hello. I think, but am not certain, that old NetBSD-0.8 binaries might use some of those 4.3 syscalls. I have a few binaries I'm still using from NetBSD-0.9A days which may use those syscalls as well. I know that I use COMPAT_43 in all of my kernel configs, and I have this vague recollection that when I forgot to include that in one build, those binaries broke. -thanks -Brian
On Sep 11, 1:19pm, Mouse wrote: } Subject: Re: Missing compat_43 stuff for netbsd32? } > I believe COMPAT_43 is not NetBSD 4.3 it's BSD 4.3. } } I think so too. Did NetBSD 4.3 ever exist? According to } /ftp/pub/NetBSD-archive on ftp.n.o, 4.0 and 4.0.1 were the only 4.x } versions. (Anonymous FTPing to ftp.n.o, I see /NetBSD-archive, but } it's empty - apparently the archive is in /pub/NetBSD-archive. I have } no idea why /NetBSD-archive is there.) } } > Did the 80386 even exist when Berkeley published BSD 4.3? } } According to Wikipedia, the 80386 was introduced in 1985 and 4.3 } was released in June 1986, so, yes, it did. But between .5 and 1.5 } years is not really long enough for it to be plausible that 4.3 ran on } the '386. I don't _think_ BSD ran on the '386 until the Jolitzes, but } I wasn't close to that effort, so I don't really know. } } > It's probably only useful for running ancient SunOS 4.x binaries, } > maybe Ultrix, Irix or OSF-1 depending on how closely they followed } > BSD 4.3. } } That's pretty much my own perspective on COMPAT_43. Probably should } have been called COMPAT_BSD43 or some such.... } } /~\ The ASCII Mouse } \ / Ribbon Campaign } X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org } / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B >-- End of excerpt from Mouse