From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jun 30 12:21:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E5C37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CFD43E09 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01014; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g5UJL8520289; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:21:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15647.23076.260503.7357@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:21:08 -0400 (EDT) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current? In-Reply-To: <20020630191443.A36002@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020630191443.A36002@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > Given that Turbochannel support and support for the machines that have > TC buses has been left to rot AND the machines that have TC are > about as fast as 486s running current: Well, they're a good deal faster than multias, and some masoc^H^H^H^H people run -current on them ;) > how about removing TC support from -current and from -current only? Speed issues aside, I'd be in favor of axing the TC support, as its essentially dead code. We've waited something like three years for a TC owner to step up and port the esp SCSI driver to CAM... Is anybody out there running a TC diskless? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message