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Remove NAND and NANDFS support

Description

Remove NAND and NANDFS support

NANDFS has been broken for years. Remove it. The NAND drivers that
remain are for ancient parts that are no longer relevant. They are
polled, have terrible performance and just for ancient arm
hardware. NAND parts have evolved significantly from this early work
and little to none of it would be relevant should someone need to
update to support raw nand. This code has been off by default for
years and has violated the vnode protocol leading to panics since it
was committed.

Numerous posts to arch@ and other locations have found no actual users
for this software.

Relnotes: Yes
No Objection From: arch@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20745

Details

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Differential Revision
D20745: Remove NAND and NANDFS support
Parents
rS349351: powerpc: Transition to Secure-PLT, like most other OSs (Toolchain part)
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