> >Isn't this about the time that we can say: This is depreciated so much
> >that it will no longer work?
>
> No. Compare the code sizes of hd.c and the ide suite. It's still important
> for old, small machines.
Yes, I cut all the IDE features back out of hd.c with small size as a goal.
I think you would seriously have to consider giving drivers/block/xd.c
the axe first. It probably makes sense to drop both xd.c & hd.c in 2.5.x
along with a bunch of other stone-age stuff (like 1x & 2x non-IDE CD-ROMs ?)
> I don't know if the ide driver will even work at all
> on machines with ST506 drives.
As of 2.3.47 ide didn't work on old MFM/st506 stuff. (2.3.48 and up just
cold reboot right after "Uncompressing kernel..." message on my sx16)
Paul.
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