Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:13:14 -0500 From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: marius@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, np@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NICs not in GENERIC Message-ID: <4F43C29A.1090703@cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On 02/21/12 09:56, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or shall not > be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)? <....> > - if_mxge <....> Speaking for mxge, it requires the better part of 1MB worth of firmware files, and it is a rather uncommon device. I never added it to GENERIC because I was trying to avoid bloating the kernel. It works just fine as a module. Drew
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