Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:57:11 +0900
> Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>> > As far as I can see Arcnet is only used by the Amiga bah(4) driver.
>> > Isn't it possible to keep it somehow, as an MP-safe network stack would
>> > be irrelevant for the Amiga platform?
>>
>> We could keep it with some pain, but we cannot keep it working if there is
>> really no user. (I'm not sure if it works or not even now.) Is it still
>> worthwhile?
>
> I will not insist in keeping it when there is pain to do so. And you may
> be right that there is no user, but this is valid for a lot of platforms
> and drivers.
>
>
>> Anyway I don't proceed this attempt ignoring your request.
>> I wish there were actual users though...
>
> Maybe we can wait for a few days to give more potential users the chance
> to read these messages on the port-amiga list?

Sure. I was a bit eager.

>
> In the meantime I will talk with other Amiga users if anybody owns such
> a board. Probably is@ still got one, as he was working on the driver many
> years ago.

Thanks!

>
> When nothing happens and nobody is able to test it, we can remove the code.

Okay, I'm waiting more.

  ozaki-r