On 08/15/2016 16:54, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2016 08:38:02 PM John Baldwin wrote: >> Author: jhb >> Date: Mon Aug 15 20:38:02 2016 >> New Revision: 304187 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/304187 >> >> Log: >> Remove the mcd(4) driver for Mitsumi CD-ROM players. >> >> This is a driver for a pre-ATAPI ISA CD-ROM adapter. As noted in >> the manpage, this driver is only useful as a backend to cdcontrol to >> play audio CDs since it doesn't use DMA, so its data performance is >> "abysmal" (and that was true in the mid 90's). > > No one stepped up to test patches for it either when I last posted patches to > convert it from timeout(9) to callout(9). I have a few more drivers that are > both very old and that people have no business using in 12 (think ISA > adapters that don't do DMA and can't be used with pccard) that I will be > removing over the next little while. I brought up a list of drivers on arch@ > a couple of years ago and the conversation drifted off into the weeds about > trimming GENERIC, etc. No one objected to the specific drivers I listed > though (and I got a few pleas of "please remove"). If someone shows up > desperately clutching an ISA adapter they can always dig up the source from > svn and deal with forward porting it for whatever API changes have happened > since it was removed.
I have one of these Mitsumi CD-ROM drives somewhere in my basement but I haven't used it for many years. I think I only used it with "PAO", though. http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/index.html Maybe we should kill APM, too! ;-) Jung-uk Kim
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