On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:05:54AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > David Yeske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I still use this. Users will not suddenly quit using hardware that > > > works, they will start using a different OS that works with it, or > > > they will be stuck trying to continue to support an old version of > > > FreeBSD because it works with it. > > > > Read the announcement again. FreeBSD 5.x will still have DoC support, > > which means you have at least two years to grow tired of it before we > > stop putting out 5.x releases. By that time you will hopefully have > > realised it is a dead-end technology and switched to something that > > works. > > > Why announce an intent to kill something that works? > > Do we just not "like" DoC, as a matter of public policy?
I think phk has a good explaination: :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. -gordon
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