Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:04:26PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote:
 > > Revert this. Compat on amd64 must be available all the way back to
 > > 0.9, same as i386.
 > > 
 > > Also, please stop unilaterally breaking the world.
 > 
 > You are kidding, right? Everything below COMPAT_15 has *never* been
 > enabled.  This change does not break anything, since nothing was
 > enabled in the first.

No, I am not kidding. It is there in GENERIC so it can be enabled for
people who want to run very old i386 binaries.

 > "Compat on amd64 must be available"
 > 
 > What authority do you have to say that? It has never been this way.

Providing compat has been policy for 25+ years.

Since you bring up the notion of authority... what authority do you
think you have to make declarations about what will and won't be
removed?

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost