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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:21 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling =?utf-8?b?U23Dg8K4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/...
Message-ID:  <20100312164721.11643qp5y0o0kgsg@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Quoting Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> (from Fri, 12 Mar  
2010 08:19:00 -0600):

> This name was picked for the following reasons, after discussion  
> with several others: it is analogous to the existing COMPAT_LINUX32,  
> the

Datapoint:
  COMPAT_LINUX is native (64bit on 64bit arch, 32bit on 32bit arch) emulation
  COMPAT_LINUX32 is 32bit on 64bit arch emulation (useless on 32bit arch)
  There is no COMAPT_LINUXxyz with xyz being a specific linux version,
  the linux version to emulate is chosen by a sysctl (run time
  switch possible if no linux program is running).

As such the COMPAT_LINUXyy is conceptionally different from what we  
have with COMPAT_FREEBSDy (compatibility stuff for FreeBSD version y).

I think this is the base of the complains we see here.

Bye,
Alexander.

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