Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:22:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf Message-ID: <20030515062249.GA7577@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515033930.GD20512@elvis.mu.org> References: <20030515014303.GA53992@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030514233000.14706M-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20030515033930.GD20512@elvis.mu.org>
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--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:39:30PM -0700, Jon Mini wrote: > Robert Watson [rwatson@FreeBSD.org] wrote : > > I think they'll be needed for i386 for a while yet, but when it comes to > > the newer 64-bit platforms, I tend to agree. I don't even know if you = can > > buy a sparc64 box with a floppy drive at this point... It's hard for > > me to imagine anyone shipping an ia64 or amd64 machine with a floppy > > disk drive but without a bootable CDROM... >=20 > The last time I used a boot floppy was over a year ago when I had > made some changes to the boot code and needed to make sure it still > worked for floppies. >=20 > I can see the argument for supporting floppies on i386, but future > platforms don't require it. I think that these days it is harder > to find a floppy than a blank CDR, but then maybe that's because I > have an Apple laptop. >=20 Not everyone has a CD-R/RW burner, you know that? I'm more in a mood to remove the support for modern drivers from BOOTMFS and driver floppies, assuming that if one has a modern enough hardware she also have a CD-ROM drive. Killing functionality like this would just decrease the number of potential FreeBSD installations (not to say users). Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+wzI5Ukv4P6juNwoRAnVXAJ0Z/eClWTh1VP2NDrARE52cc7xM/gCeNeXh FBWReEOpdWmo2fARTMFHa+A= =zYHQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--
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