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Non-free drivers

Non-free drivers

Posted Jan 28, 2011 9:43 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786)
In reply to: Non-free drivers by BenHutchings
Parent article: The real BKL end game

Of course FreeBSD does have a stable syscall ABI. It's not uncommon to run FreeBSD 6 jails on FreeBSD 8 kernel, for example. The only exception here is KVM, which means several administrative tools, such as ipcs(1) or netstat(1), need to match the kernel version.


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