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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 2017 16:50:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>,  Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support
Message-ID:  <201712040050.vB40o9Zr042851@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfq=8VoHDG-_KFGoUc9v5vDH8fTgXP9-tVsHXqgqaNihuQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > [snip snip]
> >
> > If someone wants to support it, and it doesn't make things in other
> > places harder ... why not do it!
> >
> > It at least keeps our APIs honest..
> >
> 
> If it actually works on real hardware, something we have conflicting
> reports on at the moment...

I have the hardware, it may take me 48 hours to get a machine set
up and running, but I shall at least do that much.  I know I have
plenty of 1.44MB drives, the 5.25 drives are gona be in my junk
storage and may need some work to rescue.

I have just gone and touched 2 P4 motherboards with floppy controllers,
and 2 complete machines that should be P4 or similiar AMD.

I think I can net boot my data recovery/forensics system, which 
has floppy and net booted I can run 10/11 or 12 i386 and amd on it.

So basically I should be able to get us some additional data points
in short order.

 
> And we seem to be short of the 'someone' that would be able to take up the
> banner of wanting to support it, having the skill to support it and
> demonstrating the time is there by fixing bugs...

That is true.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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