I'd like to axe some drivers

Ian Lepore ian at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 29 20:52:28 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 12:15 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> Catching up ...
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The re interface is very common on recent consumer-grade AMD
> motherboards and it would not be good to break network boot and network
> install on them.

I'm not sure how re found its way into this discussion, but it wasn't on
the original list of proposed deletions, and it wasn't in jmg's list of
100BT nics to leave out of amd64's GENERIC.

-- Ian




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