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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:39:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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	Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone? 
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hey If someone did adopt it then it wouldn't be a problem..
if no-on edoes then it can remain 'unsupported'


On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> said:
> 
> > the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt
> > it..
> 
> Probably not.  The hardware is just so transcendently evil that it's
> unlikely it could be made to work reliably for more than one or two
> people at a time.
> 
> At some point we need to stop supporting antique hardware since it
> places a significant burden on the advancement of the rest of the
> system.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 
> 



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