FCP-101: obsolete driver removal planned for 2019-05-18

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Sat May 11 16:53:43 UTC 2019


> > I've posted a review to remove obsolete 10 and 10/100 Ethernet drivers
> > as previous approved in FCP-101.
> > The following drivers are slated for
> > removal from FreeBSD-HEAD (to be FreeBSD-13):
> > 
> > ae, bm, cs, de, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, sf, sn, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
> 
> OMG ! ed ! That EOL's loads of PC boxes I have (& a show box of
> spare)  that will never be able to upgrade.

I thought ed was already saved from this process, as that is the NE2000
driver, probably the most cloned network device on the planet.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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