From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VESA ISO Changes?
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:57:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511030857s749a3dafg678e49bfef5a7cab@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051103173930.3f2c47bf.20h@r-36.net>
> The kernels that are run are from April and the rest from the distrib-
> ution from Bell Labs. The reason could be that these kernels get in-
> compatible to the userland. If that happens, then I have to stop the
> generation of the ISO and we have to wait until the VESA integration
> is completed. I don't want to maintain patches to backport to April.
The binary interface to the kernel has not changed
since the 9P2000 support went in. Give us a little credit:
we don't just break binary compatibility on a whim.
The vesa code will be included with the new VM changes, which
should appear within a week or so.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-03 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-03 16:28 LiteStar numnums
2005-11-03 16:39 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-03 16:47 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-11-03 16:58 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-03 17:43 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-11-03 16:57 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-11-03 16:57 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-04 16:38 ` Tim Wiess
2005-11-03 16:43 ` [9fans] " LiteStar numnums
2005-11-04 2:32 [9fans] " YAMANASHI Takeshi
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