Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 14:26:43 +0000 (UTC) From: "Alexander Ziaee" <concussious@runbox.com> To: "freebsd-arch" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Disabling COMPAT_FREEBSD4/5/6/7/9 in default kernel configurations Message-ID: <E1s5ngR-0007kc-DC@rmmprod07.runbox>
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Hello, <henrichhartzer_at_tuta.io> wrote: >> disabling COMPAT_FREEBSD4/5/6/7/9 (in GENERIC) Please, this is the heart and soul of freebsd. Those lines in GENERIC are a symbol of hope (yes I am absolutely serious) t= hat human beings are still grounded enough to plan and make sacrifices and = to think thoughtfully. It represents an uninterrupted chain of compatibilit= y since before I was even born. Breaking compat is clearly against the spirit of the original rules. Please= not now, please, please, not a tentative date of FreeBSD 127-RELEASE. The alternative of rewriting them to be loadable is clearly acceptable to e= veryone, but no one is proposing doing that and we have literal grandmaster= s that designed and built the blocks of the internet calling it "hard". So = this is quite a horrifying conversation for no actionable proposal. The societal consequences to reducing the credibility of the Principle of L= east Astonishment underpinning the critical infrastructure of all humans ev= erywhere is incalculable. Small handfulls of very inteligent and slightly a= utistic children everywhere in the world will become distressed, seriously. People come here because of stability and consistency. We need to keep attr= acting them on that basis. Humanity, seriously, needs us to keep attracting= them on that basis. Please dont turn off compat in GENERIC until someone rewrites it to be a lo= adable module, or reveals that it's critically broken somehow. This is real= ly a very serious issue to the heart and soul of this project, and honestly= this made me cry. Respectfully, Alex=
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