Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver("fla").

[Yury Tarasievich]

Nat Lanza wrote:

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:06, Terry Lambert wrote:

But if that's the argument for removing it, then it's probably
time to remove the ability to use non-DMA IDE drives from the
ATA driver, and kill all the ethernet drivers that have alignment
requirements for their DMA engines, making m_pullup copies
necessary, and yanking all drivers that do destructive probes,
and getting rid of the F00F workaround, and yanking all support
for things hung off the floppy controller, etc. etc..

All that could be justified using exactly the same argument.

It's great to hear you volunteering to maintain this driver, Terry.

Is the code *broken*? If not, what is The Real Reason to axe it?

I'd also add that in existing environment relevance of having FreeBSD support for any brand new hardware is not *that* higher than relevance of maintaining support for existing hardware. Perhaps not higher at all.




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