Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:32:34 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <606121646.4500834.1416533554657.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <573D346B-3AB8-4EC7-A03F-1B2B1291A5BC@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > 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? > > > > amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are > > clearly not going to be used on these machines... > > > > 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. > Yep. I'm typing this on a laptop that has a single core amd chip and an re(4) net chip. I actually run i386 FreeBSD on it (although I have booted an amd64 FreeBSD CD), so I don't care so long as these old net drivers remain in i386. rick > 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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