Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:13:50 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Cc: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from 11-CURRENT Message-ID: <2695447.5Tzp0JqtFD@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <52EFA015.5070601@FreeBSD.org> References: <52EFA015.5070601@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday, February 03, 2014 02:56:37 PM Christian Brueffer wrote: > Hi, > > for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP network > chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4). > > The former came first and is based on a binary blob. The latter was > later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free. > > nfe(4) supports all chips nve(4) supports, in addition to all the newer > hardware. In essence, nfe(4) has been the de-facto standard driver for > a long time. nve(4) has been commented out in GENERIC since 2007. > > For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removing > it from HEAD. > > Does anyone see a reason not to do this? Go for it! -- John Baldwin
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