Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:55:36 -0600 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211125536.L760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19991210180948.7359C1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:09:48AM %2B0800 References: <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> <19991210180948.7359C1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 2:09:48 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >>>> In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs >>>> i386 architecture. >>> >>> Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a >>> period of shakeout time would be called for. I think that time should >>> be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then retired in >>> 4.1. >> >> The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long >> time. 4.0-REL is still some time away, so if you are quick you can >> still give it a good shakeout and have any bugs you find fixed before >> 4.0-RELEASE. > > Also, I'd like to reiterate something again.. Not running as fast as > possible is *not* a showstopper. If a device runs in generic PIO or WDMA > mode instead of udma mode, it's *not* the end of the earth. People in that > scenario won't be stranded. I think a 90% performance hit is a bug in most people's books. From what I've seen, that's a conservative estimate. > What is a killer is if a large number of people on popular hardware > can't even boot, *at all*, in no, way, shape or form. Only that. > The only way to find that out for sure before 4.0 is to push the > issue *now*. Agreed. I'm not saying "don't make it the default", I'm saying "leave an escape path". Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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