Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:41:49 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... Message-ID: <op.wjimnzxz34t2sn@me-pc> In-Reply-To: <k15po0$kj3$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <k15po0$kj3$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:37:04 -0500, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing (welcome, but puzzling) which surprised me was that my > vboxguest.ko did *not* need to be recompiled. How did the upgrade manage > that? FreeBSD has a stable ABI unlike Linux. A kernel module compiled for any 9.x release should work on any other 9.x release without needing to be recompiled.
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