Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:09:05 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Divacky Roman" <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Candidates for inclusion in DEFAULTS Message-ID: <00bc01c60fbf$3d7a8e50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <005001c60f69$2dfff650$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20060102101157.GA63949@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
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> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:53:03AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > Just looking through the kernel code, and there are many strong warnings (in > > NOTES, GENERIC and various bits of code) that strongly advise *not* removing > > COMPAT_43 from the kernel config. > > > > In fact, doing so causes lots of things to break, especially the > > Linuxulator. > > > > That said, would COMPAT_43 (and possibly COMPAT_FREEBSD4 and > > COMPAT_FREEBSD5) be good candidates to put in DEFAULTS -- at least on i386? > > I have patch in queue which removes dependancy of linuxator on COMPAT_43 > (hysteria.sk/~neologism/linux43.patch) - its tested on amd64/i386 but havent > tried alpha (not even building it - anyone willing to test this?) > > and I plan to work to split COMPAT_43 into whats necessary for tty stuff and > the rest. after this we can remove COMPAT_43 from even GENERIC imho. That's great news! > I dont think that moving in the direction you suggest is correct. Agreed. In the context of your work, my suggestion is definitely a step in the wrong direction. -- Matt Emmerton
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