From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 2 3:58: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF2137B409; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7CD43F43; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h12Bvu4Z058895; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:57:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:57:56 +0100 Message-ID: <58894.1044187076@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver ("fla"). MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa" To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver ("fla"). From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:57:56 +0100 Message-ID: <58894.1044187076@critter.freebsd.dk> This is _only_ about the driver for the DiskOnChip devices from M-Systems. This does not affect any other device. If you have never seen a /dev/fla0 mounted on your system, you don't need to read the rest. I realize that there are users of the DiskOnChip hardware out there now, but I seriously don't expect there to be any users once we get to FreeBSD 6.0 so I plant to remove the driver once the 5-stable branch is laid down. This means that the 5.x series of FreeBSD releases will be the last to have built in support for the Disk-On-Chip driver. The driver in the tree works with the M-systems devices I have to test with, but M-Systems have neither sent me the necessary software updates nor hardware samples of the latest generation of the DoC and I have received no emails from people who were stuck because of this. Combine this with the fact that the DoC is a CPU-poll technology where you busy-wait for the flash devices to do their thing, rather than get an interrupt when they are done, I think we can safely say that the DoC is well past its prime time. As far as I can tell, people use CompactFlash these days instead. Protests to: phk@freebsd.org Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message