AROS ABI
Topic: Current state of available AROS ABI's
Date: 2022-june-06
| ABI | Status | Maintainer | Targets | Header text | Header text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABIv0 | Obsolete/Abandoned | AROS Development Team | Example | Example | Example |
| ABIv1 | Unstable development branch | AROS development Team | Example | Example | Example |
| alt_ABIv0 | Stable release branch | deadwood | Example | Example | Example |
| ABIv11 | Stable release branch | deadwood | Example | Example | Example |
| AxRT | Unstable experimental branch | deadwood | Example | Example | Example |
ABIv0
Current status: Abandoned
Last release : 2019-05-20 (very much out of sync with ABIv1)
Was the original development branch, later accompanied/followed by ABIv1.
Both ABI's existed next to each other and where maintained for a longer period and while binary incompatible kept in (relative) sync for a while.
Later on ABIv1 introduced more and more additional features that weren't possible to integrate/maintain for ABIv0 therefore in the end this ABI was abandoned by the AROS Development Team.
ABIv1
Current status: In development (unstable releases)
Last release : present day
Was introduced to be(come) binary compatible with original m68k amiga system.
Introduced more and modern features, became binary compatible with original m68k Amiga OS and as such became the new standard development branch.
This branch is still actively developed till this day by the AROS Development Team.
Introduced (amongst many others) TLSF and SMP
alt_ABIv0
Current status: In development (stable releases)
Last release : 2022 may 30 (version 20180423-1)
Was introduced in order to succeed and be backwards compatible to the original (abandoned) ABIv0 branch while at the same time incorporating (new) features and improvements from the ABIv1 development branch.
The existence of this branch is important because all current existing AROS distributions are based on the (abandoned) ABIv0 due to the existing software base for this ABI.
The releases are based on ABIv1 development status dates and as such have no resemblance with the original ABIv0 release dates (yes, that is confusing).
Every alt_ABIv0 release has a newer code-base than ABIv0 ever had and will have.
Can be considered as a fork and successor of the original ABIv0.
ABIv11
Current status: In development (stable releases)
Last release : 2022 march 20 (version 20220318-1)
Was introduced as a stable alternative for the ABIv1 development branch and as such is (to a certain extend) compatible with the ABIv1 development branch.
Details about which parts are and aren't stable/compatible can be found here.
Releases are based on ABIv1 development branch (dates).
Can be considered as a fork of the current ABIv1 development branch.
AxRT
Current Status: In development (kinda stable releases)
Last Release : 2022-05-07 (AxRuntime v41.3)