Erroneous COMPAT dependencies mentioned in NOTES

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 24 12:21:10 UTC 2006


On Friday 21 April 2006 04:55 pm, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> In /sys/amd64/conf/NOTES:
>
> # Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_IA32)
> options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
>
> In fact, COMPAT_43 is *not* required.  I'm currently running a
> 7.0-CURRENT kernel whose only COMPAT options are:
>
> options         COMPAT_IA32
> options         COMPAT_LINUX32
>
> Everything seems to be working fine, including Linux emulation.

I think this was very recently fixed to not require COMPAT_43.

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