svn commit: r276526 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/asr sys/i386/conf sys/modules sys/modules/asr

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 1, 2015, at 21:34, Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Author: scottl
> Date: Fri Jan  2 05:34:14 2015
> New Revision: 276526
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276526
> 
> Log:
>  Garbage collect the asr driver.  Hardware for it has not been produced in
>  roughly 10 years, and the driver has not enjoyed any significant maintenance
>  since long before that.  Despite well-meaning efforts from a number of
>  people, myself included, it never made the jump to 64-bit and was relegated
>  to the back-corners of i386.  Now its frailty is hampering forward progress
>  with Clang.  Any renewed engineering efforts are of course welcome and can
>  happen outside of the tree.  No MFC of this is planned.

An MFC will be required if clang 3.5.0 is going to be MFCed to stable/10 though...
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