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From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
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Subject: device atpic to be deprecated?
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While searching the mailing lists recently on an unrelated subject, I happened across a message mentioning the intended removal of "device atpic" in 7.0.  So, I tried building a kernel without it on my RELENG_6 amd64 box (nVidia nForce 3 chipset) and discovered that it was unable to mount the root slice.

Naturally, I'm a little concerned about this.  :-)

Is the plan still in effect to abolish this device?

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Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"