>    Anyway, I'm building --current on a sparc here following Alistair's
>    build recipe.  Apart from commenting out the fdc0 and fd* in sparc
>    kernel's all seems well.
> 
> hmm.. my sparc doesn't have problems with this.. maybe it's beacuse it
> doesn't have a floopy drive on the machine at all (elc), it does probe
> for it and say "not configured" at boot time (like it always has done..)
>    

I'm seeing a bit of weirdness on elc's: the PROM reports an `fd' device, but
when I try to actually access the chip I get non-sense (ie. reading its
registers result in 0xff as if there's no chip there though I would expect
a bus error if that's the case).

I also noted that sjg's SS2 probed the chip to be a 82077...

-pk