Re: COMPAT_IBCS2 on Vax

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 02/08/2017 à 14:21, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
> On 02.08.2017 11:34, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I see that the Vax GENERIC kernel has COMPAT_IBCS2 enabled by default.
> > But what
> > exactly is it doing here? iBCS2 is a standard designed for x86 CPUs, and
> > it has
> > nothing to do with Vax.
> >
> > Is there something that I'm missing? If so, it would be good to
> > enlighten the
> > man page.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Maxime
>
> This looks like SVR3 compatibility, x86 variation of it is called IBCS2.

Yes, I guessed that when reading the entry in GENERIC; but shouldn't it be
renamed, or at least, made a little less confusing? In the man page for
example, we could say that iBCS2 stands for SVR3 on Vax, even if it is called
iBCS2...