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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes.
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>,
	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 07-May-2002 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:37:16PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> I would therefore like to propose that we do something like
>> the following:
>> 
>>      Repocopy src/sys/sys/* to src/sys/include
>>      Repocopy src/sys/sys/* to src/sys/abi4
> 
> This is actually the FreeBSD 3.0 ABI, not an ABI introduced with 4.0.

I prefer a suggestion I think you had where the ABI isn't actually
linked to freebsd versions, but instead our current ABI is ABI 1 (or 0)
and the new ABI would be ABI 2 (or 1).

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