FCP-0101: Remove (most) 10/100 Ethernet drivers
Cy Schubert
Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com
Thu Aug 30 16:01:30 UTC 2018
In message <20180830155203.GC21890 at spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks
Davis wr
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> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > In message <20180829202305.GA19802 at spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks=20
> > Davis wr
> > ites:
> > > My draft FCP to remove most 10/100 Ethertnet drivers is awaiting review
> > > by someone who can merge the pull request. I'd like to put it around
> > > for broader review prior to requesting core@ approval:
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> > > https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/pull/18=3D20
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> > In addition I have a laptop that has rl, three running machines with=20
> > nfe and and one with vr. In addition to fxp, xl, and dc, that I=20
> > mentioned before, this would be very disruptive.
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> When was the laptop made? Is the vr onboard or an addon card? As I'll
> ask when I ask for broader feedback: do you plan to be running this
> system unchanged except for OS update in 2024?
The vr is on a motherboard and the rl is on a laptop motherboard. The
laptop was made about six or seven years ago.
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> > Isn't nfe gigabit?
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> Including nfe was a mistake (the driver says: "NVIDIA nForce MCP Fast
> Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet" and I stopped reading at Fast Ethernet
> because who ever writes this phrase?).
ahh
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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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