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Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip
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From: Nat Lanza <nlanza@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


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