port-amd64: Re: GENERIC kernel without COMPAT

Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel without COMPAT_NETBSD32 compilation failure
To: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: port-amd64
Date: 04/28/2004 16:01:43

> The problem is that an amd64 kernel without COMPAT_NETBSD32 cannot
> currently be compiled when other COMPAT_1x (x <= 6) are present.

This is deliberate. COMPAT_16 doesn't make sense for amd64
native code. It is only useful to express "allow NetBSD/i386-1.6
binaries to run".

I admit that a comment in GENERIC wouldn't do any harm:-)

best regards
Matthias