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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 16:49:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone? 
Message-ID:  <199910152049.QAA32690@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910151020210.18204-100000@current1.whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910150929540.33191-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910151020210.18204-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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<<On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> said:

> the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt
> it..

Probably not.  The hardware is just so transcendently evil that it's
unlikely it could be made to work reliably for more than one or two
people at a time.

At some point we need to stop supporting antique hardware since it
places a significant burden on the advancement of the rest of the
system.

-GAWollman



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