Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 04:15:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 users? Message-ID: <CANCZdfpLkLiCzT6whinv9UEyDpXTbLeyV_HdPnQ9ENbr4QXZCg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cfeec941-ddfc-e541-c3a4-6d8ebfdfed89@freebsd.org> References: <20180731214920.GA95743@raichu> <cfeec941-ddfc-e541-c3a4-6d8ebfdfed89@freebsd.org>
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Comments say it's needed for Linux emulation and for running FreeBSD 1, 2, or 3 binaries. It's still compiled for PowerPC kernels. Despite it's name, it looks like removing it would be somewhat complicated... Warner On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 1/8/18 5:49 am, Mark Johnston wrote: > >> The COMPAT_43 kernel option, which enables syscall support for 4.3BSD >> binaries, hasn't been enabled in the standard kernel configs for well >> over a decade, and doesn't appear to be a dependency of any other kernel >> features. Nonetheless, the kernel contains quite a bit of code to >> support this option. Does anyone use it in modern versions of FreeBSD >> or have any arguments for keeping it? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> >> It is useful for really ancient jails I believe. The person I would trust > on this is jhb. (CC'd) > > I occasionally like to run a freebsd-1.1 jail.. but While I enable it I am > not sure if I need it. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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