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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2018 21:19:55 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r330601 - head/sys/i386/ibcs2
Message-ID:  <20180307211955.GA63140@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <ca783198-68d0-154d-a806-5e7e3da853d1@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201803071444.w27EiWBV053244@repo.freebsd.org> <ca783198-68d0-154d-a806-5e7e3da853d1@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:20:14PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> FWIW ...
>=20
> ibcs2 is candidate for future removal.

It is probably time again to see if actual users exist.  ibcs2 has wasted
a few hours of my time over the last few months so keeping it does have
a non-zero cost.

> We tried to get some vendor interest in it but we failed and given this=
=20
> is very i386-specific it is probably not worth spending huge efforts on i=
t.
>=20
> cloudabi seems to be, for all purposes, a better conceptual replacement.

This comment doesn't make much sense. iBCS is the Intel Binary
Compatibility Standard, an obsolete ABI for i386 Unixes such as Xenix,
SCO, and UnixWare.  Cloudabi is, in a sense, taking Capsicum to its
logical extreme and totally unrelated.

-- Brooks

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