Re: Status of revivesa

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> That means dropping in a 5.0 kernel (and leaving the 3.0 userland)
> and having things Just Work(*) for some testing period (ranging from
> days to weeks).  [...]  NetBSD has always supported this sort of
> "controlled upgrade path", [...]

It has not.  There was one version jump, I think between 1.x and 2.0,
which broke anything depending on executing out of the stack - the new
version imposed non-executable stack even on compatability executables.

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