Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

[Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Wikström schreef:
> Isn't it about time to drop support for floppies soon? Legacy support 
> is probably not what most people using DF is looking for and the 
> developers have (in my opinion at least) better things to spend their 
> time on.
>
> Just a though, and I might be wrong.
Sorry, but you are wrong. :)

Floppies (even when emulated via ILOM, via a virtual machine like e.g. 
VMware or thru cd-rom booting with el-torito) are essential. It would be 
stupid to remove that. Gergo also has a point wrt. legacy hardware.

Cheers,
Emiel