On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:06:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Is there any ppc machine we still need floppy support on? Can floppy be > > > made a module only? > > > > All old world pmacs (that is those prior to the blue&white G3, but not > > the nubus ones which we don't support) have and need the floppy disk, as > > this is the only way to do the initial boot on those, with miboot. > > They're not using the PC floppy driver, though.
Indeed, they use swim3 (which is a nightmare as well if you ask me ;) Ben.
