Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 21:26:26 +0300 From: Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?T=C4=B3l_Coosemans?= <tijl@freebsd.org> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux ports roadmap Message-ID: <CAC0jpUASCZPcCttDKzR2aDXJoBF66jcWdpqZ2e73%2B-8nxLZnFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190608193357.0c296399@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <20190608193357.0c296399@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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=D1=81=D0=B1, 8 =D0=B8=D1=8E=D0=BD. 2019 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 20:35, T=C4=B3l Coo= semans <tijl@freebsd.org>: > Hi, > > These are the current rough dates I have in mind for some major changes > to the Linux ports. Please comment if you see any problems. > > July 10 (after FreeBSD 11.3 release) > Make linux c7 ports the default. This is one month after today's major > update to the c7 ports and after 2019Q3 branching. It's also early in Q3 > so any problems can be fixed before 2019Q4 branching. > > On amd64 it's possible to install 32 bit c6 ports, mixed 32/64 bit > c6_64 ports (current default), or mixed 32/64 bit c7 ports. The 32 bit > c6 option only exists for users of x11/nvidia-driver* which did not > support 64 bit until recently. This 64 bit support required some kernel > changes that will be in FreeBSD 11.3 so after its release I'd like to > get rid of the 32 bit c6 option, i.e. c6 will become mixed 32/64 bit and > c6_64 and the special handling for it will go away. This makes c6 > similar to c7. > > December 31 > Remove CentOS 6 ports. There's no need to keep them if c7 works. We > may have c8 ports to deal with by this time as well. > no objection from me
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