Re: Removal of compat-FreeBSD

[Maxime Villard <max%M00nBSD.net@localhost>]

Apparently, compat-FreeBSD is needed by tw_cli users.

Therefore I think I will just disable it by default in the GENERIC kernels,
unless anyone disagrees.



Le 07/02/2015 12:19, Maxime Villard a écrit :
> Hi,
> I intend to remove the compat-FreeBSD support from the system.
> 
> It has a limited interest since no major proprietary software is developed on
> FreeBSD; if one were, it would certainly be available on Linux, and we have full
> compatibility support for that.
> 
> You will also notice, after reading the code a bit, that our FreeBSD layer is
> really poor: many syscalls are missing, the translation is not efficient, and
> the layer is only available on i386. Recent FreeBSD-10 binaries often crash.
> 
> Recently we found two enormous bugs so obvious and harmful that we should
> normally have received a bug report from a user somewhere. We didn't, which
> means that in 6 years nobody tested compat-FreeBSD - "nobody" being the
> developers and the users.
> 
> Clearly, we should not waste time and energy on something that simply does not
> work. compat-FreeBSD could give the impression NetBSD has a reliable way to
> execute FreeBSD binaries, which is far from being the case.
> 
> This is what motivates my proposal.
> 
> Ok?
>