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

2003-02-04 Thread 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,

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

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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

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

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
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

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

2003-02-03 Thread Gordon Tetlow
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

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

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Gordon Tetlow wrote: 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

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

2003-02-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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

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

2003-02-02 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 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. Why? To what benefit? -- Terry To

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

2003-02-02 Thread Alex Newman
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:13:15AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 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

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

2003-02-02 Thread David Yeske
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. FreeBSD is the only BSD that currently supports the DOC?

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

2003-02-02 Thread Terry Lambert
David Yeske wrote: 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. FreeBSD is the only BSD that