Re: Dropping firewire support from boot loader

Warner Losh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
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I've created a diff: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37334

Warner

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 3:07 AM Bob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > On 9 Nov 2022, at 23:55, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 3:42 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote on
> > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:01:41 UTC :
> >
> > > I'd like to drop firewire support from the boot loader. It's not been
> used
> > > in quite some time, as far as I can tell. Nor have I (or anybody else)
> > > tested it in forever.
> > >
> > > Is anybody still using it? Does anybody know if it works? Any
> objections to
> > > removing it from FreeBSD 14?
>
> I think I still have hardware that will do this. I can check it out if
> anyone cares...
>
> > I would suggest that old PowerMac's might be the most
> > likely usage context.
> >
> > Right now, though, this is an i386 only feature...
> >
> > Warner
>
> --
> Bob Bishop
> [email protected]
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