Re: [PATCH] README: updated Linux and FreeBSD kernels

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> ---
>  README |   13 ++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index baa6ab3..0cbb047 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org.
>  To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
>
> Linux version 2.0.36 or above
> -  FreeBSD 6.3 or later
> +  FreeBSD 8.0 or later
> [...]
>  FreeBSD info:
> -  Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD
> -  6.3 or 7.0, and FreeBSD 6.3 has additional patches available. See
> -  http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.
> +  Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD 8.0.
> +  See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.

Is there a reason why Wine won't work right on FreeBSD 7.0?
Winetest seems mostly ok.
http://test.winehq.org/data/f43f37d3613db57c732196f88e1225191cd62c30/index_B...


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[PATCH] README: updated Linux and FreeBSD kernels

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:44:31AM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > ---
> >  README |   13 ++++++-------
> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/README b/README
> > index baa6ab3..0cbb047 100644
> > --- a/README
> > +++ b/README
> > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org.
> >  To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
> >
> > Linux version 2.0.36 or above
> > -  FreeBSD 6.3 or later
> > +  FreeBSD 8.0 or later
> > [...]
> >  FreeBSD info:
> > -  Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD
> > -  6.3 or 7.0, and FreeBSD 6.3 has additional patches available. See
> > -  http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.
> > +  Wine will generally not work properly on versions before FreeBSD 8.0.
> > +  See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.
>
> Is there a reason why Wine won't work right on FreeBSD 7.0?
> Winetest seems mostly ok.
> http://test.winehq.org/data/f43f37d3613db57c732196f88e1225191cd62c30/index_B...

I followed the note on http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine who does not mention older
versions than 8.0.

I have no other information.

Ciuao, Marcus