Removing: bktr(4) Brooktree Video Capture card

[Justin Hibbits]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:46:02 -0700
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I think that the time has come to remove bktr(4) from the tree. This
> is for PCI-only hardware that can't do better than SD capture. For
> its time (~2000) it was a cool card. However, it's no longer relevant
> to FreeBSD and is completely unused as far as I can tell. The bread
> crumbs in my searches end around 2006 in the NYCBUG dmesg database.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Warner

I had/have(?) one of these cards, and getting bktr(4) working for my
card (ATI TV Wonder, non-VE) was one of my first contributions to
FreeBSD, almost 16 years ago.

Aside from being unused now, it's likely unusable, since at least in
the US OTA is ATSC-only, and cable has done away with analog long ago,
so it might be useful for old game consoles, maybe?

Agreed, long since time to remove it.

- Justin