Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 12:17:57 -0500 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: "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: <CANCZdfpJ9FZZDcNewWgtwuu_vVQ-cvp15_DzHaC5VnfwUL6bXA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b3503d0c-52ad-1234-925a-e013489b54eb@grosbein.net> References: <201905111433.x4BEWnlX058386@fire.js.berklix.net> <3c911071-f794-1e27-87e1-16a789a95852@grosbein.net> <CANCZdfrUNGbjBOUF0BLMf_V=qiSyoDRSLRTJgHjF-vFyPzQBWA@mail.gmail.com> <b3503d0c-52ad-1234-925a-e013489b54eb@grosbein.net>
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On Sun, May 12, 2019, 12:00 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: > 12.05.2019 8:21, Warner Losh 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)? > > > > 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. > > There was RTL8029AS "NE2000-compatible" 100M 32 bit PCI 2.1 adapter. > Not sure if ed(4) supports RTL8029AS. > It does, but there is the same limitations. The card can't do DMA, so it's limited by inb/outb limitations. It also only has a 10Mbps transceiver built in. If people sold 100M attachments, it still won't do much more than 10Mbps. Warner >
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