From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed Aug 1 12:17:28 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA419105A5A7 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2018 12:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 459BA715AE; Wed, 1 Aug 2018 12:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (124-169-199-167.dyn.iinet.net.au [124.169.199.167]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w71CHLlY027700 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Aug 2018 05:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 users? To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Konstantin Belousov Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mark Johnston References: <20180731214920.GA95743@raichu> <20180801075512.GR40119@kib.kiev.ua> <2308.1533123739@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <7cd5a918-8a43-5c99-27fc-c4d8dda599d3@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 20:17:15 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2308.1533123739@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:17:28 -0000 On 1/8/18 7:42 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <20180801075512.GR40119@kib.kiev.ua>, Konstantin Belousov writes: > >> Together, all three things allow to run pre-3.x binaries on the modern >> machines, including amd64. I think this is useful at least for 'waving >> the flag' about our ABI compatibility guarantees [...] > 2.2.9 was released 12 years ago, I dare say people can suffer running > 11.X for all their compatibility needs. > but then we can't say "I run a 1.1 jail in -current, and it builds the kernel in 36 seconds".  :-)