Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 21:22:52 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing vpo driver Message-ID: <20200131052252.GA28376@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqrFhX%2B1ZLeuBmp337rP7dBk4Q7NROdW-w=mpFLMqpTEw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqrFhX%2B1ZLeuBmp337rP7dBk4Q7NROdW-w=mpFLMqpTEw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 05:56:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > Unless there's a concrete objection, and some indication it has been used > in FreeBSD 12 or later, I plan on removing it after FOSDEM sometime. > > This driver is for the ZIP100 drive (the 100MB floppy) connected via a > parallel port. This hasn't been relevant for 20 years since the industry > has moved on. The umass driver supports the USB version of the ZIP100 drive > and I used last summer to recover a dozen zip discs for a friend. This > provides a migration path for those that may need it for $15-$25 on ebay > depending on your luck. > > Given the lack of changes to this drive, and the massive changes in the > system since it was written, I'd be greatly surprised if it still worked on > relevant hardware. FYI, when I suggested to remove the Linux driver people that are still using it did speak up (and helped porting it to the modern Linux block device framework).
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