svn commit: r344970 - head

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 07:16:44PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> ...
> I think the changed wording implies that we no longer provide compatibity
> with unsupported branches.  I agree that we might in future decide to
> remove COMPAT_FREEBSDx for unsupported x but until then, I'd prefer
> wording along the lines of:
> 
> "A GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run
>  binaries from older branches.  Note that the ability to run binaries
>  from unsupported branches is not guaranteed."

I agree, this sounds much better: it acknowledges that some users might
want to run 4.x binaries, and while we cannot guarantee it, we'd still
try to provide/preserve this feature if we can.

./danfe