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Date:      Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:00:39 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Freeze with 10.0 and VirtualBox {4.1.4|4.1.6|4.1.51r38464}
Message-ID:  <4EDDF5D7.3080508@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <a6cfa29246a23cf5177ed5458c1ddf4f@bluelife.at>
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on 06/12/2011 11:40 Bernhard Froehlich said the following:
> On 06.12.2011 10:08, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 06/12/2011 02:08 Alan Cox said the following:
>>> The right thing to do is to MFC vm_page_alloc_contig().  It shouldn't be that
>>> hard to merge it.
>>
>> Ah, but we want to be able to run virtualbox on the past releases too.
> 
> Which releases are we talking about here? VirtualBox was always deprecating
> older FreeBSD releases much faster than our Security EOL so if we focus on latest
> 8.x and >= 9.0 I think it should be okay.
> 
> We have already deprecated 7.x because of some other problems with the userland
> bits so we can forget about 7.x completely. What is left is 8.1 and 8.2 and both
> are EOL until mid 2012. So if is possible to get it merged in time for 8.3 and
> 9.1 (if needed) we should be fine.

So we would just say "screw you" to people who stick to e.g. 8.2 at the moment? :)

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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