Re: What is COMPAT_FREEBSD in kernel config?

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

> COMPAT_FREEBSD, last I tried, had just enough compatibility to allow
> the running of very old (freebsd 4 and earlier) statically-linked
> freebsd binaries on i386 - its primary use case, as I recall, was to
> run the FreeBSD version of tw_cli for old 3ware cards.
        
> It's likely not very useful for modern freebsd binaries, unless
> someone updates it.
        
> +j

I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up.  But I was curious.

There is also the disparity between FreeBSD and NetBSD /dev .  I wouldn't want 
to attempt chroot from one to the other.

NetBSD /dev , this applies to OpenBSD too, is like what FreeBSD and Linux /dev 
used to be years back: preconfigured device nodee as opposed to dynamic.

Tom