From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 01:20:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B2937B401; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17A143FBF; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h6M8Hc0U011379 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:17:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6M8Hcrh011374; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:17:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:17:38 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Scott Long , Peter Wemm Message-ID: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Bernd Walter cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:20:53 -0000 --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: [...] > This is a loosing fight. While there is still some value in having > floppies for x86, is there really any value in them for Alpha? My > understanding is that CD-ROMs have been standard on all Alphas for > the past 5-10 years. Netbooting is an easy alternative for those > without CDs or bandwidth. We do not do floppies for sparc64 and ia64, > and I would hope/expect that we don't do them for amd64. I think it's > time to cut them out of Alpha. >=20 I plan on working on removing floppy support for AMD64 now. Not that we support installing from floppies on AMD64 now, no, this is rather a tidying up of release/Makefile and other infrastructure. After that, it will be trivial to axe the floppy support for Alpha too. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/HPMiUkv4P6juNwoRAouzAJUTLay7UKslmsx9w46Neq04jasHAJ9LotiV K4CyS0Pii/jTp/CNN1F6QQ== =/s24 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG--