Re: Dropping firewire support from boot loader

Warner Losh <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Nov 2022 16:55:42 -0700

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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 would suggest that old PowerMac's might be the most
> likely usage context.
>

Right now, though, this is an i386 only feature...

Warner