Re: BM ethernet driver for Mac PowerPC blue and white G3.

In reply to: Chris Tucker : "BM ethernet driver for Mac PowerPC blue and white G3."
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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:45:45 UTC

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:32:19PM -0700, Chris Tucker wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying out FreeBSD 13.2 on my blue and white G3 Macintosh.
> 
> I read that FreeBSD 13.0 dropped BM0 / BMAC / BM ethernet driver support,
> which is the ethernet the blue and white uses.

If that's true and it was removed, it should be reinstated.  While we
did deprecate many 10/100 Mbit/s only capable drivers, on-board NICs
for popular computer models were made an exception, e.g. hme(4).

./danfe