Do we need this junk?
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Thu Apr 5 19:49:22 UTC 2007
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
>> [-stable removed since it's not relevant there]
>>
>> On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton
>> <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
>> >
>> >legacyfree1# cd dev/
>> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include
>> ...
>> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include
>> ...
>>
>> Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed?
>>
>
> Because it's junk that doesn't belong, and can't even be use, in a
> modern operating system. For some perspective...
>
> Apple Mac Pro:
> 8-way 3.0GHz Intel Xeon ( 24 GHz )
> 16GB System RAM
> NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB
>
> Now for some contrast, the AHA-1542:
> Supported Operating Systems: MS-DOS 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
> Number of devices: Up to 7 devices under DOS 5.0
> Bus System Interface Type: ISA
> Hard Disk Capacity: Up to 8 GBytes per disk
> Floppy Drive Support: Supports two 5.25 in. floppy drives
> Release Date: 1987
> Status: Discontinued
>
> CVS Log:
> ###############################
> Revision 1.33: Jan 2005 (2 years, 2 months ago) by imp
>
> Final attempt to make aha 1542A working. If not, oh well, I don't
> have the card and no way to reproduce problems. We do this by
> applying the workaround to firmware revsion 0.
> ###############################
> Revision 1.39: Feb 2007 (5 weeks, 6 days ago) by piso
>
> break newbus api: add a new argument of type driver_filter_t to
> bus_setup_intr()
> ###############################
>
>
> # grep aha /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
> device aha # Adaptec 154x SCSI adapters
>
>
> Are you fucking kidding me???!!!!!
Stop being an elitist twit. Thanks.
Scott
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