Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:36:15 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030731033615.GO430@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2003-Jul-29 12:54:36 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:17:38AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> After that, it will be trivial to axe the floppy support for >> Alpha too. >> >I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy >support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare. If so, >could any of you please review the attached patch? (It makes >Alpha similar to AMD64 regarding floppies, i.e., no floppies.) I hope we're just talking about booting from floppy here. There's Ruslan's patch doesn't actually remove the floppy device and the rest of the thread concentrates on "booting" but that magic word is missing from the above (and it wasn't in the trimmed context). Peter
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030731033615.GO430>