FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:50 PM Andy Farkas <andyf at andyit.com.au> wrote:

> On 04/10/2018 07:05, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<<
> > The current list of drivers slated for REMOVAL is:
> >
> > ae, bfe, bm, cs, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, rl, sf, smc, sn,
> > ste, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
> >
> > The current list of drivers that will STAY in the tree is:
> >
> > dc, ffec, fxpl, hme, le, sis, vr, xl
> >
>
> I do not see:
>
> de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>      ether 00:00:c0:bf:6a:e4
>      inet 172.22.2.34 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 172.22.2.47
>      inet6 fe80::200:c0ff:febf:6ae4%de0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>      nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>      media: Ethernet 10base2/BNC
>      status: active
>
> on the list.
>
> FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Jun 30 03:52:15 UTC 2016
> (yes, a very old version, but you know.... if it ain't broke, don't fix it)
>

Are you planning on upgrading?

de should have been on the list to go.... Its a fairly uncommon NIC....

Warner