Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:00:25 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf Message-ID: <20030515030025.GB54061@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030514190054.D322@freebsdmall.com> References: <200305121312.h4CDC9E1094403@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030514163543.GC17271@sunbay.com> <20030514214842.GA50204@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030514221545.GC57110@sunbay.com> <20030515014303.GA53992@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030514190054.D322@freebsdmall.com>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:00:54PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:43:03PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > In SCO, there used to be a lot more drivers floppies, categorized by > > > their use, Mass Storage, Networking, etc. Why not? > > > > I strongly feel floppies should be de-supported. > > It would be easy to extend the existing awk scripts to support more > than one driver floppy. Some environments or platforms may still have > a use for them, and it doesn't cause us much pain to continue to > support this configuration. It is the *constant* cause of 'make release' breakage -- so there is much pain to continuing to support them. Honestly who do know that actually still installs on an Alpha using floppies? There aren't any embedded Alpha systems. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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