Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:56:30 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fdc fdc.c Message-ID: <44B48F0E.1050704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200607112059.39655.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <200607120049.k6C0nlHN034350@repoman.freebsd.org> <200607112059.39655.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:49 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >> jkim 2006-07-12 00:49:47 UTC >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> sys/dev/fdc fdc.c >> Log: >> Assume floppy disk is not inserted when we have exhausted >> retries. This significantly reduces booting time when there is >> broken floppy disk drive, controller, cable, BIOS, etc. >> When the floppy controller interface is correctly implemented, >> disk change signal (DSKCHG) is reflected in the Digital Input >> Register (DIR) at 0x3f7. However, there are many cases that the >> signal is unusable. Moreover, some BIOS does not reserve the port >> at all. In those cases, the register may not function. >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.311 +3 -0 src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc.c > > Linux device driver seems to have 'broken_dcl' boot time option to > work around this issue, i.e., assuming disk change for every floppy > disk access, which is quite ugly, IMHO. Does anybody have better > idea to fix these cases? Not really relevant, but who cares about floppy in 2006 when one can buy 256MB USB flash for the price of the pack of floppies? ;-) No offense intended, just curious. -Maxim
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