[heads up] axing AppleTalk and IPX/SPX
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 28 13:35:28 UTC 2013
On 10/28/13 07:42, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Hello!
>
> [Cc to stable@, for wider audience]
>
> The plan is two axe two old networking protocols from FreeBSD head/,
> meaning that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would
> be shipped without them.
>
> 1) AppleTalk
>
> Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[1]. In practice
> had very little use since 90th.
> Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2009[2].
I actually still use this.
> Current status of these protocols in FreeBSD is "compilable". For the
> next couple of years, we plan a lot of changes in networking stack,
> many of which will require changing the protocols, as well. Keeping
> them in compilable state would require additional manpower, but it
> is very probable, that after all the changes they will be utterly
> broken, albeit compilable.
Given that Appletalk currently is in a much state than "compilable", how
serious are these changes?
> P.S. I account any objector as taker of maintainership :)
>
If they are minor, I volunteer for Appletalk. Otherwise, axe away...
-Nathan
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