Re: No more floppy drive

In message: <412D1CE6.3050603_at_root.org>
            Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20040825222345.GB79209_at_ip.net.ua>
: >             Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org> writes:
: > : On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:17:33PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > Generally one doesn't want ANY hints when one has pnpisabios or acpi
: > : > supplying the hints, unless one really does have an exceptional device
: > : > at that location.
: > : > 
: > : A lot of current_at_ users report missing /dev/fd0 due to this.  Can this
: > : be fixed somehow?
: > 
: > acpi should be providing these hints, but it appears that either that
: > code isn't working, hasn't been committed or there's no fallback to
: > more traditional methods when there's no information about fd drives.
: > This is one of the twistiest, nastiest, ugliest part of PCAT :-(
: 
: The code I added merely does:
: 
: if (_FDE working)
:      add fd[0-2] children accordingly
:      if (fdX._FDI working)
:          set type on fdX
: else
:      unmodified hints probe for fd[0-2]
: 
: if (fdX type not set)
:      unmodified drive type probe via rtc
: 
: Since the probe is unmodified if _FDE is not present, I can't see a new 
: problem here.  If this is a new problem, it must be elsewhere.

I'll take a look at things.  I think it may have to do with
presence/absence things.

Warner