kernel config question

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 2 20:02:27 UTC 2019


Hi!

> FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r331659: Thu Mar 29 12:31:36 EDT 2018 amd64
> 
> 	to CURRENT (as of last midnight.
> 	Does this, in src/UPDATING:
> 
> 	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries
> 	needed to do an installworld, you must include the
> 	COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in your kernel. [...]

> 	 (It seems ... irrational ... one would need compatibility stuff
>  going back to FreeBSD 4 to rebuild/update FreeBSD 13.)

No, COMPAT_FREEBSD4 is not needed. Maybe COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is needed.

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