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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2018 08:43:33 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org,  FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@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:  <CANCZdfovmVe6NavyYviEAkfGLWmByCvh78sB4KOxmO_L3HSqhw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181004144011.GA70537@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org> <20181004142644.GA17270@lonesome.com> <20181004144011.GA70537@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:40 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:26:44PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:44:11AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > OK I guess I can understand removing 10 (I personally haven't seen
> > > one in a very long time) but 100 are omnipresent and most of my NICs
> > > are in fact 100.
> >
> > Sigh.  If you really plan to still be using i386 and 10/100 ether in
> > 2024, perhaps you should consider NetBSD.
>
> I don't quite understand why are you grouping 10/100 vs. 1000 rather than
> 10 vs. 100/1000.
>

As far as I know, none of the drivers listed could do 1Gbps. They were all
specifically 10Mbps or 10/100Mbps. Support for 10Mbps or 100Mbps isn't
being removed from the tree: there's still dozens of GigE drivers that can
do those speeds that have PCI or better bus attachments.

Warner



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