Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 19:46:45 -0400 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: ota@j.email.ne.jp, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time to retire PC Card (but not CardBus) Message-ID: <20190527194645.f1942efa17cbeb1646181dd7@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqWSR7XqyfEv3M=UTa%2BBoNeU7vbL=5yA2ZBiqs%2BxruOwQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqWSR7XqyfEv3M=UTa%2BBoNeU7vbL=5yA2ZBiqs%2BxruOwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I think I have a couple of PCMCIA cards and/or bus. How do I check? Thanks, Hiro On Thu, 23 May 2019 18:34:46 -0600 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Now that a number of 16-bit drivers have been retired, I think it's time to > retire 16-bit PC Card / PCMCIA cards. The 32-bit CardBus cards are still > alive and kicking, but the need for 16-bit PC Cards has passed. It's time > to retire it. > > I've floated this idea before, and there was broad support for it. I've > held off until after FCP 101 deprecation was playing out. We've not pushed > that into the tree. This is the logical next step. FreeBSD 12.x will be the > last release with 16-bit PC Card support. > > My plan is to add deprecation notices to the remaining PC Card drivers, > merge those back to FreeBSD 11 and 12. Once that's done, I plan on removing > the 16-bit support. I have a few minor bug fixes to that which I'll push in > before I retire it, and merge those fixes. > > My plan is to give about a month for the community to discuss this plan > before I add the warnings. If there's resistance, we'll go with more formal > data collection and deprecation. If there's none, I'll go ahead. > > This affects the following drivers: an, cmx, fdc, puc, uart, wi, bt3c, ata. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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