From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Mon Oct 9 15:57:32 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF33E34251 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C835183403 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id C27C5E34250; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: arch@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20ECE3424E for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from tensor.andric.com (tensor.andric.com [87.251.56.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "tensor.andric.com", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CDB5833F9 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:57:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from coleburn.home.andric.com (coleburn.home.andric.com [192.168.0.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B1CB3BC2F; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:57:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Dimitry Andric Message-Id: <23C4A573-05A7-4D76-9179-19169ECAB570@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_CEF0678D-9534-4F60-B891-ED46724F408D"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: deorbiting /usr/lib/libstand.a, moving to sysboot Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:57:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" To: Warner Losh References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:57:32 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_CEF0678D-9534-4F60-B891-ED46724F408D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 9 Oct 2017, at 07:45, Warner Losh wrote: >=20 > I'd like to deorbit /usr/lib/stand.a and /usr/include/stand.h. These = are > really parts of the boot loader with an unstable API and shouldn't be > installed into the system. It's really a private library to the boot = loader. Though I completely agree with this, I am still interested in the historical reasons for separating out this library for general userland consumption. Were there any other parts of world that happened to use libstand? -Dimitry --Apple-Mail=_CEF0678D-9534-4F60-B891-ED46724F408D Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.2 iF0EARECAB0WIQR6tGLSzjX8bUI5T82wXqMKLiCWowUCWducVgAKCRCwXqMKLiCW ox2pAJ9Iedi/kIROJzc1jKxcOY5VVBOz8wCg+VUaJv4QR/rec1fJciep8WUNSpQ= =Iysb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_CEF0678D-9534-4F60-B891-ED46724F408D--