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authorjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2009-06-26 17:50:52 +0000
committerjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2009-06-26 17:50:52 +0000
commit5a005d19741cce2b5c9770e31df90cb94fddbf3f (patch)
treeb86060eb1995ac56d8e174ad2ecf7b52085234b5
parent1ce12d013ec97b0d886a7ad872ae48b47c136337 (diff)
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Note that as a result of the SYSV IPC changes, COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] now
require COMPAT_FREEBSD7. Also, explicitly note in NOTES that any version of COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> effectively requires for newer binaries (i.e. COMPAT_FREEBSD<n+1>, etc.). While this has been true in practice previously, it used to compile ok before the commit earlier this week. Discussed with: peter Approved by: re (kensmith)
-rw-r--r--UPDATING6
-rw-r--r--sys/conf/NOTES3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 2b040bc..a1ed309 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run
ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
+20090624:
+ The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have
+ been changed. As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] kernel
+ options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7. Bump __FreeBSD_version
+ to 800100.
+
20090622:
Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables
were moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be
diff --git a/sys/conf/NOTES b/sys/conf/NOTES
index dfc1869..e191a23 100644
--- a/sys/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/conf/NOTES
@@ -301,6 +301,9 @@ options COMPAT_43
# Old tty interface.
options COMPAT_43TTY
+# Note that as a general rule, COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> depends on
+# COMPAT_FREEBSD<n+1>, COMPAT_FREEBSD<n+2>, etc.
+
# Enable FreeBSD4 compatibility syscalls
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4
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