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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>
In-Reply-To: <3E3EF613.DBA56F01@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030202222042.3444.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> <xzpbs1tblxb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3E3EAF82.E0F19A11@mindspring.com> <20030203224802.GM98559@roark.gnf.org>  <3E3EF613.DBA56F01@mindspring.com>

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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


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