Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:06:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: deorbiting /usr/lib/libstand.a, moving to sysboot Message-ID: <CANCZdfpZwCZLf7rK3%2BRqssHmeCG62hNWev5p5ZJ-HXUArTmB%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23C4A573-05A7-4D76-9179-19169ECAB570@FreeBSD.org> References: <CANCZdfrvD04cL3A1J3nKZ2uFNNkOrcVnMvobdoyXkRGx8VK8Vg@mail.gmail.com> <23C4A573-05A7-4D76-9179-19169ECAB570@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 9 Oct 2017, at 07:45, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > 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? > Nope. As far as I can tell, it's never been used in FreeBSD. Historically, it was use for the stand-alone programs used to bootstrap the system (eg to copy the miniroot file from tape to disk swap area for the install and disk formatting and partitioning). Warner
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