Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[Alex Kozlov]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:16:15PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > I'm keen on getting that into the tree. I have a ufd device and a need to
> > use it from time to time. If nothing else, I can be a reviewer of the code.
> > Is ufd working for you?
> It does work. My todo was to merge ufdformat into fdformat but as I said 
> they are different enough that I need to work out how best to merge them. 
> Having said that, now that there's discussion of removing fdc(4) maybe it's 
> best to simply use ufdformat separately from fdformat that when we have the 
> inclination to remove fdc(4), which may be very soon now -- it would be 
> much less messy. I'm open to either option.
If you talk about https://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/ufdformat/
it's easier to just import it as ufdformat. The code above is very wip though.

> Personally, I don't care much (well maybe just a little) if fdc(4) itself 
> is removed however I think we need some kind of support, which USB fd can 
> supply if or when fdc(4) is removed. Maybe we should deprecate in 12 and 
> remove in 13?
As I understand, plan it to remove fdc(4) aka NEC765/i8272 controller
device driver and userland utilites that depends on it, usb floppy uses
umass UFI which will stay.


-- 
Alex