Floppies for ALPHA

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Tue Jul 29 12:41:38 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:23:43PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:38:48PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> [...]
> > > I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy
> > > support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare.  If so,
> > 
> > Yes, that consensus seems to be there. Finally.. :)
> > 

> 
> > I also get comments that only ISOs aka mandatory CDboot is not
> > acceptable.
> > 
> Sure.  We need to provide the loss of functionality.  Please see
> my other reply to an earlier message in this same thread, which
> has more appropriate context for this.
> 
> > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do.
> > 
> Thanks, it sure does.  :-)
> But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed
> it now?

I think beter now than really close to the release. 

But there might be other views maybe?

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