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Subject: Re: Kernel Application Binary Interface (kABI) support in FreeBSD
From: Conrad Meyer <cse.cem@gmail.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc: Venkat Duvvuru <venkatkumar.duvvuru@avagotech.com>, current@freebsd.org
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 7/17/15 9:02 PM, Venkat Duvvuru wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there kABI (Kabi-whitelist) equivalent feature in FreeBSD?
>
> well, yes and no.

Julian,

I believe Venkat is asking about a specific Linux package,
kabi-whitelists. It contains a list of ABIs considered "stable" in a
given RHEL release, and a checker that (?)validates programs to only
contain "stable" calls (guessing a little bit, but it has some sort of
checker anyway).

Thanks,
Conrad