HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Fri Mar 12 03:54:36 UTC 2010


On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mike Jakubik
> <mike.jakubik at intertainservices.com> wrote:
>> On 3/11/2010 9:50 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>> 
>>> As a result of importing 32-bit compatibility support for non-x86 64-bit
>>> platforms, the kernel options COMPAT_IA32 has been renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32
>>> in revision 205014, so all kernel configurations including this option must
>>> be modified accordingly.
>>> 
>> 
>> That sounds a bit confusing, compatibility with FreeBSD 3.2?
>> 
> I agree that the name COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is confusing, does it mean
> compatiblity with FreeBSD 3.2, FreeBSD 32 or 32-bit ARCH's.
> 
> A better name would have been COMPAT_ARCH32 or COMPAT_32BIT_ARCH.
> 

Seriously, this is being debated?  FreeBSD 3.2?  Is this a joke?  I caught the humor in the first couple of replies, but you sound serious.  Wow.

Scott



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