Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 17:14:02 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support Message-ID: <201712040114.vB41E2pI037967@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> of "Sun, 03 Dec 2017 18:01:46 -0700." <CANCZdfrY-v7rcF5_L%2B0QVfzKqMvWzfQOUqQNwZZvkDhh-DVG1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CANCZdfrY-v7rcF5_L+0QVfzKqMvWzfQOUqQNwZZvkDhh-DVG1Q@mail.gmail.c om> , Warner Losh writes: > --94eb2c11880a3c31df055f794380 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > I think I can net boot my data recovery/forensics system, which > > has floppy and net booted I can run 10/11 or 12 i386 and amd on it. > > > > So basically I should be able to get us some additional data points > > in short order. > > > True. We should add additional sanity / hacks to isa_dma as well. It may be > that some folks it works for, and some it fails for due to bugs in > contigmalloc that have gone undetected, or at least uncorrected. > > I have an older DELL system that I may bring up, if there's enough memory > in it to run -current. It's the least obnoxious of the old hardware that I > have knocking around. But it may be gated by finding working PATA disks > and/or that PATA <-> SD adapter I have somewhere... And of course my sandbox which has everything from 10 through 12, i386 and amd64 installed. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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