removing SVR4 binary compatibilty layer
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Feb 15 21:02:32 UTC 2017
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org wrote
> on Tue Feb 14 18:32:40 UTC 2017 :
>
>> After some discussion on svn mailing list [1], there is intention
>> to remove SVR4 binary compatibilty layer from FreeBSD head, meaning
>> that FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would
>> be shipped without it. There is no intention of merge of the removal.
>> The stable@ mailing list added for wider audience.
>
> Can we presume no invalidation of the TARGET_ARCH=powerpc ABI?
> It is SVR4 based as I remember (unlike TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64 ).
This is just the SVR4 image activation. The ABI stuff that you are
talking about is different. It won't affect that.
Warner
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