Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Gene Heskett]

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@xxxxxxx> 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
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