cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:22:49AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:39:30PM -0700, Jon Mini wrote:
> > Robert Watson [rwatson at FreeBSD.org] wrote :
> > > I think they'll be needed for i386 for a while yet, but when it comes to
> > > the newer 64-bit platforms, I tend to agree.  I don't even know if you can
> > > buy a sparc64 box with a floppy drive at this point...  It's hard for
> > > me to imagine anyone shipping an ia64 or amd64 machine with a floppy
> > > disk drive but without a bootable CDROM...
> > 
> > The last time I used a boot floppy was over a year ago when I had
> > made some changes to the boot code and needed to make sure it still
> > worked for floppies.
> > 
> > I can see the argument for supporting floppies on i386, but future
> > platforms don't require it. I think that these days it is harder
> > to find a floppy than a blank CDR, but then maybe that's because I
> > have an Apple laptop.
> > 
> Not everyone has a CD-R/RW burner, you know that?  I'm more
> in a mood to remove the support for modern drivers from BOOTMFS
> and driver floppies, assuming that if one has a modern enough
> hardware she also have a CD-ROM drive.  Killing functionality
> like this would just decrease the number of potential FreeBSD
> installations (not to say users).

I second this.  Floppies are going to be in use for quite a long time
just yet.  Lots of people prefer to install from FTP while booting from
floppies to save the disc for something more useful than bootstrap
platform for one-time installation.

./danfe