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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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > 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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