i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

[Kostik Belousov]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 03:29:51PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kostik Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com>
> >>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=233316+0+archive/2008/freebsd-amd64/20081214.freebsd-amd64
> >>
> >>The latest version I can find is:
> >>http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/amd64_ldt-pre.4.patch
> >
> >Anyone info appreciated.
> >The patches were committed to HEAD. mplayer/win32 codec's were tested,
> >it was one of the goal of the patch to have these codec's working on amd64.
> >
> >No MFC to 7.x is planned.
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation Kostik. Do you believe there is any reason to
> stop that patch working on 7.X if manually applied? Is the patch above the
> final version that went into HEAD?

No and no, but I think that back-porting is not that trivial.
Upgrade is probably easier then backport.
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