HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:54:32PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mike Jakubik
> > <mike.jakubik at intertainservices.com> wrote:
> >> On 3/11/2010 9:50 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> As a result of importing 32-bit compatibility support for non-x86 64-bit
> >>> platforms, the kernel options COMPAT_IA32 has been renamed
> >>> COMPAT_FREEBSD32 in revision 205014, so all kernel configurations
> >>> including this option must be modified accordingly.
> >> 
> >> That sounds a bit confusing, compatibility with FreeBSD 3.2?
> >> 
> > I agree that the name COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is confusing, does it mean
> > compatiblity with FreeBSD 3.2, FreeBSD 32 or 32-bit ARCH's.
> > 
> > A better name would have been COMPAT_ARCH32 or COMPAT_32BIT_ARCH.
> 
> Seriously, this is being debated?  FreeBSD 3.2?  Is this a joke?
> I caught the humor in the first couple of replies, but you sound
> serious.  Wow.

Yes it is.  Where was it discussed first?  I do not see anything in my
freebsd-arch or freebsd-current archive; or any other FreeBSD list.

If there wasn't already a well established meaning to "COMPAT_FREEBSD"
(grep for it in /usr/src/sys/conf/), there probably wouldn't be any real
complaints.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)