From nobody Wed Dec 15 16:52:02 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1562518DF837 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mx.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.155.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mx.blih.net", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4JDh9c4X3Pz4lGb; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bidouilliste.com; s=mx; t=1639587123; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Eyy4uavbvx5xtTIEWHGZC3ytiYj4VDvcEKi8qXJuBps=; b=KNs2r6bmdlNR62xPkICaJeCiPc+nVSxRN6EUloJRpXeNPARgjHzqqie7VApXd05dZeCgGz h/aSjSU0zG1dQpQa4iJAcpEy7BEfuUnIvxrBd2VfIogGwYR8Kz1X1RnHNneX/UhYNUUAes 7qn3t5xlqIvBs3KQGdUWprZ9iiUv25Q= Received: from skull.home.blih.net (lfbn-idf2-1-1163-183.w90-92.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.92.222.183]) by mx.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id a18a351f (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:52:02 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot To: Ed Maste Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Any Cronyx Tau* (ce(4) or cp(4)) users ? Message-Id: <20211215175202.e1d101079a9c22c9094577f3@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20211215162538.99d8d81650af56e2276f2f88@bidouilliste.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd14.0) List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4JDh9c4X3Pz4lGb X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:42:36 -0500 Ed Maste wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 10:27, Emmanuel Vadot 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