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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2019 21:02:26 +0100
From:      Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel config question
Message-ID:  <20190102200226.GQ84895@home.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <23597.4315.739853.729163@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <23597.4315.739853.729163@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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Hi!

> FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r331659: Thu Mar 29 12:31:36 EDT 2018 amd64
> 
> 	to CURRENT (as of last midnight.
> 	Does this, in src/UPDATING:
> 
> 	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries
> 	needed to do an installworld, you must include the
> 	COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in your kernel. [...]

> 	 (It seems ... irrational ... one would need compatibility stuff
>  going back to FreeBSD 4 to rebuild/update FreeBSD 13.)

No, COMPAT_FREEBSD4 is not needed. Maybe COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is needed.

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