From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 22:04:48 2011 Return-Path: <owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CF8106564A; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:04:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from mail.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [70.36.220.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527268FC13; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.23.7.198] (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.xcllnt.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p9DM4aZW029865 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <201110131707.14466.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:04:40 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <CC78FD86-8B14-49EE-A2AA-4B1EE186A4BB@xcllnt.net> References: <201110131620.p9DGKAM2022926@svn.freebsd.org> <20111013190943.GM1511@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <D6F3D623-23A5-4147-A439-746AD670DE14@xcllnt.net> <201110131707.14466.jhb@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r226343 - head/sys/vm X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" <svn-src-all.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all>, <mailto:svn-src-all-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all> List-Post: <mailto:svn-src-all@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:svn-src-all-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all>, <mailto:svn-src-all-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:04:48 -0000 On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:07 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> That's really besides the point. ABI changes are made deliberately >> and ABIs must be well-documented for anyone to adhere to it. You >> can't post hoc wave your hand and say that at some unspecified time >> in the past the ABI changed: at what precise time does "supported >> by hardware mean" and how does that tie to a major FreeBSD version? >> >> Point in case: the JDK 1.4.x still works on FreeBSD 9.x (i386), so >> the ABI really hasn't changed at all in that respect. > > I think if you booted a FreeBSD 9.x i386 PAE kernel you'd find that the > jdk did not work. That will be true for any i386 PAE kernel back to > when PG_NX support was introduced. That's bad. -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net