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List:       netbsd-current-users
Subject:    Re: backporting USER_LDT to NetBSD-8
From:       maya () NetBSD ! org
Date:       2019-11-14 21:07:00
Message-ID: 20191114210700.GA15732 () homeworld ! netbsd ! org
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 09:05:05PM +0000, Dave Tyson wrote:
> I've been playing with wine64 under NetBSD 8.1_STABLE and it works 
> surprisingly well with a couple of windows applications I need to run. Of 
> course NetBSD-8 doesn't have support for USER_LDT baked in and so I have been 
> testing under a NetBSD current kernel. 
> 
> How much work would be involved in back-porting it to NetBSD-8?
> 
> I know NetBSD-9 might be a better option, but in my experience kde doesn't 
> work well with it :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> 

I don't recommend doing it. maxv has been doing a lot of x86 changes,
and a lot of the related code is changed.

I made sure meta-pkgs/kde4 builds on netbsd-current (pretty close to
netbsd-9), let me know if there are more issues with it.
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