cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 14 20:00:31 PDT 2003


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:00:54PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:43:03PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > In SCO, there used to be a lot more drivers floppies, categorized by
> > > their use, Mass Storage, Networking, etc.  Why not?
> > 
> > I strongly feel floppies should be de-supported.
> 
> It would be easy to extend the existing awk scripts to support more
> than one driver floppy.  Some environments or platforms may still have
> a use for them, and it doesn't cause us much pain to continue to
> support this configuration.

It is the *constant* cause of 'make release' breakage -- so there is much
pain to continuing to support them.

Honestly who do know that actually still installs on an Alpha using
floppies?  There aren't any embedded Alpha systems.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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