Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[A. Wilcox]

On 02/12/17 21:09, Warner Losh wrote:
> the older x86 that required it doesn't run FreeBSD anymore
> anyway.


is this an official acknowledgement of the PR that I attempted to file
before I even changed my name[1] but was shooed away because "it works
in qemu"?

n.b. printf never succeeded even at the beginning of init386; at that
point my day job was far too pressing to continue tinkering for a while.
 Of course, I gave up completely after being called an idiot for even
trying[2].

Not that such an acknowledgement would make me /happy/ (on the contrary,
my last FreeBSD computer is a Pentium II that is still clinging to
9-stable because 10 and 11 don't boot on it; haven't tried 12), but at
least the project seems(?) to be ready to acknowledge that the hardware
notes for x86 are a bold face lie[3] and that FreeBSD does *not* support
chips that don't have SSE any more.

--arw


[1]:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-February/054659.html
[2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd@fug.com.br/msg76535.html
[3]: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html#proc

-- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python)
https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/

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