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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:18:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, "" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver ("fla").
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > I realize that there are users of the DiskOnChip hardware out there
> > now, but I seriously don't expect there to be any users once we get
> > to FreeBSD 6.0 so I plant to remove the driver once the 5-stable
> > branch is laid down.
>
> Why?
>
> To what benefit?

I have to agree.  There are surely enough embedded systems out there using
it to warrent it staying around?

Jason

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