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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:21:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current?
Message-ID:  <15647.23076.260503.7357@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020630191443.A36002@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20020630191443.A36002@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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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


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