On Sunday 01 March 2020 07:46:01 Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 12:19:14AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > On Saturday 29 February 2020 16:58:11 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:14 AM Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > So if you or Denis think there's some value in me continuing to > > > > explore one of these areas, I can continue, otherwise I can simply > > > > resend the last part of my series with the few missing Cc and be done > > > > with it. > > > > > > It's fine - this driver isn't worth spending a ton of effort on. > > > > > > The only users are virtualization, and even they are going away > > > because floppies are so small, and other things have become more > > > standard anyway (ie USB disk) or easier to emulate (NVMe or whatever). > > > > > > So I suspect the only reason floppy is used even in that area is just > > > legacy "we haven't bothered updating to anything better and we have > > > old scripts and images that work". > > > > > > Linus > > > > There are real users with real floppy drives out there. > > OK thanks for the feedback. Then I'll continue the minimum cleanups to > try to focus on maintainability and on the principle of least surprise, > and I'll have a quick look at the possible simplifications brought by > the limitation to one FDC, in case that really helps. Thank you very much for the work. I haven't ever seen a machine with more than single FDC so that case might be hard to test. There are some ISA FDCs with configurable I/O addresses (maybe I have one of them somewhere) but they might not work properly together with on-board super I/O FDCs. The most common case - one FDC with at most two drives should be enough for the modern simplified driver. -- Ondrej Zary
