From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 26 09:45:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CC0106566C for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:45:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from amailer.gwdg.de (amailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272A78FC14 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:45:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from p578b68b8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.139.104.184] helo=krabat.raven.hur) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lxzr6-0002gF-QZ; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:36:57 +0200 Message-ID: <49F41D20.6050601@gwdg.de> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:36:48 +0200 From: Rainer Hurling User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090404) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Morgan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated: Id:rhurlin X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMPAT_FREEBSDn X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:45:42 -0000 For example if you are using x11/nvidia-driver you have to install misc/compat5x for the binary part of the driver. There may be some more ports like this. Rainer Hurling On 25.04.2009 19:25 (UTC+2), Wes Morgan wrote: > The various COMPAT_FREEBSDn options are part of generic, but are they > needed for most users? Do they enable some structures or interfaces that > some userland programs still expect, or is it safe to disable them > assuming that I don't need to run binaries from older systems?