From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 10:43:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1B916A4CE; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5552743D46; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:43:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from samsco.org (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.0.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5QAkVjI054299; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:46:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <40DD5324.10507@samsco.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:42:44 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040304 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <34301.1088242340@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040626100116.GK7457@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040626100116.GK7457@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:48:36 +0000 cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:43:23 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 26 June 2004 at 11:32:20 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>The ibcs2 and svr4 compatibility code has outlived their useful lives, >>mainly because their target platforms are practically extinct. >> >>They will be eliminated from -current in the coming week, unless very >>compelling reasons to the contrary are put on the table. >> >>The change consists of the elimination of the following directories >>and assorted changes to makefiles and sys/conf and various NOTES >>to record this fact: >> >> compat/svr4 >> dev/streams >> i386/ibcs2 >> i386/svr4 >> modules/ibcs2 >> modules/svr4 > > > Has this been approved of by the core team or any other official organ > of the project? > > Greg > -- It has been discussed and I've given my input on it. To summarize, there is little evidence that either of these subsystems has been maintained other than mechanically. The SVR4 support barely covers Solaris 2.6, and the ibcs2 support is basically irrelevant these days considering the fate of that platform. Neither of these are going away in 4.x, and they can always be brought out of the Attic later on if warranted. Scott