Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:34:57PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Gergo Szakal wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:29 +0200 Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it about time to drop support for floppies soon? No, floppies are still great, especially on legacy hardware.

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Petr Janda
Francois Tigeot wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:34:57PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Gergo Szakal wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:29 +0200 Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it about time to drop support for floppies soon? No, floppies are still

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: You are right, but I think because DragonFly is a small sized project we should be trying to support the most common modern hardware, instead of ancient hardware that barely no one uses these days. How do you decide what is barely used these days? Sascha --

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
Francois Tigeot wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:34:57PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Gergo Szakal wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:29 +0200 Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it about time to drop support for floppies soon? No, floppies are still great, especially

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Petr Janda
Matt Emmerton wrote: You may be interested to know that my primary DFly development machine is an AMD Sempron-based system with a BIOS date of late 2004. This machine could hardly be considered ancient, but yet it has ISA slots and numerous other devices that rely on the ISA bus architecture.

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Bill Hacker
Petr Janda wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: You may be interested to know that my primary DFly development machine is an AMD Sempron-based system with a BIOS date of late 2004. This machine could hardly be considered ancient, but yet it has ISA slots and numerous other devices that rely on the

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-21 Thread Petr Janda
Gergo Szakal wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:29 +0200 Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it about time to drop support for floppies soon? No, floppies are still great, especially on legacy hardware. Yeah indeed, but I would drop (E)ISA bus support and hardware that

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-21 Thread Matt Emmerton
Gergo Szakal wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:29 +0200 Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it about time to drop support for floppies soon? No, floppies are still great, especially on legacy hardware. Yeah indeed, but I would drop (E)ISA bus support and hardware that uses