abi

I heard from multiple sources (both about FBSD and OBSD) that if I want develop for FBSD (both base and userland) I need to do it in CURRENT. Fist question round: is this true? if so, Why? Second question round: how do you go about? RELEASE on metal and CURRENT on VM's/Jails or CURRENT directly...

OS: FreeBSD 12.4, ABI amd64. what I am trying to do is to enable multi-architecture pkg repos, i.e. to have both amd64 and i386. what I did is I made a conf file under /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/*.conf and set the url to FreeBSD:12:i386. tried to run pkg update, it fetched all required i386...

Hello, background: I'm Assembly programmer for both Intel's x86 and AMD64 architectures, been programming for these architecture for more than 10 years in non-UNIX-like operating systems; to be more precise: Windows NT based operating systems. I was able to find the numeric kernel services...

Hello everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 12.1-p2 on an old Dell XPS M1330 laptop. The video card is an old nVidia GeForce 8400M GS, and everything use to work fine with driver "nvidia-driver-304-304.137_6". A few days ago I installed the latest system updates, and now X.org stopped working. By...

Can somebody guide me in the right direction and point out the ABI Specs used in FreeBSD? Is it the same as System V ABI (https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/402129/mpx-linux64-abi.pdf)? Thank you.