Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[Cy Schubert]

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, Warner Losh writes:
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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
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> > I think I can net boot my data recovery/forensics system, which
> > has floppy and net booted I can run 10/11 or 12 i386 and amd on it.
> >
> > So basically I should be able to get us some additional data points
> > in short order.
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> True. We should add additional sanity / hacks to isa_dma as well. It may be
> that some folks it works for, and some it fails for due to bugs in
> contigmalloc that have gone undetected, or at least uncorrected.
>
> I have an older DELL system that I may bring up, if there's enough memory
> in it to run -current. It's the least obnoxious of the old hardware that I
> have knocking around. But it may be gated by finding working PATA disks
> and/or that PATA <-> SD adapter I have somewhere...

And of course my sandbox which has everything from 10 through 12, i386 and 
amd64 installed.


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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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