On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 12:19:36PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote: > Hi, > I intend to remove the compat-FreeBSD support from the system.
please don't, I'm using it. > > It has a limited interest since no major proprietary software is developed on > FreeBSD; if one were, it would certainly be available on Linux, and we have > full > compatibility support for that. > > You will also notice, after reading the code a bit, that our FreeBSD layer is > really poor: many syscalls are missing, the translation is not efficient, and > the layer is only available on i386. Recent FreeBSD-10 binaries often crash. > > Recently we found two enormous bugs so obvious and harmful that we should > normally have received a bug report from a user somewhere. We didn't, which > means that in 6 years nobody tested compat-FreeBSD - "nobody" being the > developers and the users. I use a freebsd binary daily, on a netbsd-6 host. -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
