Re: Freeze with 10.0 and VirtualBox {4.1.4|4.1.6|4.1.51r38464}

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:00:39 +0200
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? :)

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Andriy Gapon
Received on Tue Dec 06 2011 - 10:00:44 UTC

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