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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing: bktr(4) Brooktree Video Capture card
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Warner Losh wrote this message on Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 17:46 -0700:
> I think that the time has come to remove bktr(4) from the tree. This is for
> PCI-only hardware that can't do better than SD capture. For its time
> (~2000) it was a cool card. However, it's no longer relevant to FreeBSD and
> is completely unused as far as I can tell. The bread crumbs in my searches
> end around 2006 in the NYCBUG dmesg database.
> 
> Comments?

Please do, I was thinking of proposing this a year or two ago myself..

and I do remember the fun of R and B channel swaps making people look
like smurfs!  The fun times...

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