From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 3 15:36:31 2002 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 DD07137B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B6843E77; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:36:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (localhost.dlib.vt.edu [127.0.0.1]) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g93MaN0D090851 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:36:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: (from paul@localhost) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g93MaNQC090850; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:36:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:36:23 -0400 From: Paul Mather To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Message-ID: <20021003223623.GA90781@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-No-Archive: yes X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.7-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: => Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? I use the matcd driver in an old IBM ValuePoint 486DX2/66 running 4.7-PRERELEASE (see boot message at end) in active service. => Unless we can find some people who actually use these devices and => can test patches for these drivers we will have to drop support for => them. So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware? Note => that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't => be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices => forever. Speaking of "ancient devices," the machine using the matcd driver also has an obscure MV Jazz16 sound card (requiring extra trickery in my kernel config file to get it to probe and work). Will this also be supported? I don't run -current, but do track -stable (at least as well as I can on a machine that takes well over a day to do a "make buildworld"), if that helps any. Cheers, Paul. e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa >>>>> Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Sep 11 11:22:13 EDT 2002 root@mule.Chelsea-Ct.Org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MULE Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: i486 DX2 (486-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x435 Stepping = 5 Features=0x3 real memory = 100663296 (98304K bytes) avail memory = 94883840 (92660K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0301000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc030109c. Preloaded elf module "ntfs.ko" at 0xc03010ec. Preloaded elf module "vpo.ko" at 0xc0301188. netsmb_dev: loaded apm0: on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.1, connected at v1.1 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface isa0: on motherboard orm0: