Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> -On [19991209 16:03], Greg Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >On Wednesday, 8 December 1999 at 20:23:24 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> >>
> >> This is -CURRENT. It pains me to say it, but anyone trying to
> >> run anything "useful" on -CURRENT gets what they deserve. This is
> >> the only place where we can make clean breaks with the past, and as
> >> painful as that can be, we simply have to do that occasionally.
> >
> >Next month it'll be -RELEASE. This isn't the time to remove such
> >significant functionality. If it weren't for that, I'd agree with
> >you.
>
> Think about that some more.
>
> After that it will be 4.1. Nice to give people a driver and then rip it
> out when 4.1 comes when Soren fixes the last of the things people
> needed to have into the ata driver.
>
> I was already testing the ata driver and even procured some more info
> for Soren than he already had. Same goes for a bunch of other people.
> But the opposite goes for a lot of people.
>
> People running CURRENT to be cutting edge as in being elite with the
> latest FreeBSD thus get bitten.
>
> I'd say, cut loose the wd driver. (VoxWare removed would be cool too.)
If half as much energy was spent adding the missing bits of functionality
to the new systems as people have been spending complaining it then we'd be
there ages ago. Trying desperately to prolong the agony by keeping the old
stuff on life support is counter productive.
Damn it people! If you want cyrix busmaster support, then the code is
there, it's not all that hard to extract and adapt the cyrix code to ata.
If you have got cyrix hardware and can test your work, then even better.
Cheers,
-Peter
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