Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:00:57 -0400 From: "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> To: "Matthias Apitz" <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Subject: Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL? Message-ID: <3c0b01820807050500k6604b4fsa4a5bbe09d05ca1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080705051605.GA1840@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20080704124227.GA10264@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20080704164015.514425fd@bhuda.mired.org> <3c0b01820807041712l39bdafd8sf3914c2b462023c6@mail.gmail.com> <20080705051605.GA1840@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=EDa Friday, July 04, 2008 a las 08:12:58PM -0400, Alexander Sack esc= ribi=F3: > >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Meyer >> <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> wrote: >> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 >> > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: >> >> I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my >> >> laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG= _7 is as >> >> well with HEAD... can I update the kernel to HEAD and let the userlan= d >> >> (and all my compiled ports) as 7.0-REL; I know that this is not the >> >> intention, but it would cost me a lot of work if I should compile as >> >> well ~200 ports.... >> > >> > When you say HEAD, do you mean the HEAD of 8-CURRENT or 7-STABLE? In >> > either case whether or not it works depends on whether something has >> > changed in the kernel that has a required userland change. >> > >> > On the other hand, if you mean 7-STABLE, then the ports should work >> > properly whether userland does or not. >> >> As a note, I just recently used HEAD on a 7_STABLE box to test changes >> recently to re for an updated PCIe revision NIC card on my Eee Box. >> It worked fine (both runtime and my NIC which I then patched my >> 7_STABLE tree which also worked, yea!). In a thread I started about >> cross platform building, it seems that historically FreeBSD has had a >> very stable ABI allowing multiple kernels to run underneath different >> versions of user land (this is certainly not the case for all *NIX >> variants). > > When I said HEAD, I mean HEAD in terms of CVS; and my situation is the > same: I want to check some problem with ath / hal on my eeePC 900, if it > is also in HEAD or only in RELENG_7 branch; Like I said, it should work. I did the EXACT same thing on Thursday to check the re driver on my Eee Box at work. -aps
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