From gd78059@sac.sfbay.sun.com Sun Oct 25 00:08:13 2009 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9P78CHq004796 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n9P78Cai011537; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:08:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KS2001036HOGS00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:08:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from dm-sfbay-02.sfbay.sun.com ([129.146.11.31]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KS200IJE6HNP1E0@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:08:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sac.sfbay.sun.com (sac.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.226.132]) by dm-sfbay-02.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id n9P78BO8026411; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sac.sfbay.sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9P78ANp004791; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gd78059@localhost) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id n9P78AKn004787; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:08:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems" Subject: EOF of pcmem/pcram [PSARC/2009/582 FastTrack timeout 10/31/2009] To: PSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: Garrett.Damore@sun.com Message-id: <200910250708.n9P78AKn004787@sac.sfbay.sun.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 Status: RO Content-Length: 1584 Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: EOF of pcmem/pcram 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Garrett D'Amore 1.3 Date of This Document: 25 October, 2009 4. Technical Description EOF of PCMCIA memory card (pcmem, pcram) ---------------------------------------- The pcmem (and pcram) device driver supports "pure" pcmcia memory cards. It allows these devices to be used as a logical floppy disk. However, these devices are no longer common (its not clear that they ever were), and are available only in formats that are far smaller than is typically useful today. (The largest format I've found for such devices is 8 MB, when typical USB flash media has sizes about 1000 times larger. That 8 MB PCMCIA card runs for about $250, when the same 8 GB USB flash can be had for less than 1/10th the price.) There is also the support for ATA based PCMCIA cards, which are used with applications such as CompactFlash. This case does not address ATA based devices, which likely still have applications with CF. Given the ridiculously small (these days) sizes, badly underperforming PCMCIA bus, and wide spread availability of far faster, cheaper, and larger alternatives, we believe the time is ripe to simply drop support for this legacy technology. 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: ON 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open From Sebastien.Roy@Sun.COM Wed Nov 4 07:38:16 2009 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nA4FcFPG001880 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id nA4FcD4k023520 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@sun.com>; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KSL0040DCRQRG00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:38:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from brmea-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.98.43]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KSL00NGLCRP1W40@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:38:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from fe-amer-10.sun.com ([192.18.109.80]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id nA4FcCtZ001187 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:38:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) id <0KSL00000BJDGD00@mail-amer.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:38:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from [129.148.174.103] ([unknown] [129.148.174.103]) by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0KSL002W5CRFM1G0@mail-amer.sun.com>; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:38:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:35:28 -0500 From: Sebastien Roy Subject: Re: EOF of pcmem/pcram [PSARC/2009/582 FastTrack timeout 10/31/2009] In-reply-to: <200910250708.n9P78AKn004787@sac.sfbay.sun.com> Sender: Sebastien.Roy@Sun.COM To: "Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems" Cc: PSARC-ext@Sun.COM, Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM Message-id: <1257348928.26975.7.camel@strat> Organization: Sun Microsystems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200910250708.n9P78AKn004787@sac.sfbay.sun.com> Status: RO Content-Length: 10 +1 -Seb From gdamore@sun.com Wed Nov 4 10:19:38 2009 Received: from sunmail4.singapore.sun.com (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nA4IJbGD008975 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:19:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail4.singapore.sun.com (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id nA4IJH4D010320 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@sun.com>; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:19:36 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KSL00K07K8NOB00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sca-es-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.43.133]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KSL00HDIK8MVM90@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from fe-sfbay-10.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id nA4IJYQA000944 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-10.sun.com by fe-sfbay-10.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) id <0KSL00I00JT34G00@fe-sfbay-10.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.251.11] ([unknown] [76.93.15.33]) by fe-sfbay-10.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0KSL00IKVK8MNH40@fe-sfbay-10.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:34 -0800 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: PSARC 2009/582 EOF of pcmem/pcram Sender: Garrett.Damore@sun.com To: PSARC-ext Message-id: <4AF1C5B6.2030705@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090909) Status: RO Content-Length: 55 This case was approved at PSARC today. - Garrett