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Date:      Fri, 6 Apr 2007 06:06:20 +0100
From:      Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Do we need this junk?
Message-ID:  <3aaaa3a0704052206l60da06f6vaafa7ac3fd8479a8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070405135627.GA97163@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405135627.GA97163@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On 05/04/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:58:17AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
>
> Why did you ask on the wrong list (corrected in reply)?
>
> Kris
>
> P.S. Just because it says "ISA" does not mean that it is junk or a
> removal candidate.  However, some of the network drivers on your list
> (and others) are removal candidates in 7.0 as announced a few times
> over the past few years, because they have no maintainers and are
> Giant-locked, which is now starting to hold some things back.
>
>

Does this mean future of FreeBSD 7 and beyond will start to stop
working on small old machines that people like myself like to use for
freebsd?

Chris


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