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? >