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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:02:30 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: removing SVR4 binary compatibilty layer
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote:
> Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org wrote
> on Tue Feb 14 18:32:40 UTC 2017 :
>
>>   After some discussion on svn mailing list [1], there is intention
>> to remove SVR4 binary compatibilty layer from FreeBSD head, meaning
>> that FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would
>> be shipped without it. There is no intention of merge of the removal.
>> The stable@ mailing list added for wider audience.
>
> Can we presume no invalidation of the TARGET_ARCH=powerpc ABI?
> It is SVR4 based as I remember (unlike TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64 ).

This is just the SVR4 image activation. The ABI stuff that you are
talking about is different. It won't affect that.

Warner



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