floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

[Kevin Kofler]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> ACPI turned out to be full of lies. The real problem is that machines
> will report a floppy controller even if they have no floppy drives
> attached, and the ACPI function that's supposed to return a list of
> drives usually returns a mixture of falsehoods and untruths. Merely
> havig a floppy controller is enough to get the floppy driver loaded,
> which then hangs for ages looking for a drive.

I think it's sad that we're sacrificing hardware support for boot times.

We should probe for everything by default. Users who don't have a floppy 
drive and want to save some boot time can blacklist the driver manually.

        Kevin Kofler