Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 06:44:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 06:44:37 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:7945 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 06:44:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3D54EF69.5060709@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:48:09 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Matti Aarnio , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: klibc development release References: <200208090934.g799YVZe116824@d12relay01.de.ibm.com> <200208091754.g79HsJkN058572@d06relay02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <3D541018.4050004@zytor.com> <15700.4689.876752.886309@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3D541478.40808@zytor.com> <20020809222736.GJ32427@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20020810114003.A5459@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 23 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > >> How NetBSD handles the issue, I don't know. One interpretation >> of what you say is that when a new architecture is added to NetBSD, >> it will instantly inherit the entire historical set of syscalls, >> including the obsolete ones. > > netbsd puts all syscall code not needed by the current release under a > per-version ifdef. A new port starting at, say 1.4, will never have > this enabled (unless it has binary emulations that need parts of the > old syscalls) Sure, but that still means the *current* ABI is consistent between platforms. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/