Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:59:45 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABIs and 5.x branch: freeze kernel module ABI at 5.0 or 5.1? Message-ID: <2079.1038351585@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:50:26 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021126174032.88614J-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021126174032.88614J-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >As such, I think a reasonable strategy would be to avoid exactly that: >rather than making guarantees about the ABI for 5.0, simply assert that >the ABI for kernel drivers will not be frozen until 5.1, so vendors should >be aware that they may have to rebuild their driver. We've already >indicated that the 5.0 release will be for "early adopters"--I want to >avoid having things stand in the way of kicking the 5.x branch into shape >in as much as is possible. Any thoughts? It's very simple in my mind: we only freeze ABI's on -stable branches (and we actually even violated that for 4-stable I belive). Whenever we branch a new -stable from -current, that's when we freeze the ABI's for that branch. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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