Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:43:09 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppy detection on miata: solved. Message-ID: <20031204224309.E34462@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031204144319.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:43:19PM -0500 References: <20031204181201.321f2cf8.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <XFMail.20031204144319.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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As John Baldwin wrote: (Hardcoding 1.44 MB floppy drives in the driver source code.) > The patch looks simple enough. Basically, for arch's that duon't support > asking the BIOS about the floppy size, it just assumes a size of 1.44. > 4.x already does this apparently. I object. The driver must not make assumptions about things it doesn't know from a certain source. When I restructured the code in 5.x, I explicitly intented to get rid of the old hacks. I wouldn't object if /boot/device.hints on the alpha arch shipped with a default of hint.fd.0.flags="4" though, which basically has the same effect, but should at least give the careful reader a hint to read the man page... -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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