Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 00:17:31 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r330601 - head/sys/i386/ibcs2 Message-ID: <20180307221731.GH76926@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20180307211955.GA63140@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <201803071444.w27EiWBV053244@repo.freebsd.org> <ca783198-68d0-154d-a806-5e7e3da853d1@FreeBSD.org> <20180307211955.GA63140@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 09:19:55PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:20:14PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > FWIW ... > > > > ibcs2 is candidate for future removal. > > It is probably time again to see if actual users exist. ibcs2 has wasted > a few hours of my time over the last few months so keeping it does have > a non-zero cost. There are users of it, I periodically (say two or three times per year) get a report of something appearing broken in it. Note that iBCS2 is disconnected from the build in HEAD in probably in stable/11. It seems that removing it from svn might be a reasonable change after all. > > > We tried to get some vendor interest in it but we failed and given this It was not a 'vendor interest'. It was an unability to get the confirmation that some patch which was written using information from the SCO headers, does not violate the license. > > is very i386-specific it is probably not worth spending huge efforts on it. > > > > cloudabi seems to be, for all purposes, a better conceptual replacement. > > This comment doesn't make much sense. iBCS is the Intel Binary > Compatibility Standard, an obsolete ABI for i386 Unixes such as Xenix, > SCO, and UnixWare. Cloudabi is, in a sense, taking Capsicum to its > logical extreme and totally unrelated. > > -- Brooks
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