Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:18:29 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy detection on miata: solved. Message-ID: <20031204231828.GG1860@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20031204224309.E34462@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20031204181201.321f2cf8.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <XFMail.20031204144319.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20031204224309.E34462@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:43:09PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > 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... That's way better. Alphas usually have a single 1.44M floppy - some OEM systems have none. I doubt that anyone is using an alpha with an 1.2M or other size floppy of any kind and those still have the option to configure their own requirements. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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