This is _only_ about the driver for the DiskOnChip devices from M-Systems. This does not affect any other device. If you have never seen a /dev/fla0 mounted on your system, you don't need to read the rest.
I realize that there are users of the DiskOnChip hardware out there now, but I seriously don't expect there to be any users once we get to FreeBSD 6.0 so I plant to remove the driver once the 5-stable branch is laid down. This means that the 5.x series of FreeBSD releases will be the last to have built in support for the Disk-On-Chip driver. The driver in the tree works with the M-systems devices I have to test with, but M-Systems have neither sent me the necessary software updates nor hardware samples of the latest generation of the DoC and I have received no emails from people who were stuck because of this. Combine this with the fact that the DoC is a CPU-poll technology where you busy-wait for the flash devices to do their thing, rather than get an interrupt when they are done, I think we can safely say that the DoC is well past its prime time. As far as I can tell, people use CompactFlash these days instead. Protests to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
