Re: Any Cronyx Tau* (ce(4) or cp(4)) users ?
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:52:02 UTC
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:42:36 -0500 Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 10:27, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I've noticed this /sbin/sconfig binary and after looking it's for > > configuring Cronyx E1 PCI (PCI as in PCI, not PCIe). > > The products pages ([1], [2]) seems to say that FreeBSD >=7 isn't > > supported. > > We currently only build the drivers for i386 (and they contain native > > compiled code). > > > > Anyway, I'd like to remove this from the tree, I really doubt that > > anyone uses this cards nowadays (or even E1) but just in case I send > > this mail. > > I posted a similar query to -stable in 2020, at > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-February/092037.html > and did not get any response. > > I have D23928 for a deprecation notice for ce and cp. Gleb commented > there that he'd offer to maintain them (and as part of that, removed > sppp in 6aae3517ed25). > I'm not sure I understand the logic here. We're keeping drivers for museum grade hardware that no developer have access to and likely no one uses nowadays just for an hypothetical situation where someone will try to use those cards on FreeBSD 14 i386 in 2021 ? And we're doing that just because the drivers compiles ? -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>