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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:06:37 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        nate@root.org
Cc:        sobomax@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, jkim@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fdc fdc.c
Message-ID:  <20060712.140637.1159135419.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <44B495BF.6080503@root.org>
References:  <200607112059.39655.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <44B48F0E.1050704@FreeBSD.org> <44B495BF.6080503@root.org>

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            Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
: You CAN'T get rid of the fdc, even if you want to.  It's an embedded 
: part of the Super I/O chips even if your machine has no floppy drive 
: (i.e. laptop).  So anything that slows down probing of it will slow down 
: your boot.
: 
: That's why it's great Jung-uk has done this work.

I still get floppies in the mail with stuff on them that people don't
want to trust to email...

Warner



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