Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:10:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: bc979@lafn.org, freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <CANCZdfqBAkqj1xXiiYNPdN5JJ_zCg=RyopS1OYoE0AJae_Cpig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201810232155.w9NLtM4Y080783@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <15FCEA6B-C017-40C5-8193-8C7AA3F563CC@mail.sermon-archive.info> <201810232155.w9NLtM4Y080783@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:57 PM Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > Doug Hardie wrote: > > I have a number of production servers that only have bge and I don't see > that listed in either category. None of them are running FreeBSD 12 yet as > it has not been released. Also there are some with rl. Those are add-on > boards so they could be changed, but would require extensive effort as the > machines are about a 4 hour drive from here and would require > reconfiguration (an error prone process when you are tired). > > bge is also used by my main laptop with current Oct 15 18:33 > /boot/kernel/kernel > > bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > > options=c019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) > > Doug, I think bge must be safe as man 4 bge: > "bge - Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver" > & Brooks proposal was ... "a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet > drivers" > Indeed. https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md shows bge is not on the list to go. Warner
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