From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 4 10:34:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD94B37B426 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from grsu.by (grsu.by [194.158.202.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EA414418F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:31:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@grsu.by) Received: (qmail 52412 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2003 18:27:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grsu.by) (grog@195.50.13.213) by grsu.by with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 18:27:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3E3FF750.6030607@grsu.by> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:24:32 +0200 From: Yury Tarasievich User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: be, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver("fla"). References: <20030202222042.3444.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> <3E3EAF82.E0F19A11@mindspring.com> <20030203224802.GM98559@roark.gnf.org> <3E3EF613.DBA56F01@mindspring.com> <1044324816.2300.0.camel@gunboat.premodern.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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