Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 08:54:35 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FCP-101: obsolete driver removal planned for 2019-05-18 Message-ID: <20190512085435.0b7dc847@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrUNGbjBOUF0BLMf_V=qiSyoDRSLRTJgHjF-vFyPzQBWA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201905111433.x4BEWnlX058386@fire.js.berklix.net> <3c911071-f794-1e27-87e1-16a789a95852@grosbein.net> <CANCZdfrUNGbjBOUF0BLMf_V=qiSyoDRSLRTJgHjF-vFyPzQBWA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:21:46 -0500 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2019, 12:52 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: > > > 11.05.2019 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > >> I've posted a review to remove obsolete 10 and 10/100 Ethernet drivers > > >> as previous approved in FCP-101. > > >> The following drivers are slated for > > >> removal from FreeBSD-HEAD (to be FreeBSD-13): > > >> > > >> ae, bm, cs, de, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, sf, sn, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe > > > > > > OMG ! ed ! That EOL's loads of PC boxes I have (& a show box of > > > spare) that will never be able to upgrade. > > > > Do those boxes have 10M-only or 100Mbps variants of ed(4)? > > What kind of hardware do they have (CPU and memory-wise)? > > > More relevant questions might be 1) will these drivers only be removed from FBSD >= 13? 2) what versions of FBSD is Julian now running on his hardware? 3) does he ever plan to upgrade this hardware to >= FBSD 13? I know Julian and he has an amazing collection of old hardware. I suspect that most of it will not even be able to run FBSD 13. > > There are no 100M ed variants. There are some PC Card variants that have > 100M MII connections, but they are limited to about 12Mbps due to bus > limits. Even the PCI ones didn't have 100M mii connections. > -- Gary Jennejohn (gj@)
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