Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:00:39 +0200
From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Freeze with 10.0 and VirtualBox {4.1.4|4.1.6|4.1.51r38464}
Message-ID: <4EDDF5D7.3080508@FreeBSD.org>
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on 06/12/2011 11:40 Bernhard Froehlich said the following: > On 06.12.2011 10:08, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 06/12/2011 02:08 Alan Cox said the following: >>> The right thing to do is to MFC vm_page_alloc_contig(). It shouldn't be that >>> hard to merge it. >> >> Ah, but we want to be able to run virtualbox on the past releases too. > > Which releases are we talking about here? VirtualBox was always deprecating > older FreeBSD releases much faster than our Security EOL so if we focus on latest > 8.x and >= 9.0 I think it should be okay. > > We have already deprecated 7.x because of some other problems with the userland > bits so we can forget about 7.x completely. What is left is 8.1 and 8.2 and both > are EOL until mid 2012. So if is possible to get it merged in time for 8.3 and > 9.1 (if needed) we should be fine. So we would just say "screw you" to people who stick to e.g. 8.2 at the moment? :) -- Andriy Gapon
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