Re: Any Cronyx Tau* (ce(4) or cp(4)) users ?

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 9:52 AM Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
wrote:

> 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 ?
>

I've cc'd Gleb to see if he can shine some light on this.

Warner