Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[Cy Schubert]

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, Warner Losh writes:
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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > [snip snip]
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> > If someone wants to support it, and it doesn't make things in other
> > places harder ... why not do it!
> >
> > It at least keeps our APIs honest..
> >
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> If it actually works on real hardware, something we have conflicting
> reports on at the moment...
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> And we seem to be short of the 'someone' that would be able to take up the
> banner of wanting to support it, having the skill to support it and
> demonstrating the time is there by fixing bugs...

Bruce was partially right. It does work on i386. My test on an i386 MP 
kernel worked.

Just a guess, as I haven't really looked at it, I'm willing to bet the 
controller expects to use addresses below 4 GB.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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