Hi, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10/11/11 12:57 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Julian Elischer<jul...@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/11/11 12:36 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >> I will repeat myself here, but I ran what-was-to-become-Linux-v3.2 >> kernel on a 4 years old openwrt image and still had a functional >> system. Comparatively, I could not mix FreeBSD 7-STABLE userland and >> 8-STABLE kernel, The 8-STABLE kernel even changed the FS enough to >> make FreeBSD 7 unable to boot (even single user). > > actually due to libkvm there are actually a lot of programs that will work > over the > 7-8 boundary... a lot more than used to. between, say 2 and 3. > >> Let me emphasize again that it is only my personal opinion :-) > > Yep but its shared.. Unfortunately the problem is actually trickier than > first appears. > My own attempt at it can be seen with netgraph, where we instituted a text > based > config scheme, and in geom where PHK made an XML config scheme. > it would seem that any attempt to solves that problem somehow ends-up to hierarchically text-encode/decode the binary data, Linux /proc / /sys text file-based interface, the netgraph encoding (which I admit is really powerful once dominated), phk's XML config scheme, NetBSD & Apple property list :)
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