On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ben Harris wrote:

: The problem is that some of the structures passed between the kernel and
: user space (e.g. struct wscons_keymap) are affected by changing the
: structure padding rules.  This means that if NetBSD/arm32 is going to move
: to the standard ARM padding rules, there'll need to be a compatibility
: layer to allow old binaries to run.  Anyone feel like implementing it?

You'll note that precisely this kind of thing had to be created for m68k
a.out to ELF transition:  COMPAT_AOUT_M68K.

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