COMPAT_43 users?

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 4:25 PM Mark Johnston <markj at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 04:15:09AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 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...
>
> It's not required for Linux emulation anymore.
>

Then we can fix the comments...

Warner

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at 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?
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> > >> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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