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

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, May 11, 2019, 12:52 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

> 11.05.2019 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Do those boxes have 10M-only or 100Mbps variants of ed(4)?
> What kind of hardware do they have (CPU and memory-wise)?
>


There are no 100M ed variants. There are some PC Card variants that have
100M MII connections, but they are limited to about 12Mbps due to bus
limits. Even the PCI ones didn't have 100M mii connections.

Warner

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