Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:32:32 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Loader: OFW network booting support Message-ID: <100f0f1e-1f43-903e-bf8f-7a54925d53cc@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrL4SKC0ADWCFpzuVc2EpRxnxz0c_Ykb2wGLXNKEtM_Rw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfr3b2_1WnMtxrK%2B6Sm-Z3GE2ifGK5sGQWAiBhhPgkNAvA@mail.gmail.com> <Y3Lro/8ae6FfE2WH@FreeBSD.org> <CANCZdfrL4SKC0ADWCFpzuVc2EpRxnxz0c_Ykb2wGLXNKEtM_Rw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/15/22 12:04, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 6:30 PM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:34:25AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> I'd like to drop support for OFW network booting.
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> Otherwise, I'm going to save myself some time and this feature will be no
> more. I'm not going to speculatively waste time for something nobody can
> even be bothered to demonstrate still works :) Harsh, yes, I know, but
> better to be up-front about it and quietly break it which I'm pretty sure
> is what will happen if I don't test the new code.
>
> Warner
>
I can only agree. The userbase that would even care about network
boot from an Apple PowerMac G5 has to be counted on one hand. The one
thing we can never reproduce is "time". Don't waste it.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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