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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:07:09 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <20010721120709.A98665@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010721205905.A19446@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:59:05PM %2B0200
References:  <200107211738.f6LHckO97874@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010721195231.A18836@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721111928.A97882@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721204314.A19196@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010721115412.A98367@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721205905.A19446@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:59:05PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > We would actually like to support these machines in 5.0.  *Especially*
> > > > since we'll have working SMP.  In light of that, do you still feel we
> > > > should remove Turbolaser support?
> > > 
> > > From the *floppy* yes. Not in a generic sense.
.. 
> Depends what TL you have. Some have a fd, some don't (like the AS8400 
> I 'have'). All of them have a CD drive. So axing the TL from the floppy
> is not an issue.

At the moment, we use the floppy install kernel as the bootable CD kernel
also.  So we don't have the granularity of removing support for something
from just one or the other.  I am working with JKH on growing that
support however.


> I know, but I would even support dropping the Turbochannel boxes altogether.

I actually was going to draft a letter to freebsd-alpha to test the
waters on that today. :-)
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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