Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:36:18 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Tuesday 06 February 2007 11:30, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:37, Sunil Naidu wrote: >>On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>> Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually >>> vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel completely. >> >>I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do >>use Floppy on Linux ;-) >>Maybe by 2.6.30 or so... > >How about not even then? There are few uses for the floppy drive today >within linux, this is true. BUT, that floppy is often the only was
Gahh, s/was/way above. Old fingers seem to have minds of their own... :)
>software can be gotten from a vintage computer and published, or from a >publishing site back to that vintage computer. Please don't take away >our last data path to what is to many of us, a very old and trusted dear >friend. OS9, and later Nitros9, on a TRS-80 Color Computer, was my >teacher about unix-like systems, running a multiuser/multitasking >operating system on a machine with only 64k of ram, although my current >machine has 2 megs in it. And I occasionally still miss some of the >things I could do on that little machine that I have not been able to do >since, like start an assembly that generates an output listing, and >switch to another monitor or window & list that listing to the screen a >maximum of 256 bytes behind the writing of that listing to the disk file >it was going to. > >The floppy may not be usefull to linux anymore, but in support of other >older formats, it is priceless. > >>> Stefan Seyfried >> >>~Akula2 >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" >> in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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