Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:03:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd Message-ID: <199506190133.LAA19200@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950618121537.4912B-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 18, 95 12:17:07 pm
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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Michael Smith wrote:
> > > 2.0R binaries will not work with 2.0.5R kernel.
> >
> > This is misleading. In the context of the original question ("can I
> > run a 2.0.5 kernel on top of a 2.0R system"), it's correct, as much
> > changed between 2.0 and 2.0.5, but one certainly _can_ run 2.0 binaries
> > under 2.0.5 (hence the compat20 package).
>
> As long as you don't mind a system utils dumping core. As an example,
> swapinfo from a 4-12 snapshot will core dump on a 2.0.5R system.
And what I wrote was misleading as well 8) To run a 2.0.5 kernel you
want 2.0.5 system binaries to work with it, but most of the user-land
programs that work under 2.0 work under 2.0.5.
> Tom
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