Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 12:54:24 +0100 From: Alex Kozlov <ak@FreeBSD.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support Message-ID: <20171203115424.GA68886@ravenloft.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <imp@bsdimp.com> <CANCZdfrYdQTtjZJ_%2BjSVr25wjAZXd-%2B4atSaeT5ahfprbtXHWw@mail.gmail.com> <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:16:15PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > > I'm keen on getting that into the tree. I have a ufd device and a need to > > use it from time to time. If nothing else, I can be a reviewer of the code. > > Is ufd working for you? > It does work. My todo was to merge ufdformat into fdformat but as I said > they are different enough that I need to work out how best to merge them. > Having said that, now that there's discussion of removing fdc(4) maybe it's > best to simply use ufdformat separately from fdformat that when we have the > inclination to remove fdc(4), which may be very soon now -- it would be > much less messy. I'm open to either option. If you talk about https://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/ufdformat/ it's easier to just import it as ufdformat. The code above is very wip though. > Personally, I don't care much (well maybe just a little) if fdc(4) itself > is removed however I think we need some kind of support, which USB fd can > supply if or when fdc(4) is removed. Maybe we should deprecate in 12 and > remove in 13? As I understand, plan it to remove fdc(4) aka NEC765/i8272 controller device driver and userland utilites that depends on it, usb floppy uses umass UFI which will stay. -- Alex
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