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From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com> wrot=
e:
> Hi Current,
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Should the new Beta 3 have "options COMPAT_FREEBSD8" in th=
e GENERIC
> kernel config file? Or, does this happen when it goes RC?
>
What would you expect this option to cover ?

I'd assume that no ABI[0] have been broken between FreeBSD 8 and
FreeBSD 9. If ABI had been broken, the developer should have been
responsible enough to create the proper compatibility shim and would
already have introduced COMPAT_FREEBSD9.

Of course, this leaves options for ABI being broken, compatibility
shim introduced, but COMPAT_FREEBSD9 not introduced :)

 - Arnaud

[0]: all the mentions of "ABI" exclude KVM.

> Ta
> Peg
>
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