cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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).


Cheers,
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