Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:39:45 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another HEADSUP [peter@wemm.org: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.] Message-ID: <20021029103945.N89245@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20021029103712.GA4446@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:37:12AM -0800 References: <20021027121440.I89245@locore.ca> <20021029103712.GA4446@dragon.nuxi.com>
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Apparently, On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:37:12AM -0800, David O'Brien said words to the effect of; > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > I intend to use this opportunity to make some sparc-specific ABI changes > > that will be tied to COMPAT_FREEBSD4. > > Considering that there has never been a FreeBSD/sparc64 4.x release, I > don't understand the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 need. Can you explain it by chance? Its purely transitional. Something is required to be able to do a source upgrade past the change and COMPAT_FREEBSD4 works. The difference is we can nuke any sparc64 specific compat stuff at some point in the future because its never seen a release. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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