From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 21 21:24:21 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14ED337B401; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D8F43F5B; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0M5OJ1e089548; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:24:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:24:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030121.222401.55834126.imp@bsdimp.com> To: scott_long@btc.adaptec.com Cc: bmilekic@unixdaemons.com, nate@root.org, bde@zeta.org.au, alfred@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha busdma_machdep.c src/sys/alpha/osf1 imgact_osf1.c osf1_misc.c src/sys/cam cam_periph.c cam_sim.c cam_xpt.c src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_ch.c scsi From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3E2DF620.2040700@btc.adaptec.com> References: <20030121203745.A74950@unixdaemons.com> <3E2DF620.2040700@btc.adaptec.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <3E2DF620.2040700@btc.adaptec.com> Scott Long writes: : I think that Nate's concern was *binary* compatibilty with 5.0, i.e. being : able to load 5.0 kld's on a 5.1 system. It's a very noble and worthy goal : to attempt, though at this point I don't know if it's possible. I doubt seriously if 5.0 kld's are going to work, in general, on 5.1. I suspect that this won't be the only ABI change, although I'm very willing to deal with it in my patches. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message