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Date:      Wed, 31 May 95 10:15:03 JST
From:      Masahiro SEKIGUCHI <seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RELNOTES, 2.0.5 ALPHA, on fe driver
Message-ID:  <9505310115.AA11607@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>

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In RELNOTES of 2.0.5 ALPHA, "2.2 Ethernet cards", the Ethernet
interface supported by fe driver is explained as "Fujitsu MB86960A
family of NICs."

# Thank you core team for integrating it in official distribution.

It is technically correct, but I'd like to suggest to use the names of
the cards, just like other drivers.  For example, ed-driver-supported
interfaces are listed as "SMC Elite ..., Novell NE1000, NE2000, ..."
instead of "National Semiconductor DS8390."

I enclosed a proposed patch to the RELNOTES.

One more (digressive?) comments on the same part of RELNOTES.  The
title of the section reads "Ethernet cards", but it lists an FDDI
card!  How abount change it as "Ethernet (and other network) cards"?

Thanks,

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*** RELNOTES.old        Wed May 31 08:54:46 1995
--- RELNOTES    Wed May 31 08:57:56 1995
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*** 494,499 ****
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  2.2. Ethernet cards

+ Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
+
  SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
  WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
  based clones.  SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
***************
*** 503,509 ****
  DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)
  DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs

! Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs

  Intel EtherExpress

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  DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)
  DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs

! Fujitsu FMV-181 and FMV-182

  Intel EtherExpress

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