HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32
Daniel Eischen
deischen at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 22 19:42:26 UTC 2010
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> P.S. I think that there's much traction to the idea of moving from
> COMPAT_FREEBSDx to some other variable called, for example,
> COMPAT_FREEBSD_BACK_TO=x, which will give compatibility for binaries
> as old as FreeBSD x.0, and have all the other magic handled behind the
> scenes. This would render the inconsistency with COMPAT_FREEBSDx part
> of the debate completely moot.
Doesn't matter. We're still use to COMPAT_FREEBSDx since
it's been here so long. So regardless if you rename them
to COMPAT_FREEBSD_BACK_TO=x, it is still potentially confusing.
COMPAT_ARCH32 and all other choices David mentions seem like
much better names - even if there wasn't any existing
COMPAT_FREEBSDx knobs.
My $0.02.
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DE
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