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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:37:10 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I'd like to axe some drivers
Message-ID:  <573D346B-3AB8-4EC7-A03F-1B2B1291A5BC@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com>
References:  <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com>

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On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:07 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:

> I'm fine w/ removing these...  Should we do some house cleaning on
> amd64's GENERIC too?
>=20
> amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are
> clearly not going to be used on these machines...
>=20
> My recommended list to remove:
> ae, bfe, dc, fxp, hme?, pcn, rl, tx, vr, wb, xl, cs, ed, ex, ep, fe,
> sn, xe

All the PC Card ones (cs, ed, ex, ep, fe, sn, xe) are no brainers to =
remove
from GENERIC.

hme is a Sparc-centric card, so can go.

The CardBus ones (dc, fxp, rl, re and xl) are less no-brainerish. Older =
64-bit
laptops have only CardBus, and some have these built-in. Since these =
types
of systems are rare, and rarely NFS boot, having them as modules is =
likely
fine.

Of the others, only pcn may be relevant enough to stay. At one time it =
was in
there because one of the virtualization programs (qemu? virtual box?) =
had that
as its default network config.

Warner


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