Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:49:01 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <461552AD.80502@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704050617p4ca4e414oae9d2fee5d6b51d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050617p4ca4e414oae9d2fee5d6b51d4@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: >> [-stable removed since it's not relevant there] >> >> On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton >> <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? >> > >> >legacyfree1# cd dev/ >> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include >> ... >> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include >> ... >> >> Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed? >> > > Because it's junk that doesn't belong, and can't even be use, in a > modern operating system. For some perspective... > > Apple Mac Pro: > 8-way 3.0GHz Intel Xeon ( 24 GHz ) > 16GB System RAM > NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB > > Now for some contrast, the AHA-1542: > Supported Operating Systems: MS-DOS 3.x, 4.x, 5.x > Number of devices: Up to 7 devices under DOS 5.0 > Bus System Interface Type: ISA > Hard Disk Capacity: Up to 8 GBytes per disk > Floppy Drive Support: Supports two 5.25 in. floppy drives > Release Date: 1987 > Status: Discontinued > > CVS Log: > ############################### > Revision 1.33: Jan 2005 (2 years, 2 months ago) by imp > > Final attempt to make aha 1542A working. If not, oh well, I don't > have the card and no way to reproduce problems. We do this by > applying the workaround to firmware revsion 0. > ############################### > Revision 1.39: Feb 2007 (5 weeks, 6 days ago) by piso > > break newbus api: add a new argument of type driver_filter_t to > bus_setup_intr() > ############################### > > > # grep aha /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC > device aha # Adaptec 154x SCSI adapters > > > Are you fucking kidding me???!!!!! Stop being an elitist twit. Thanks. Scott
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