From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 17:22:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452F837B401; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6296143F3F; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6M0Maju023425; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6M0MZfE023424; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:22:35 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wilko Bulte Message-ID: <20030722002235.GA23390@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: Bernd Walter cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA [Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.alpha src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC NOTES] X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:22:53 -0000 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:04:19AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > without CDs or bandwidth. We do not do floppies for sparc64 and ia64, > > and I would hope/expect that we don't do them for amd64. I think it's > > time to cut them out of Alpha. > > Absolutely. But everytime we planned on doing that there was uproar. There has never been an uproar in "modern times" about removing floppy install support for Alpha. The only uproar the last time this came up (during the 5.1 release cycle), the nay sayers did not read carefully and thought x86 was included in the discussion. Sorry, there is RU who wants to keep them for "fun" it seems. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)