.

We should probably add the more specific- "deprecated and will be removed before FreeBSD 13" both here and the man page.

extend warning as suggested by @kevans

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 20 2019, 7:47 PM

I will commit the man page separately and MFC it in short order; I will also update it to mention that amd is available from ports (if e.g. someone doesn't want to change their existing config for some reason)