Re: Dropping support for old binaries

2015-06-13 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 08/06/2015 10:17, Brian Buhrow a écrit : hello. There is a proposal around to drop support for old NetBSD binaries in current ersions of NetBSD. For example, nuking COMPAT_NOMID, COMPAT_10, COMPAT_12, COMPAT_13 COMPAT_14, etc. from the the -current source tree. I'll let the

Re: Dropping support for old binaries

2015-06-10 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:37:07PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote: proposal on this list, but here's my response to that proposal: I suggest that you don't misrepresent the original proposal. The original proposal was about dropping the support from GENERIC, that is not exposing rotten code

Re: Dropping support for old binaries

2015-06-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello, Brian Buhrow buh...@nfbcal.org writes: hello. There is a proposal around to drop support for old NetBSD binaries in current ersions of NetBSD. For example, nuking COMPAT_NOMID, COMPAT_10, COMPAT_12, COMPAT_13 COMPAT_14, etc. from the the -current source tree. I'll let the

Re: Dropping support for old binaries

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:17:54AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: I'm done ranting, but I truly hope we don't decide that maintaining backward compatibility is not a priority. Such a decision would be a very sad one for me indeed! Strongly seconded. I can live with (say) sysctl bits