cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf

[Jon Mini]

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.

-- 
Jonathan Mini <mini at freebsd.org>
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