Date: 03 Feb 2003 21:13:37 -0500
From: Nat Lanza <nlanza@premodern.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver("fla").
Message-ID: <1044324816.2300.0.camel@gunboat.premodern.org>
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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:06, Terry Lambert wrote: > But if that's the argument for removing it, then it's probably > time to remove the ability to use non-DMA IDE drives from the > ATA driver, and kill all the ethernet drivers that have alignment > requirements for their DMA engines, making m_pullup copies > necessary, and yanking all drivers that do destructive probes, > and getting rid of the F00F workaround, and yanking all support > for things hung off the floppy controller, etc. etc.. > > All that could be justified using exactly the same argument. It's great to hear you volunteering to maintain this driver, Terry. Thanks so much! --nat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messagehelp
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