I'd like to axe some drivers

[Rick Macklem]

Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:07 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm fine w/ removing these...  Should we do some house cleaning on
> > amd64's GENERIC too?
> > 
> > amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are
> > clearly not going to be used on these machines...
> > 
> > My recommended list to remove:
> > ae, bfe, dc, fxp, hme?, pcn, rl, tx, vr, wb, xl, cs, ed, ex, ep,
> > fe,
> > sn, xe
> 
> All the PC Card ones (cs, ed, ex, ep, fe, sn, xe) are no brainers to
> remove
> from GENERIC.
> 
> hme is a Sparc-centric card, so can go.
> 
> The CardBus ones (dc, fxp, rl, re and xl) are less no-brainerish.
> Older 64-bit
> laptops have only CardBus, and some have these built-in. Since these
> types
> of systems are rare, and rarely NFS boot, having them as modules is
> likely
> fine.
> 
Yep. I'm typing this on a laptop that has a single core amd chip and
an re(4) net chip. I actually run i386 FreeBSD on it (although I have
booted an amd64 FreeBSD CD), so I don't care so long as these old net
drivers remain in i386.

rick

> Of the others, only pcn may be relevant enough to stay. At one time
> it was in
> there because one of the virtualization programs (qemu? virtual box?)
> had that
> as its default network config.
> 
> Warner
> 
>