Re: COMPAT_IBCS2 on Vax

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2017-08-02 14:44, Maxime Villard wrote:
> 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...

I would vote for renaming. iBCS2 is something that is totally cryptic to 
me. SVR3 is something I would expect most people to understand what it is.
But I suspect that also means renaming it for the x86 folks, and I 
wonder how easy it might be to get them onboard.

  Johnny

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