On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:07 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> That's really besides the point. ABI changes are made deliberately >> and ABIs must be well-documented for anyone to adhere to it. You >> can't post hoc wave your hand and say that at some unspecified time >> in the past the ABI changed: at what precise time does "supported >> by hardware mean" and how does that tie to a major FreeBSD version? >> >> Point in case: the JDK 1.4.x still works on FreeBSD 9.x (i386), so >> the ABI really hasn't changed at all in that respect. > > I think if you booted a FreeBSD 9.x i386 PAE kernel you'd find that the > jdk did not work. That will be true for any i386 PAE kernel back to > when PG_NX support was introduced.
That's bad. -- Marcel Moolenaar mar...@xcllnt.net _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
