From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 17 23:52:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF75B14D49; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from mail.scc.nl (i057.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.112.58]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09171; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:52:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA21935; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:52:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <37BA5847.4953D0C@scc.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:52:55 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alk@pobox.com Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation in 3.2 current References: <86aerq2p42.fsf@linum.cofc.edu> <37B9C7A1.926A64DC@scc.nl> <14265.64852.670979.281356@avalon.east> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anthony Kimball wrote: > > Quoth Marcel Moolenaar on Tue, 17 August: > : > : For starters, COMPAT_LINUX is obsoleted. Use the linux module. > : > > Does obsoleted mean desupported? In STABLE? Yes. COMPAT_LINUX disappeared 3 years ago. The reason that you can still use it is because it reappeared for the purpose of compiling LINT (IIRC). The fact that it still can be used to actually built a working kernel is *not* deliberate, but more a question of "luck". -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message