On 2/26/2000 at 12:49, fb@enteract.com (Frederick Bruckman) wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, dark3lf wrote:
> 
> > NetBSD 1.5 isnt quite ready for the mac68k platform correct?  When it is,
> > will I have to completely reinstall all of the binary sets or just compile a
> > new kernel?
> 
> When NetBSD-1.5 is released, on all ports simultaneously, it will be
> fairly significant change from 1.4.x. So, yes, you would need to
> update all the binary sets.

Does that apply to all binaries or just the ones closely associated with the kernel like ps? I was under the impression that you could build a 1.4 kernel that was backward compatible with 1.3 binaries (except for special cases like system utilities). If I understand the kernel config options than GENERIC kernels are backward compatible all the way back to 0.9. Or do those programs still need to be relinked?