From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 23:22:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B42137B401; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FD343F3F; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:22:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h4F6MnEd008747 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 May 2003 09:22:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h4F6MnK7008741; Thu, 15 May 2003 09:22:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:22:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Robert Watson , "David O'Brien" , Wilko Bulte , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030515062249.GA7577@sunbay.com> References: <20030515014303.GA53992@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030515033930.GD20512@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030515033930.GD20512@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 06:22:58 -0000 --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--