svn commit: r226343 - head/sys/vm

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:07 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> That's really besides the point. ABI changes are made deliberately
>> and ABIs must be well-documented for anyone to adhere to it. You
>> can't post hoc wave your hand and say that at some unspecified time
>> in the past the ABI changed: at what precise time does "supported
>> by hardware mean" and how does that tie to a major FreeBSD version?
>> 
>> Point in case: the JDK 1.4.x still works on FreeBSD 9.x (i386), so
>> the ABI really hasn't changed at all in that respect.
> 
> I think if you booted a FreeBSD 9.x i386 PAE kernel you'd find that the
> jdk did not work.  That will be true for any i386 PAE kernel back to
> when PG_NX support was introduced.

That's bad.

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Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net