Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:30:38PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> 
> The fd and hd device share many code, separating them is not a good
> idea.

If code duplication is a problem, we could link the same code staticaly for
each module.  Size of biosdisk module is an issue, because it's always used
in core.img, but size of floppy module isn't, because it's never needed for
bootstrap.

> Perhaps what we need is a way to optionally disable the floppy
> device, for example, with a variable such as no_floppy.

But that makes biosdisk bigger, not smaller :-(

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