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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2018 19:28:06 +1000
From:      Trev <freebsd-stable@sentry.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers
Message-ID:  <aa214fa0-48ee-8114-0313-5263a14dd99c@sentry.org>
In-Reply-To: <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org>

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> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:05:16PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md)
> outlines a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet drivers in FreeBSD 12
> and remove them in FreeBSD 13 to reduce the burden of maintaining and
> improving the network stack. >
> The current list of drivers slated for REMOVAL is:
>
> ae, bfe, bm, cs, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, rl, sf, smc, sn,
> ste, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
>
> Please reply to this message with nominations to the exception list.

Sill using my Asus EeePC 701 (just bought a new battery pack) for 
FreeBSD with ae nic (and I do not foresee discontinuing its use any time 
soon as its serial port comes in handy for talking to other serial devices).



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