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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--9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaoFd7AAoJEKzQXbSebgfAxBMH/j3s3MtNnRR4mJBGdy8VlrYv mR4kZ9ThLTzteCW0aRKJn2mOK3gZZemZbZ3B7q0Va2Srn+qDN1Gw3TUjm6wsqSdq WoeqGJnK/D35YbekgBYAUnv4fIoxXj+nw/19Nm0QMN0GdwJvUCE0hE8nK7R4EiOo 07AFggPmGU/3aLNeftRPsgy9pGPmASAVZV00YIh3vOtjV3rKItUhYFqJMcitQ/m8 fLn0XdBu3m45oA99tzH1PIB8XUH6HXNaXLH4MYDGE0uHk9dRaug3GspUKomOo/OI MQ/BUOED9EdCjios9eI7c5U1P6LwNZ2NlecNI3Wb8GxT4LZRziqmvoNw8SF84oM= =CPeF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--
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