Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:24:32 +0200
From: Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver("fla").
Message-ID: <3E3FF750.6030607@grsu.by>
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Nat Lanza wrote: >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. > > Is the code *broken*? If not, what is The Real Reason to axe it? I'd also add that in existing environment relevance of having FreeBSD support for any brand new hardware is not *that* higher than relevance of maintaining support for existing hardware. Perhaps not higher at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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