Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:49:49 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: jhell <jhell@dataix.net> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32 Message-ID: <e71790db1003231749n5edf2cd2ubd39b74445297c1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003231933460.47414@qvfongpu.qngnvk.ybpny> References: <20100312171758.GB31089@dragon.NUXI.org> <20100312.125032.270969355930630649.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100322185331.GA88847@dragon.NUXI.org> <20100322.130939.70320533309323962.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1003221538260.10584@sea.ntplx.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003231933460.47414@qvfongpu.qngnvk.ybpny>
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:42, deischen@ wrote: >> >> [ Some CC's stripped ] >> >> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> >>> P.S. =A0I think that there's much traction to the idea of moving from >>> COMPAT_FREEBSDx to some other variable called, for example, >>> COMPAT_FREEBSD_BACK_TO=3Dx, which will give compatibility for binaries >>> as old as FreeBSD x.0, and have all the other magic handled behind the >>> scenes. =A0This would render the inconsistency with COMPAT_FREEBSDx par= t >>> of the debate completely moot. >> >> Doesn't matter. =A0We're still use to COMPAT_FREEBSDx since >> it's been here so long. =A0So regardless if you rename them >> to COMPAT_FREEBSD_BACK_TO=3Dx, it is still potentially confusing. >> >> COMPAT_ARCH32 and all other choices David mentions seem like >> much better names - even if there wasn't any existing >> COMPAT_FREEBSDx knobs. >> >> My $0.02. >> >> > > > Ill say it again if I have to... COMPAT_ELF32 or possibly even ELF32_SUPP= ORT > seems to me as a very likely possibility. > > Maybe even: > SUPPORT_ELF32=3D =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Support for 32 Bit ELF Binaries > > This would add its own name structure that is expandabe later-in-future w= hen > 128 Bit systems come out ;) ELF may go away sometime, just like a.out went to the holly pastures. --=20 Not so young, but still crying out Full of anger full of doubt
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