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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
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On 2003-Jul-29 12:54:36 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:17:38AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> After that, it will be trivial to axe the floppy support for
>> Alpha too.
>> 
>I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy
>support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare.  If so,
>could any of you please review the attached patch?  (It makes
>Alpha similar to AMD64 regarding floppies, i.e., no floppies.)

I hope we're just talking about booting from floppy here.  There's
Ruslan's patch doesn't actually remove the floppy device and the
rest of the thread concentrates on "booting" but that magic word
is missing from the above (and it wasn't in the trimmed context).

Peter