From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 10:21:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 37C6E16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9B143D3F for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0CILMA7020517; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:21:22 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i0CILM8e020516; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:21:22 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:21:22 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Wes Peters Message-ID: <20040112182122.GD1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20040111202438.GA55331@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040112152239.GA1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200401120826.22052.wes@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UoPmpPX/dBe4BELn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401120826.22052.wes@softweyr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:21:27 -0000 --UoPmpPX/dBe4BELn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:26:22AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2004 07:22 am, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > > > > > I don't know the release build process, so I don't know how much > > > effort is neccessary to create such floppies, but the loader seems to > > > have all features needed to use such disks. > > > > It sounds like this is definatly a viable option. Now someone needs to > > see about hacking something like this into the release makefiles. >=20 > Note that I didn't say it would be a lot of work. ;^) >=20 > Do we have a volunteer showing up here? Definatly not me. I hate floppies (and they hate me). I was just trying to convince someone to follow what looks like a reasionably promising path to keeping floppy support and moving the pain of dealing with floppies from RE to the floppy users. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --UoPmpPX/dBe4BELn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAuWhXY6L6fI4GtQRAg96AKDXLkEqqbr2vXmU3sq1Tu8H39vvbQCeNE6e DF4nxCwngKQK3TKKXx5mClY= =yOdX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UoPmpPX/dBe4BELn--