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Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Subject: Re: device atpic to be deprecated?
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On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:05 am, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> While searching the mailing lists recently on an unrelated subject, I
> happened across a message mentioning the intended removal of "device atpi=
c"
> 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.  :-)

Some more details would be handy. :)  Is your machine UP or SMP?

> Is the plan still in effect to abolish this device?

Yes, if it works for folks.

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