Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken_at_mthelicon.com> wrote: > Hi Current, > > Should the new Beta 3 have "options COMPAT_FREEBSD8" in the GENERIC > kernel config file? Or, does this happen when it goes RC? > What would you expect this option to cover ? I'd assume that no ABI[0] have been broken between FreeBSD 8 and FreeBSD 9. If ABI had been broken, the developer should have been responsible enough to create the proper compatibility shim and would already have introduced COMPAT_FREEBSD9. Of course, this leaves options for ABI being broken, compatibility shim introduced, but COMPAT_FREEBSD9 not introduced :) - Arnaud [0]: all the mentions of "ABI" exclude KVM. > Ta > Peg > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Thu Oct 13 2011 - 19:28:56 UTC
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